Nelson Searcy Quotes
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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You can bend, but never break. Stay Unbreakable!
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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If you could wean yourself off of oil and not be dependent on the Middle East, obviously it's better.
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I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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My great-grandfather came here as a refugee from the pogrom in Ukraine.
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Kids are very cruel to each other.
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You don't want me to sing. I could do a really bad karaoke scene, if I had to, but I'd probably choose to rap.
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Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.
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I hear many extra-musical things somehow in Coltrane.
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I'm a conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.
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When I think about my father, the first image that comes to mind is holding his hand as he drove me to the train station six weeks before he died; I had never noticed how beautiful his hands were until I saw them, for the first and last time, entwined in mine.
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Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ... but nobody is the author.
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Again, mercy is literally love in action.
