Word: ego
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...Orwellian beatification of Bush won’t change the reality that we are tripping on our superpower ego, and nobody will be there to catch us when we fall...
...there anything special about Harvard graduates? Mathews wasn’t quick to offer any ego- boosting praise, but he did admit that “we tend to know more about history and science than other people” and we might often read newspapers at a higher rate...
...write brilliantly are turned away by Harvard’s big, bad creative writing program. But spurned applicants should hearten up. After all, when was the last time that angst and rejection did any real harm to a great writer’s genius—or ego...
...MUST HAVE A HUGE EGO TO THINK THAT YOU'RE A SUCCESSFUL DIRECTOR EVEN THOUGH YOU'VE NEVER MADE A MOVIE THAT GROSSED $100 MILLION DOMESTIC. Well, I tell you, maybe I do. [Laughs.] I'm not the easiest person in the world to get along with. But I'm old. Maybe there's a few other executives who don't think like this guy--who will give me some extra money to make a picture or two in the next 10 years, if I make it through. It's a different world now for me too, because I have...
Each Monday night, in a therapist's office somewhere in Los Angeles, a different George Lopez story unfolds. There, the real-life comedian who plays his eponymous alter ego also learns about himself a little at a time. He learns how to be part of a family--his idea of bonding with his 6-year-old daughter used to be to turn on the tube and sit in silence. He learns to forgive his grandmother, who raised him after his mother abandoned him but didn't show him affection or even celebrate his birthday. Lopez, 41, still tears up when...