Word: egos
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...killings, he may have wanted to remind everyone of his handiwork. Also, the local media were reporting on Beattie's forthcoming Nightmare in Wichita. "He couldn't stand somebody else writing his story," says psychologist Samuel Harrell, who consulted on the BTK case in the 1970s. "He's all ego." But he was not trying to get caught--he didn't think he could be caught. All the poems and puzzles he created over the years to taunt the police were peppered with clues to his identity, like a word search he sent to a TV station last May packed...
...ego clashes on the set? There's no sitting around. There's no time for someone to be flinging around their ego. They wouldn't last very long. But it's incredibly creative. Michael Chiklis and I were saying the other day that we feel like Ferraris in a garage. When the job starts, you just wonder how many gears they'll ask of you. We [actors] only have the process, and if that's not full of creative and challenging stuff, you may as well be doing something else...
Letting a little air out of Larry’s ego in front of the press, Wessel says, was one of the weapons that Rubin used to “prod Larry into being wiser about how he treated people in public...
Wedding Present made a name for themselves on the strength of their bitter, bitter break-up songs, so in light of the album’s biographical circumstances, the name switch comes across potentially as therapy. Their classics have always hit the right mix of spite, frustration, and wounded ego, as opposed to the more confident and musically assured catalog of Cinerama. But honestly, David, it’s a little quick to change the name—at least until you up the distortion a little more and ditch the strings...
...witnessed the emergence of the new rootless, ego-driven individual as it broke free from old close-knit societies and became afflicted with craving, pride, jealousy and hatred while acting upon its newly expanded world. But unlike such modern thinkers as Hobbes and Marx, the Buddha didn't assume that a model of society was needed that could contain the rampaging egos of human beings. He proposed none of the massive restructurings of society familiar to us in our own times: revolution, socialism, democracy, capitalism or regime change. He insisted that suffering is a mental experience, born from desire, attachment...