quotes about Obsession
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The form is always the measure of the obsession.
-- Alberto Giacometti -
I don't like Paradise, as they probably don't have obsessions there.
-- Alda Merini -
Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.
-- Alexander Pushkin -
Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.
-- Alfred StieglitzSource : Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Whelan, Sarah Greenough (2000). “Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes”
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I have, at times, been absorbed in my work to the point of complete self-oblivion. Once I worked for thirty-six hours without a break - to complete exhaustion; and while I was in the middle of it I didn't even notice.
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It's a silly thing, but I like to understand people through their obsessions.
-- Amber DermontSource : Amber Dermont (2012). “The Starboard Sea: A Novel”, p.65, Macmillan
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In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.
-- Andres Serrano -
An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions...
-- Andres Serrano -
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I have this desire to have this immaculate form of love that really doesn't exist, so my obsession goes on through life and I never find it and I end up miserable. But it makes me a better writer.
-- Angel HazeSource : "Rapper Angel Haze on religion, rape and survival" by Alex Macpherson, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2013.
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I'm not leaving until you tell me why you followed me. I know I'm a fascinating guy, but this is starting to feel like an unhealthy obsession.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
Every time feels like my first time. And I just find that the process of it feeds into one's own self-obsession.
-- Ben Harper -
I was never really obsessed with the whole guy thing to begin with.
-- Beverley Mitchell -
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I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.
-- Brian De PalmaSource : Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.177, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession.
-- Bruce Lee -
I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America.
-- Cameron Crowe -
The time has come to challenge our obsession with doing everything more quickly.
-- Carl HonoreSource : Carl Honoré (2004). “In praise of slow: how a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed”, A.A. Knopf Canada
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All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.
-- Catherine Deneuve -
Obsession with self is the motif of our time.
-- Charles Krauthammer -
To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions.
-- Charles Simic -
Any obsession is dangerous.
-- Christina RicciSource : "Hidden Depths". Interview with Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2004.
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I liked movies so much that they became an obsession. I am still trying to kick the habit.
-- Christoffer BoeSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.
-- Christopher Durang -
I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They're so earnest about it. But that's true of so many things.
-- Christopher GuestSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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duty, the most indecent of all obsessions, was only another name for love.
-- Colleen McCulloughSource : Colleen McCullough (1999). “Three Complete Novels”, Wings
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I have this obsession with really cool, old books.
-- Constance ZimmerSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.
-- Cynthia Ozick -
What's happened to marriage? The wedding-industrial complex. Brides get swept up in this world of obsession - it has to be your perfect day.
-- Dave Barry -
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I still am a geek, I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I see no shame in having an unhealthy obsession with something.
-- David Tennant -
The problem with fame is you no longer belong to you. You lose your persona and become the object of other people's obsession.
-- Dionne WarwickSource : "This much I know: Dionne Warwick" with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2012.
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People have always been obsessed by celebrities. There are just more outlets and opportunities to make a living exploiting that obsession nowadays.
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I think the obsession with wanting to change yourself is crazy over the top.
-- Downtown Julie BrownSource : "Julie Brown: Being funny in the face of tragedy is kind of demented". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. October 20, 2010.
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I am overrun, infested with a menagerie of desires.
-- Elizabeth Smart -
Do you agree that when theres tension and an obsession to want to hit the ball is when you hit it worst? You have to be loose.
-- Enrique Pena Nieto -
I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.
-- Eric KripkeSource : "TV.com Q&A: Supernatural creator Eric Kripke". Interview with Tim Surette, www.tv.com. January 10, 2008.
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A public outcry usually masks a private obsession.
-- Eric Schlosser -
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I'm fond of observing how obsession is the most durable form of intellectual capital.
-- Eve Kosofsky SedgwickSource : Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Adam Frank (2003). “Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity”, p.2, Duke University Press
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I'm really obsessed with the past.
-- Fisher StevensSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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People see everything through the lens of their obsessions.
-- Francine ProseSource : Francine Prose (2012). “Goldengrove”, p.126, Atlantic Books Ltd
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The West remains obsessed by the caste system.
-- Francois Gautier -
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Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
-- Franz Kafka -
Our Western science, ever since the 17th century, has been obsessed with the notion of control, of man dominating nature. This obsession has led to disaster.
-- Fritjof Capra -
I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
-- Gary Oldman -
People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities.
-- Geoffrey RushSource : "'Elizabeth' brings queen's life to big screen". www.cnn.com. November 04, 1998.
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The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.
-- George A. Sheehan -
The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
-- George Sand -
Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.
-- Georges Bernanos -
We are obsessed with image. I don't think we should take it that seriously.
-- Geri Halliwell -
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I was obsessed with Elvis Presley when I was little.
-- Gina Gershon -
I don't see how you can create and not have the feeling that it is the most important, all-consuming thing.
-- Grace Hartigan -
I still have an insane drive to create and express myself, and it'll never stop because I don't know how to stop it.
-- Graham Nash -
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Writing is not hard work, it is simply an obsession ...
-- Hallie Burnett -
My biggest obsession is to show Africans and the world who the people of Africa really are,
-- Hugh Masekela -
And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.
-- Ian Fleming -
I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.
-- Illeana DouglasSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another
-- Irvine Welsh -
..the writer's obsession - the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest degree of precision.
-- Ivan KlÃma -
Gunn, like me, has a James Bond obsession. He would love to be James Bond, and it's a great role that I would love to be, someday.
-- J. August RichardsSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.
-- J. J. Abrams -
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I didn't think it was fair to pretend to give of myself when I was so selfishly consumed with my own drives.
-- Jackie Mason -
I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.
-- Jacqueline Bisset -
Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.
-- Jacques Lacan -
Writing is putting one's obsessions in order.
-- Jean Grenier -
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Clothes became my attraction and obsession early. I wasn't so interested in dressing myself because I was not my object of desire.
-- Jean Paul Gaultier -
It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.
-- Jean Racine -
I was still too young to know that there is no such thing as love without trust. There is only obsession and co-dependence.
-- Jenna JamesonSource : Julian May (2013). “The Many-Coloured Land”, p.52, Pan Macmillan
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Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.
-- Jeremy Irvine -
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I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.
-- Jim Dine -
I think that America has an obsession with history, really.
-- JJ FeildSource : "JJ Feild, Gentleman Spy". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 14, 2013.
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Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.
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I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.
-- Joanna Newsom -
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I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't.
-- Joely FisherSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.
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You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.
-- John Irving -
I am almost sick and giddy with the quantity of things in my head, all tempting and wanting to be worked out.
-- John Ruskin -
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Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.
-- John Steinbeck -
My most favorite entrance music of all time it's that, "You're my obsession, you're my obsession" song.
-- Joseph BruceSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad.
-- Judith Perelman Rossner -
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I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.
-- Juliana Hatfield -
When you're in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual
-- Julianna Baggott -
I got my undergrad in Creative Writing, and then I didn't get my Masters in obsession, because I figured I already had that covered.
-- Julie Powell -
I'm not obsessed by looks. I think you can become a prisoner of your own image.
-- Juliette Binoche -
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I was obsessed, and like most obsessed people, I was the last one to know it.
-- Kate Bornstein -
While obsession with one’s personal appearance is a sign of being a vacant prat, total oblivion to it is a sign of mental illness.
-- Kate Cann -
We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach.
-- Kjell Magne Bondevik -
Glam culture is ultimately rooted in obsession, and those of us who are truly devoted and loyal to the lifestyle of glamour are masters of its history. Or, to put it more elegantly, we are librarians.
-- Lady Gaga -
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In the U.K., there is a sort of obsession with class.
-- Laura CarmichaelSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.
-- Leon Edel -
What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far.
-- Leon Wieseltier -
Ever since I was a little kid I was obsessed with films, and I always wanted to make them
-- Liev Schreiber -
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A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.
-- Lucian Freud -
The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.
-- Lucian Freud -
Rather than a profession, photography has always been a passion for me, a passion closer to an obsession.
-- Marc RiboudSource : Interview with Jonathan Blaustein, aphotoeditor.com. September 23, 2013.
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I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.
-- Margaret Atwood -
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I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.
-- Marguerite YoungSource : Marguerite Young (1999). “Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs”, Knopf
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If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.
-- Marguerite Young -
We are addicted to money and our obsession with it is leading to the destruction of our planet.
-- Mark Boyle -