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“Now I am obsessed with collecting Platypus paraphernalia.”

“'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.”

Men Ideas Use Term Mad Obsession Obsessed

Book:Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive

Source: Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive

“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.”

Trying Kind Materials Obsession Storytelling Obsessed Visuals Visual Storytelling

Book:Interviews

Source: Interviews

“I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.”

Years School High School Obsession Obsessed Macs Fleetwood Mac

Author:Joanna Newsom

“I was never really obsessed with the whole guy thing to begin with.”

Whole Guy Obsession Obsessed

Author:Beverley Mitchell

“I'm obsessed with books.”

Book Obsession Obsessed

Author:David Sylvian

“Unattractive people are more obsessed with looks.”

People Looks Obsession Obsessed Unattractive

Author:Rae Dawn Chong

“Americans are somehow obsessed with her, and something about me hit a spot with people in Japan.”

People Obsession Spots Obsessed Japan

Author:Utada Hikaru

“I was obsessed with Elvis Presley when I was little.”

Littles Obsession Obsessed

Author:Gina Gershon

“The West remains obsessed by the caste system.”

Remains West Obsession Obsessed Castes Caste System

Author:Francois Gautier

“I'm really obsessed with the past.”

Past Obsession Obsessed

Author:Fisher Stevens

“I'm kind of insane when it comes to music, a little obsessed.”

Kind Littles Music Obsession Insane Obsessed

Author:Elijah Wood

“I've been obsessed with clothes since I was a little boy.”

Littles Boys Clothes Obsession Obsessed Little Boys

Author:Robert Vaughn

“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.”

Needs Satisfied Obsession Manage Obsessed Good Life Unsatisfied

Author:Kjell Magne Bondevik

“My obsessions used to be my protectors, but now they have taken me prisoner.”

Used Taken Obsession Used To Be Prisoner Protector

Author:Mason Cooley

“During an intense period of lab work, the outside world vanishes and the obsession is total. Sleep is when you can curl up on the accelerator floor for an hour.”

World Science Hours Sleep Periods Experiments Intense Obsession Outside World Labs Curls

Author:Leon M. Lederman

“"Half genius and half buffoon," Freeman Dyson ... wrote. ... [Richard] Feynman struck him as uproariously American-unbuttoned and burning with physical energy. It took him a while to realize how obsessively his new friend was tunneling into the very bedrock of modern science.”

Science Energy Realizing Half Modern Genius Obsession Burning Modern Science New Friends Freeman Bedrock Buffoons Richard Feynman

Book:Genius: the life and science of Richard Feynman

Source: Genius: the life and science of Richard Feynman

“I do not know what has caused MacKinnon to become, and, more surprisingly, to remain, so obsessed with pornography, and so zealous for censorship. But let us not sacrifice our civil liberties on the altar of her obsession.”

Knows Government Liberty Sacrifice Obsession Obsessed Censorship Pornography Altars Civil Liberties Zealous

Author:Richard Posner

“This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing.”

Self Kindness Waste Appreciate Dancing Meaningful Obsession Surviving Nurturing Self Obsession

Author:Tilda Swinton

“Fundamentalist Christians are my sisters and brothers, my family and friends, my oldest colleagues and coworkers. But I fear their love for the nation has become an obsession to reshape it in their own image.”

Christian Nations Brother My Family Obsession My Sister Colleagues Family And Friends Brothers And Sisters Notable Fundamentalist Coworker

Author:Mel White

“The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.”

Spiritual Form Left Space Rooms Development Machines Performances Impact Obsession Aesthetic Intuitive

Author:Arthur Erickson

“Kobe was hell-bent on surpassing Jordan as the greatest player in the game. His obsession with Michael was striking. When we played in Chicago that season, I orchestrated a meeting between the two of them, thinking that Michael might help shift Kobe’s attitude toward selfless teamwork. After they shook hands, the first words out of Kobe’s mouth were, ‘You know I can kick your ass one on one.’”

Thinking Knows Firsts I Can Two Helping Hands Might Games Attitude Hell Player Mouths Seasons Meetings Obsession Ass Kicks Teamwork Chicago Selfless Bent Jordan One On One Surpassing

Author:Phil Jackson

“Dostoevsky wrote fiction about identity, moral value, death, will, sexual vs. spiritual love, greed, freedom, obsession, reason, faith, suicide. And he did it without ever reducing his characters to mouthpieces or his books to tracts. His concern was always what it is to be a human being—that is, how to be an actual *person*, someone whose life is informed by values and principles, instead of just an especially shrewd kind of self-preserving animal.”

“Positive obsession is about not being able to stop just because you're afraid and full of doubts. Positive obsession is dangerous. It's about not being able to stop at all.”

Able Doubt Dangerous Obsession

Book:Bloodchild and Other Stories

Source: Bloodchild and Other Stories

“I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.”

Writing Order Obsession

Author:Cynthia Ozick

“Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language or code. Myth is the "morality" that the ineffable puts upon us, our unaccountable imperatives, our inexplicably selective clarity and obscurity, the mortal one-sidedness of our talents and wits, the passion and apathy that make such a transient passage through our hapless minds; that weave a pattern of fatality others will see before we do. Myth is distinctively human or sublime higher-order instinct, the "reason" in culture that reason knows not of.”

“Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn't easy. But you can't live without it either. Talent is only 10 per cent. The rest is obsession.”

Easy Talent Poet Partners Invisible Obsession Cents

Author:Selima Hill

“I'm fond of observing how obsession is the most durable form of intellectual capital.”

Form Intellectual Obsession Observing Intellectual Capital

Book:Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity

Source: Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity

“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.”

Ends Form Desire Goes On Obsession Miserable Immaculate Forms Of Love

Author:Angel Haze

“Every library answers a twofold need, which is often also a twofold obsession: that of conserving certain objects (books) and that of organizing them in certain ways”

Way Needs Book Certain Answers Objects Library Obsession Conserving

Author:Georges Perec

“I've always been intrigued with the male characters in novels like 'Pride and Prejudice' such as Mr. Darcy, and this poem is part of a series of poems that explore desire and obsessions. The poems have been sitting in a drawer for a few years, so I decided to dust them off and work on them again since I have not written a new poem in more than three years. I'm not sure anything will become of the series, but at least it gives me something to work on in a period where I feel very uncreative.”

Giving Feels Years Has Beens Character Desire Three Novel Written Pride Periods Sitting Decided Give Me Prejudice Series Males Obsession Dust Not Sure Three Years Intrigued Drawers Darcy

Author:Victoria Chang

“I think the camera was always my obsession, the camera movements. Because for me it's the most important thing in the move, the camera, because without the camera, film is just a stage or television - nothing.”

Thinking Important Film Moving Stage Movement Television Cameras Important Things Obsession

Author:Dario Argento

“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.”

Want Worst Balls Agree Obsession Tension

Author:Enrique Pena Nieto

“Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It's a path of knowledge, and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get lost on the path. And then you find yourself again.”

Self Sometimes Lost Acting Path Discipline Obsession Finding Yourself Self Knowledge

Author:Toni Servillo

“My personal credo as a libertarian conservative: I think all attempts to reform your fellow-citizens or tell them how to live their lives are arrogant and tyrannical. THAT'S why I oppose Leftism. I want people to be free to manage their own lives. Reform is just authoritarianism. People are not playthings for anybody's theories or obsessions.”

People Thinking Want Politics Theory Citizens Fellows Conservative Libertarian Obsession Manage Reform Arrogant Authoritarianism Credo

Author:John Ray

“Carefully observe the natural laws in operation in the world around you, and live by them. From following them, you will learn the morality of modesty, moderation, compassion, and consideration (not just one society's rules and regulations), the wisdom of seeing things as they are (not of merely collecting "facts" about them), and the happiness of being in harmony with the Way (which has nothing to do with self-righteous "spiritual" obsessions and fanaticism). And you will live lightly, spontaneously, and effortlessly.”

“My whole artistic life has been devoted to battling myself and my ability to externalize my deepest emotions. As I have gotten older, the work has become more direct, perhaps reflecting the fact that for the first time in my life I feel really free. I have been fascinated with wings all my life. I have had an obsession with transcendence, the need to push forward and metaphorically fly.”

Needs Feels Firsts Has Beens Whole Facts Ability Emotion Photography First Time Direct Wings Photographer Obsession Artistic Fascinated Devoted Transcendence Reflecting Artistic Life

Author:Joyce Tenneson

“And yes, there definitely are many good desires. For example, without the desire for food we would not stay alive. It is when our desire becomes an unquenchable craving or obsession, or causes us to do harm to ourselves or others, that it creates suffering and unhappiness. If you have ever been hurt because you tied your happiness or well-being to a person, place, opinion, self-identity, behavior, or goal, then you have firsthand experience of desire.”

Ifs Wells Persons Self Desire Suffering Causes Goal Hurt Opinion Alive Example Identity Behavior Harm Obsession Well Being Unhappiness Tied Craving Staying Alive Self Identity Been Hurt

Author:Don Altman

“If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness as much as hatred and death.”

Ifs Writing Memories Hatred Obsession Theme Forgetfulness

Book:From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences

Source: From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences

“I'm obsessed with shopping. I'll get these urges to buy, like to shop for stuff on the Internet. I search for all kinds of weird gizmos I could get.”

Kind Stuff Internet Obsession All Kinds Obsessed Shops Urges Shopping

Author:Tom Felton

“Simple ideas become obsessions, almost like a meditation.”

Ideas Simple Meditation Obsession Simple Ideas

Author:Mary Heilmann

“I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.”

I Can Obsession Curse Compulsion

Author:Juliana Hatfield

“In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer.... offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living." In our age of bottomless self-love and obsession with our own feelings, Krauthammer suggested, "The too-examined life is not worth living either.”

Self Feelings Age Life Is Self Love Speech Versions Obsession Worth Living Columnists Life Is Not Worth Living Examined Life Unexamined Life

Author:John Leo

“What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being forgotten, this debased coquetry?”

Writing Stills Book Forgotten Obsession Fifty Proliferation Coquetry

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.”

Believe Made Night Imagination Sleep White Impossible Shadow Garden Wide Senses Obsession Desert Emptiness Nerves Palms Garments Ardor Berserk

Author:Andre Gide

“Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to be an obsession.”

Wells Has Beens Important Enough Known Concerned Hunger Obsession

Book:A Life in Letters

Source: A Life in Letters

“Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.”

Security Future Obsession Granted

Book:The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

“It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.”

Whole Obsession Warmth Veins Prey Venus

Author:Jean Racine

“I think one of the downsides of the sort of obsession with romantic love and personal fulfillment is that the plain fact of the matter is that those feelings don't last for ever and so they better be replaced and reinforced by things that do.”

Thinking Matter Facts Feelings Lasts Obsession Fulfillment Romantic Love Replaced Personal Fulfillment

Author:Mary Archer

“I feel like there's an obsession with pace right now in theater, with things being very fast and very witty and very loud, and I think we're all so freaked out about theater keeping audiences interested because everybody's so freaked out about theater becoming irrelevant.”

Thinking Feels Audience Becoming Right Now Theater Witty Obsession Loud Pace Irrelevant Very Witty

Author:Annie Baker

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