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• I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women.

  Eve Arnold

  Children, Poverty, Birth

  Eve Arnold (1976). “The Unretouched Woman”, Random House (NY)

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• It always interests me how obsessed people are about age.

  Amanda Burton

  People, Age, Interest

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• Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays.

  Annie Baker

  Writing, Play, Personality

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• Discussing the possibilities of extraterrestrial life: I would love it even if they were short, sullen, grumpy and sexually obsessed. But there just isn't any good evidence.

  Carl Sagan

  Life, Sullen, Grumpy

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• I have obsessed about my weight in some sort of way all my life. I used to write in my journal what I weighed every day.

  Valerie Bertinelli

  Writing, Weight, Way

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• We are a categorically obsessed culture, where we have to compartmentalize everything in reference to another thing, like, 'What does it sound like? Does it sound like this?

  Darren Criss

  Sound, Doe, Culture

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• I was a 'Planet of the Apes'-obsessed kid.

  Justin Cronin

  Kids, Apes, Planets

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• I grew up 60 minutes way from Richmond, in Charlottesville, Virginia and, as a child, I was obsessed with the Civil War. I used to do re-enactments and all that stuff.

  Billy Campbell

  Children, War, Virginia

  "Billy Campbell Talks KILLING LINCOLN, Taking on the Iconic Figure, Putting on the Hat and Reenacting the Assassination, Plus Season 3 of AMC’s THE KILLING". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 14, 2013.

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• An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it.

  Alejandro Amenabar

  Distance, Mean, Thinking

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• I have nothing in my life besides my work. I am obsessed with it. I leave my house only when I'm forced to.

  Asia Argento

  House

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.

  Dan Auerbach

  Growing Up, Mean, Thinking

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• American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Hero, People, Important

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• I'm obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting your time reading books.

  Jimmy Carr

  Book, Reading, Parent

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• Othello' was my first Shakespearean discovery. I was obsessed with drama at school, and I studied the play for my English GCSE. Desdemona is the part that everyone wants, but Iago's wife Emilia is the one I've always been drawn to.

  Michelle Dockery

  Drama, School, Discovery

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I always want to do different things. I'm always obsessed with trying to do different things.

  Tom DeLonge

  Trying, Different, Want

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• I love 'Breathless,' and 'Paris, Texas,' and 'Badlands.' I was obsessed with those films in my teens. I remember watching 'Badlands' and being amazed that there were these scenes in which nobody said anything and the silence told the whole story.

  Agyness Deyn

  Texas, Paris, Silence

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was in the 9th grade, on Halloween night, when you're supposed to go and out and burn your city, my mom made me go to 'Cirque du Soleil.' I was kicking and screaming. This girl came out onstage, and I was instantly mesmerized. I dropped out of school and became obsessed with her. I saw the show, like, 70 times.

  Troy Garity

  Girl, Mom, Halloween

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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 Guest

  People, World, Obsession

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think it would be wrong to consider 'Ashes and Fire' a love album. The record is obsessed with time. I believe that there is a kinder view of the self on this record.

  Ryan Adams

  Believe, Thinking, Fire

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Why are you obsessed with fighting? Stick to fishing from now on!

  Tim Rice

  Fighting, Fishing, Sticks

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• I wouldn't say that I'm particularly bothered or obsessed with detail.

  Wes Anderson

  Details, Bothered

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm obsessed with 'Thelma and Louise,' and therefore obsessed with Callie Khouri who wrote that movie.

  Connie Britton

  Thelma And Louise

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• I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.

  Lanford Wilson

  Atoms, Bombs, Firsts

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• I learned about HeLa cells in my first basic biology class, and I just became completely obsessed with them from that point on.

  Rebecca Skloot

  Cells, Class, Firsts

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• I’ve become obsessed with the idea of reconciliation, particularly reconciliation with nature but with people too, of course. I think that travel has been a kind of search for that, a pursuit for unity and even an attempt to contribute to a sense of unity.

  Jan Morris

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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