Obsessed Quotes - Page 25

• As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.

  Anthony Minghella

  Song, Teenager, Writing

  Interview with Robert J. Elisberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1999.

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• Certainly, I know what it's like to be obsessed. I haven't always been there for my children. They could reach me, but I wasn't always there. But, you know, that's not necessarily anything to do with being a writer. I mean, a taxi driver could have the same problem... Maybe.

  Henning Mankell

  Children, Mean, Problem

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• I'm obsessed with food!

  Sofia Vergara

  "Sofia Vergara Spills All: The Smurfs and Modern Family Star Opens Up About Being a Young Mom and Surviving Divorce and Cancer". Interview with Jancee Dunn, www.redbookmag.com. August 16, 2011.

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• I was always just kind of obsessed with guitar, even before I started playing.

  St. Vincent

  Guitar, Kind

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• And if I'm honest about it, I was obsessed with Nirvana and Pearl Jam. This is like '92, right in the throes of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I think I probably wanted to be Kurt Cobain.

  St. Vincent

  Thinking, Jam, Pearls

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• I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.

  Sam Waterston

  News, Tvs, Watches

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• I had always fantasized about going to the Pyramids, the Great Wall; I've always been sort of obsessed with the whole notion of Everest.

  Justin Zackham

  Wall, Pyramids, Notion

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• Sports biography at its best. Rich in period detail, anecdote, and fresh perspective, Strong Boy paints both the good and the bad sides of success, as America's growing celebrity culture turned a simple Irish American gladiator into a national, in fact international hero. A very human story with profound parallels for our sports-obsessed culture today!

  Nigel Hamilton

  Sports, Strong, Hero

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• I love Mary Poppins - when I was little I was obsessed with it.

  Willa Holland

  Littles, Mary

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• I can't quite remember the exact moment when I became obsessed with writing a play about the seemingly endless war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but I knew that I wanted to somehow tell the stories of the Congolese women caught in the cross-fire.

  Lynn Nottage

  War, Writing, Fire

  "Picking Through the Ruins: How Do We Stop The DRC’s War Against Women" by Lynn Nottage, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2009.

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• Being obsessed by goals is bad for you. You should set goals, even ambitious goals, regularly. But focus on them only to the extent that they give you direction.

  Srikumar Rao

  Giving, Goal, Focus

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• There is a phase in the life of every copy editor when she is obsessed with hyphens.

  Mary Norris

  Editors, Phases, Hyphens

  Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.99, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just comedy, computers and chess club; those were my big things.

  Chris Hardwick

  Sports, Play, Long

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• Exposed! shines a harsh light on the myriad horrors of modern society and reports back from the fearful frontlines with wicked wit and paranoid power. From the murky waters of New Orleans to the scarred psyches of our own image-obsessed existence, Exposed! is the last headline we get to read before reality comes tumbling down.

  Jeremy Robert Johnson

  Reality, Psych, Tumbling Down

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• I've always been obsessed about how people choose - or are destined - for the paths they take.

  Julie Salamon

  People, Path, Destined

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• As a technologist, I'm obsessed with searching for the next killer app.

  Maynard Webb

  Killers, Next, Apps

  "The Next Killer App: Work" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 24, 2010.

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• I'm obsessed with getting married, but I don't even have a boyfriend.

  Marlen Esparza

  Married, Getting Married

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• One day when I was like 9, I heard the Beatles on the radio, and I asked my dad who they were. He told me they were the best band in the world, and I became obsessed. He started giving me their albums in sequential order, and I listened to them - and only them - until I was probably in high school.

  Lukas Haas

  Dad, School, Order

  "Actor Lukas Haas dons a hospital gown for MCR clip, works on debut LP" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. October 19, 2006.

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• A man obsessed with failure has succeeded better than others in portraying it.

  Erland Josephson

  Men, Portraying

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• A person obsessed with the need to be happy will never be so. The obsession is the obstruction.

  Vernon Howard

  Needs, Obsession, Obstruction

  "Esoteric Encyclopedia of Eternal Knowledge". Book by V. A. Howard, 1974.

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• Listing What You Have: Internalize the attitude that regardless of how many things you do not have, you can still be happy and grateful if you keep your focus on what you do have. Make a list of possessions, talents, and good qualities you have and whenever you catch yourself becoming obsessed with something you lack, review your list.

  Zelig Pliskin

  Gratitude, Attitude, Grateful

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• I also write plays, so I understand the writers mind, and how obsessed you can get writing.

  Jeff Daniels

  Writing, Play, Mind

  "Jeff Daniels Talks RV". movieweb.com. April 24, 2006.

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• I did The Seagull, the Chekhov play, on Broadway, a couple of years ago, and I had done it in London, and I became completely obsessed with the character, Nina, that I played in that. She's an actress. I couldn't find a play after that, that I wanted to do, because I couldn't think of doing anything else. Every part is a disappointment, once you've done that part.

  Carey Mulligan

  Couple, Disappointment, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• I was pretty much a mess out of primary school. I really experienced a lot more of that stuff from the ages of seven to twelve, where there was a really popular girl at my school, and I was obsessed with her, like you'd go to jail for that stuff today. I'm so embarrassed to say this, but I was in tears one day, because I couldn't sit next to her.

  Charlize Theron

  Girl, School, Jail

  Source: collider.com

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• I was obsessed with Agatha Christie in sixth grade.

  Christopher Bollen

  Sixth Grade, Grades, Christie

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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