Obsessed Quotes - Page 34

• I was always obsessed with finding truly researched images to add authenticity, out of that came something totally contemporary and modern. Research is very key to my process because over and over again, reality provides more interesting images than you could have invented.

  Tom Hooper

  Reality, Keys, Interesting

  "Oscar Watch Q &A: Tom Hooper Talks Long Road to King’s Speech". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. November 22, 2010.

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• I think television has become such an interesting place for characters and for incredible storytelling. Half of what I watch are television shows that I've become obsessed with. I just think that it's opened up so much, to be such an interesting and creative medium, and so many wonderful directors and actors are moving to television because it is a great medium for telling stories and for creating a character over a long period of time.

  Elijah Wood

  Moving, Character, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• In terms of success and drive, I think some people are born with it, sometimes certain circumstances push you towards success... trying to prove people wrong. I'm not exactly sure where mine comes from, but, I have this thing inside of me that, when someone tells me that I can't do something, I become obsessed with proving them wrong. It's a weird thing.

  Tyra Banks

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• I really, really love China. To be honest, the food is so amazing! When I first went to Beijing and Shanghai, I actually became obsessed with soup dumplings, and would stand in lines and get them on the street. It was something that I became obsessed with and when I came back to the States, I did all this research for the best soup dumplings in the Los Angeles area and in the New York area and it was amazing to find those Asian dishes that were authentic and I can enjoy them at home.

  Tyra Banks

  New York, Home, Research

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• We don't ask for opinions on our outfit all the time - but for a big of event, like the Emmys, absolutely. I actually sent my sister a picture of the [J Mendel] dress I wore to the Emmys before I chose it, and she was obsessed. She was like, "Oh, I want that." And I said, "Let me wear it first!"

  Kate Mara

  Want, Firsts, Events

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I used to be a bit obsessed by acting but not anymore. I do enjoy acting but I probably enjoy it more now because it's easier. I can't work in the theater because to me it's too serious. It's like being in prison for me. I admire people that can do that but I can't do it. I'd rather live my life and do a bit of acting in between.

  Anthony Hopkins

  People, Acting, Serious

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• I'm obsessed with coffee. My doctor says if I don't cut back, I am going to permanently damage my esophagus. No joke.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Coffee, Cutting, Doctors

  Source: gubelette.tumblr.com

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• I was horrified of the dark. I realized that the only way I could get over that fear was by scaring other people, so I became obsessed with ghost stories, drawing monsters, watching monster movies, sneaking into horror movies, and it's just been the love of my life forever.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Dark, Drawing, Ghost Stories

  "Fantasia 2014: A Gothic Interview With Matthew Gray Gubler". Interview with Shawn Loeffler, www.yellmagazine.com. August 6, 2014.

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• I am really obsessed with finding melodies that just hypnotize you and sink you into a song.

  Hoodie Allen

  Song, Melody, Findings

  Source: www.controltheriot.co.uk

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• I was obsessed with livestock barns, cattle and hogs. I still love that, and I still do that as a hobby.So I'm a strange person.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Hobbies, Barns, Strange Person

  Source: smashinginterviews.com

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• The thing is, my education was music. I knew I'd be playing music no matter what. That's all I thought about, I was obsessed with it. I'm still obsessed with it. It gets the best of me sometimes.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Playing Music, Matter, Sometimes

  Interview with Larry Livermore, larrylivermore.com. August 14, 2009.

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• Everybody who undergoes a death and finds themselves grieving is obsessed with — or maybe overly focused on — the idea that they can’t display self-pity, they have to be strong. Actually there are a lot of reasons why you are going to feel sorry for yourself, but that’s your first concern.

  Joan Didion

  Strong, Sorry, Grieving

  "National Book Award". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2006.

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• I was so obsessed with football that you could say I was taking the goal home with me at night. And then one day the system fell apart.

  Oliver Kahn

  Football, Home, Night

  "'Goalkeepers Need an Element of Insanity'". Interview with Lothar Gorris and Dirk Kurbjuweit, www.spiegel.de. May 15, 2008.

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• The Islamic world is obsessed with the notion of strong leaders. This is a mistake. We don't need powerful leaders, but rather unconventional, progressive thinkers with the courage to open our minds.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Strong, Powerful, Mistake

  "They Live in a Bleak, Devastated Universe". Interview with Erich Follath and Romain Leick, www.spiegel.de. November 14, 2005.

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• Facebook has this famous poster that says move fast and break things. But at the same time they manage to be obsessed with quality.

  Sam Altman

  Moving, Quality, Posters

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• It's easy to move fast or be obsessed with quality, but the trick is you have to do both at a startup.

  Sam Altman

  Moving, Quality, Easy

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• Most investors are obsessed with the market size today and they don't think about how the market is going to evolve.

  Sam Altman

  Thinking, Today, Size

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• I'm always trying to ask myself both "Who am I as an individual?" and "What are the cultural forces that have made me the person that I am?" How can I understand myself as a cultural creature as well as an individual? I'm really obsessed with that question, and always asking my students to consider it.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Always Trying, Asking, Students

  Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

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• As a boy I was obsessed with Egypt and Egyptology. I'm convinced it's not that uncommon. A lot of 10 or 12 year old boys become obsessed with Egypt. It's a bit like young girls and horses.

  Bill Henson

  Girl, Horse, Boys

  "Dreamscapes and Sensory Experience – An Interview with Bill Henson". Interview with Sabine Mirlesse, www.americansuburbx.com. June 15, 2015.

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• I like being able to do anything. I think that's healthy, doing anything and everything, rather than just getting completely obsessed with one particular genre or particular kind of work.

  Dave McKean

  Thinking, Healthy, Anything And Everything

  Source: asitecalledfred.com

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• I was so obsessed with 2Pac. He was one of the first rappers I heard. "Dear Mama" was one of the first tracks I ever memorized.

  Shwayze

  Rapper, Track, Firsts

  Source: upc.fm

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• I've always been fascinated, obsessed even, with books and TV shows about unsolved murders, cold cases, forensic science, mysteries, and so on. Many times when I get inspiration for my work, it's from something in one of these books or TV shows, or perhaps some newspaper article about a specific case.

  Scott Heim

  Book, Inspiration, Tv Shows

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• Because you are obsessed with the idea of past, present, and future, you are forced to think of reincarnations as strung out one before the other. Indeed we speak of past lives because you are used to the time sequence concept... You have dominant egos, all part of an inner identity, dominant in various existences. But the separate existences exist simultaneously. Only the egos involved make the time distinction... a thousand years in your past or in your future - all exist now.

  Jane Roberts

  Healing, Past, Thinking

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• I am so crazy with my music taste and I'm so .... I mean, I'll listen to a song. I'll become obsessed with it and then I'm on to the next one. It's just very inconsistent.

  Taylor Lautner

  Song, Crazy, Mean

  "Taylor Lautner Interview, Twilight Breaking Dawn". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• I think I've been mildly obsessed with my hair. I don't think I have a hugely adversarial relationship with it. One my essay is about my decision to keep coloring my hair once it started to go gray, but once I wrote the essay - once the book was in production - I decided to go gray.

  Elizabeth Benedict

  Book, Thinking, Hair

  Source: nytlive.nytimes.com

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