Obsession Quotes - Page 23

• I was obsessed with being rich and famous.

  Paul Lynde

  Comedy, Rich, Obsessed

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• My mom passed on her obsession of all things antique or vintage. I love to go thrift store shopping or explore any sort of garage sale. Treasure hunting is a family passion.

  Zoey Deutch

  Mom, Passion, Hunting

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• Until we can insert a USB into our ear and download our thoughts, drawing remains the best way of getting visual information on to the page. I draw as a collagist, juxtaposing images and styles of mark-making from many sources. The world I draw is the interior landscape of my own personal obsessions and of cultures I have absorbed and adapted, from Latvian folk art to Japanese screens. I lasso thoughts with a pen. I draw a stave church or someone from Hello! magazine not because I want to replicate how they look, but because of the meaning they bring to the work.

  Grayson Perry

  Art, Drawing, Style

  "Grayson Perry lassos thoughts with a pen" by Grayson Perry, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.

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• I'm not obsessed by how I look or with being reed thin, but I do think that as a woman in my 50s, I have 40 years ahead. Looking after yourself goes hand in hand with looking good.

  Linda Evans

  Thinking, Hands, Years

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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

  Body, Very Sad, Obsessed

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• It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.

  Helen Dunmore

  Tyrants, Opponents, Want

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• Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that.

  Christopher Durang

  College, Film, Obsessed

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• Further, I'm obsessed with how language contorts and creates bodies.

  Peter Sotos

  Body, Language, Obsessed

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• I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't.

  Joely Fisher

  Cooking, Looks, Easy

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

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• It's a fantastic thing to take the risk of getting so close to your desire, expressing your obsession so absolutely.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Risk, Desire, Fantastic

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• Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.

  Andre Bazin

  Photography, Art, Plastic

  André Bazin (2004). “What Is Cinema?”, p.12, Univ of California Press

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• 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.

  Annie Baker

  Witty, Thinking, Pace

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• The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.

  Vince Cable

  Real, Recovery, Long

  "George Osborne's campaign against Ed Balls hit by fresh Libor revelation" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2012.

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• I'm always wondering: Have all these time-saving devices actually saved us any time, or have they just created a million fetishes and obsessions that keep us from the quiet half hour we should be taking to sit and do nothing every day?

  Mark Feuerstein

  Half, Saving, Quiet

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• In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.

  Ethan Hawke

  Self, Perfection, Hollywood

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• Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Determination, Matter

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• The mother's love for her child is very strong in Korean society - almost on the borderline of being an obsession.

  Bong Joon-ho

  Mother, Strong, Children

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• I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.

  Eric Kripke

  Urban Legends, Lifelong, Folklore

  "TV.com Q&A: Supernatural creator Eric Kripke". Interview with Tim Surette, www.tv.com. January 10, 2008.

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• I once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved it.

  Miuccia Prada

  Lace, Has Beens

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The frenzy of the little-girl culture is something very unique, and I can only say that because I was one. The obsession - I can't really explain it. Everything is heightened to the maximum.

  Nikki Reed

  Girl, Unique, Culture

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• The danger to power is obsession - power junkies. You need a very strong mind and humor to balance yourself. If you don't, you will get shredded.

  Frederick Lenz

  Strong, Buddhism, Mind

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• I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.

  Scarlett Thomas

  Writing, Together, Gathering

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• Besides good schools, a good airport, and the Cowboys, Dallas had golf courses, and golf was fast becoming an obsession with me.

  Charley Pride

  School, Golf, Cowboy

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• It's a silly thing, but I like to understand people through their obsessions.

  Amber Dermont

  Silly, People, Silly Things

  Amber Dermont (2012). “The Starboard Sea: A Novel”, p.65, Macmillan

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• You repeat things because they're like your personal obsessions

  Wendy Carlos

  Like You, Repeats

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