Obsession Quotes - Page 24

• I don't know if this is a good thing to say, but the musical obsession has almost shifted to a creative obsession now.

  Erol Alkan

  Creative, Musical, Good Things

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I am interested in the interaction of a group of people who have a common goal, or a common obsession, each contributing something unique to make something greater than the sum of its parts. I don't know why, but from day one, that has interested me.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Unique, People, Goal

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• I think anybody who's famous has to deal with their fame in their own way, and I dealt with it by making a film about a kid who's looking out into the world of celebrity obsession.

  Adrian Grenier

  Kids, Thinking, World

  "From A 'Teenage Paparazzo,' A Lesson About Fame". Interview with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. September 27, 2010.

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• An obsession that I've developed in my old age, is great architecture. I bought a house in New Orleans and I became quite enamored of the architecture there. It began there. I travel a lot or my work, so now, wherever I go, I wasn't to find the most beautiful church, the most beautiful museums. Anything ancient.

  Jennifer Coolidge

  Beautiful, New Orleans, Museums

  Source: www.discdish.com

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• There is also a particular area of sleep called slow-wave sleep. I immediately liked this idea. It turns out this part of sleep is where the brain basically gets into step with itself and gets into this one single phase of these relatively slow brain waves - around 10 Hz or so - and the whole brain 'fires all at once'. This is a brilliant bit of sleep where we consolidate memory and learning, and memory is one of my obsessions really.

  Max Richter

  Memories, Sleep, Fire

  Source: thequietus.com

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

  Vernon Howard

  Needs, Obsessed, Obstruction

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

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• My most favorite entrance music of all time... it's that, "You're my obsession, you're my obsession" song [Animotion's "Obsession"].

  Joseph Bruce

  Song, Entrances, All Time

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism - the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and the release of the unconscious.

  Douglas McCulloh

  Photography, Exaltation, Chance

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• Sometime in 1964 I realized that I was a victim of a printmaking obsession, a condition that persists today.

  Irving Penn

  Today, Victim, Printmaking

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• Each obsession is a knot in your being. Once it is opened, great energy is released

  Rajneesh

  Energy, Knots

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From I to Q”

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• We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession.

  Brad Pitt

  Lifestyle, Consumers, Products

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