Obsession Quotes - Page 25

• Inclusiveness isn't what I want to push back against. The obsession with facts is.

  John D'Agata

  Want, Facts, Inclusiveness

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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 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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• These predators loved with wild fury, but they were also darkly possessive, crossing the boundary into what humans might term obsession.

  Nalini Singh

  Predator, Might, Boundaries

  Nalini Singh (2008). “Mine to Possess”, p.231, Penguin

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• Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and Ive been a guitar junkie ever since.

  Johnny Marr

  Guitar, Age, Four

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• to give life to sculpture I found it must have a pulse, a breathing quality that could change in a flash, and it must never appear static, hard, or unrevealing. All these demands formed themslves in my thoughts, and became like an endless obsession.

  Malvina Hoffman

  Art, Breathing, Giving

  Malvina Hoffman (1965). “Yesterday is Tomorrow: A Personal History”, New York : Crown Publishers

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• If one of God's children finds he cannot see or feel life in other terms than those of form, if he tries to escape and live outside of this obsession and fails, he generally calls himself a sculptor.

  Malvina Hoffman

  Art, Children, Trying

  Malvina Hoffman (1939). “Sculpture inside and out”

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• Writing is not hard work, it is simply an obsession.

  Hallie Burnett

  Hard Work, Writing, Working It

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• Apologies; our cultural obsession with them isn't about actually being offended, or simply needing to hear, “I'm sorry.” It's not really about right or wrong. It's about wanting to throw a rock in the dark and hear something break.

  Jim Norton

  Sorry, Dark, Apology

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• I think that America has an obsession with history, really.

  JJ Feild

  Thinking, America

  "JJ Feild, Gentleman Spy". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 14, 2013.

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• If meditate on the third eye and have headaches it means you are trying to pull in too much power from the occult chakra. The danger is obsession.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Eye, Buddhism

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• I used to live in Los Angeles, but I didn't want my kids to grow up in the thick of the obsession with movie-making. There's a lot of sensationalism and superficiality. I wanted to take my kids out of that and raise 'em up elsewhere, and I wanted to stop being preoccupied with whether my star is on the rise or the descent. I can't imagine having a much greater life, and I don't want to be preoccupied with things that don't matter. But of course, ironically, my two oldest daughters have decided that they're going to be actresses.

  Woody Harrelson

  Daughter, Stars, Growing Up

  "Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg". Interview with Steve Heisler, film.avclub.com. October 1, 2009.

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• I'd love to be in a period drama - that's my obsession. But being a mixed-race actress, there aren't so many roles you're right for.

  Antonia Thomas

  Drama, Race, Roles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A Nation of Outsiders is smart, insightful, and politically astute. Grace Hale's analysis of the 'romance of the outsider' is necessary reading for anyone who has ever wondered about the meaning of our national obsession with 'authenticity'-as well as for anyone who might be curious about what Jerry Falwell and Holden Caulfield have in common.

  Beth Bailey

  Smart, Reading, Romance

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• A great artist has a unique vision...obsession. They are someone willing to fail flamboyantly.

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Unique, Vision

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• The obsession with economic profit and technical efficiency puts the human rhythms of life at risk.

  Pope Francis

  Rhythm Of Life, Risk, Economic

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• All of us desire a better state of society. But society cannot become better before two great tasks are performed.Unless peace can be firmly established and the prevailing obsession with money and power profoundly modified, there is no hope of any desirable change being made.

  Aldous Huxley

  Two, Desire, Tasks

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.157, Transaction Publishers

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• There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. Its the art of putting all your energy into one thing; its the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.

  Renzo Piano

  Art, Italian, Lunch

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• An artist’s work is almost entirely inquiry based and self-regulated. It is a fragile process of teaching oneself to work alone, and focusing on how to hone your quirky creative obsessions so that they eventually become so oddly specific that they can only be your own.

  Teresita Fernandez

  Teaching, Artist, Self

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• I wonder why love is so often equated with joy when it is everything else as well. Devastation, balm, obsession, granting and receiving excessive value, and losing it again. It is recognition, often of what you are not but might be. It sears and it heals. It is beyond pity and above law. It can seem like truth.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Love Is, Law, Joy

  Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.41, Knopf

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• All normal human beings are interested in their past. Only when the interest becomes an obsession, overshadowing present and future conduct, is it a danger. In much the same way healthy nations are interested in their history, but a morbid preoccupation with past glories is a sign that something is wrong with the constitution of the State.

  C. V. Wedgwood

  Past, History, Healthy

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• ..the writer's obsession - the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest degree of precision.

  Ivan Klíma

  Desire, Degrees, Precision

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• What's happened to marriage? The wedding-industrial complex. Brides get swept up in this world of obsession - it has to be your perfect day.

  Dave Barry

  Perfect Days, World, Brides

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• Ironically, white America will catapult books about race to the top of the best-seller list, even as racism remains a national open wound. Obsession ain't solution, however, because reading even at its most intense and verisimilitudinous is vicarious, and once you close the book you're off the hook.

  Marita Golden

  Book, Reading, Race

  Marita Golden, Susan Shreve (2011). “Skin Deep: Black Women & White Women Write About Race”, p.2, Anchor

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• I like to make pies. Thats kind of my new obsession - peach, blueberry, apple, strawberry. I make a really good pumpkin pie with real pumpkin.

  Morgan Saylor

  Real, Apples, Pie

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