Obsession Quotes - Page 8

• If you really want to become an actor, but only providing that acting doesn't interfere with your golf game, political ambitions and your life, you don't want to become an actor. Not only is acting more than a part time job, it's more than a full time job. It's a full time obsession.

  Michael Caine

  Jobs, Ambition, Golf

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• All good research-whether for science or for a book-is a form of obsession.

  Mary Roach

  Book, Research, Form

  Mary Roach (2010). “Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife”, p.299, Canongate Books

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• Someone with an obsession for arranging things in alphabetical order was an abcedist, whereas someone with an obsession for arranging them in reverse alphabetical order was a zyxedist.

  Walter Moers

  Order, Reverse, Arranging

  Walter Moers (2008). “The City of Dreaming Books”, p.358, The Overlook Press

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• This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Ruins, Dignity, Ifs

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.219, A&C Black

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• Think of it! We could have gone on longing for one another and pretending not to notice forever. This obsession with dignity can ruin your life if you let it.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Thinking, Forever, Gone

  Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.219, A&C Black

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• People whose lives are not balanced by a healthy love of money suffer from an appalling obsession with personal integrity.

  Diane Setterfield

  Integrity, People, Healthy

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• You’re a human, you should understand self-obsession.

  Markus Zusak

  Self, Should, Humans

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.301, RH Childrens Books

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• People see everything through the lens of their obsessions.

  Francine Prose

  People, Lenses

  Francine Prose (2012). “Goldengrove”, p.126, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Your desintation is a life of meaning, fulfillment, creativity and joy. A life free of fears, obsessions, compulsions, and addictions, without the insecurities others activates so easily and the torments they create in you. WHen you resist your [life] experiences, you resist the guidance they offer. Anger, resentment jealousy and fear each show you in their own way what you need to change inside yourself in order to reach your destination. Are you listening?

  Gary Zukav

  Life, Creativity, Order

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• Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession.

  Tahir Shah

  Cities, Lost

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King, Dyslexic edition”, p.34, Lulu.com

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• On who the flies landed without being chased away by that person, was on her way to death - this was one of the unmistakeable signs. From that time on, I think, dates my obsession with flies. In times of peace, when we all lied still, I made sure to sneak close up to my mother, watching very carefully that no fly would land on her, - I waved my hat over her body, flies don't like wind and movement.

  Jeroen Brouwers

  Love, Dream, Mother

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• I don't like Paradise, as they probably don't have obsessions there.

  Alda Merini

  Heaven, Paradise

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• The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction, are no different. They have nearly destroyed us in the past. They plague us still. They fuel the fanaticism of terror. They torment the lives of millions in fractured nations around the world. These obsessions cripple both those who are hated and, of course, those who hate, robbing both of what they might become.

  William J. Clinton

  Religious, Hate, Past

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• He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

  Elias Canetti

  Death, Dying, Guilty

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• I want to write songs with complete sentences. I almos have this obsession with short-changing words. I would never be so pretentious to say that my lyrics are poetry. ... Poems are poems. Song lyrics are for songs.

  Ben Gibbard

  Song, Writing, Want

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• Obsession is beautiful. It's what makes art.

  Joss Whedon

  Beautiful, Art

  "The MoJo Interview: Joss Whedon". Interview with Sheerly Avni, www.motherjones.com. November, 2008.

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• I get very caught up with things. I used to be dominated by domestic things. I had a lovely house in LA-and it became this growing, mad obsession

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Mad, House, Lovely

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• I put out a lot of different kinds of material, and maybe people read that as egotistical. Or maybe, since a lot of it does involve some aspect of me, they find it self-aggrandizing. But there’s a long tradition of artists using themselves. Look, I know I’m not perfect. And, who knows, maybe a part of it has to do with self-obsession. But it’s also about using this weird thing that is a public persona as raw material for creative projects.

  James Franco

  Artist, Self, Long

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• In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.

  Andres Serrano

  Catholic, My Own

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• If you pay attention to when you are hungry, what your body wants, what you are eating, when you've had enough, you end the obsession because obsession and awareness cannot coexist.

  Geneen Roth

  Attention, Body, Want

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.

  James L. Brooks

  World, Obsessed, Whole

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• Until your personality has exhausted its obsession with running the show, your soul isn’t given the space to express itself. Your personality can be threatened by your soul, because your personality has controlled your life for a long time and doesn’t want to give up control. Your personality is like a wild horse that tries to throw off the rider trying to tame it. The rider is your soul.

  Corinne McLaughlin

  Running, Horse, Giving Up

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• Tim Thornton's portrait of a pop culture obsession is so convincing that one can't help wishing that his fictional alt rock band actually existed, or suspecting that they did. The Alternative Hero is a weirdly compelling portrait of fanatic fandom which reads like High Fidelity at high volume.

  Jay McInerney

  Hero, Rocks, Wish

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• One of the problems we have is that we cannot just be content to admire and enjoy, we have to possess and feel we own what we see. That can become for many of us an addiction which adds a complication to our life and takes away our peace of mind. Craving things becomes after a while a serious distraction and an obsession.

  Joseph Girzone

  Addiction, Mind, Serious

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• I love you still, but with your death I succumbed to a kind of infatuation. I convinced myself that what you and I had, so very briefly, was of far vaster and deeper import than it truly was. Of all the weapons we chose to turn upon ourselves, guilt is the sharpest, Silverfox. It can carve one's own past into unrecognizable shapes, false memories leading to beliefs that sow all kinds of obsessions.

  Steven Erikson

  Memories, Love You, Past

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