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• Some crushes just never went away. They built, instead, into something permanent, obsessive and all consuming.

  Maya Banks

  Crush, Consuming, Built

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• I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a great deal to add.

  Gore Vidal

  Add, Way, Deals

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• We have more than two options. A critique of reason does not have to be a call for the return of superstition and arbitrary power. Our problems do not lie with reason itself but with our obsessive treatment of reason as an absolute value. Certainly it is one of our qualities, but it functions positively only when balanced and limited by the others.

  John Ralston Saul

  Lying, Two, Quality

  "The Doubter's Companion". Book by John Ralston Saul, 1994.

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• I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure.

  Marina Abramovic

  Girl, Children, Who I Am

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• I love working with people who are inspired and obsessive.

  Nicole Kidman

  People, Inspired, Nicole

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Dec 07, 2016

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• An obsessive attention to the news, I've realized, only serves to paint a picture of the world as a throbbing blob of dysfunction, most news falling somewhere on a scale from disappointing to calamitous.

  Josh Radnor

  Fall, Dysfunction, Attention

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

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• Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing to settle, to join the collective nod. The insomniac brain is a sort of conspiracy theorist as well, believing too much in its own paranoiac importance--as though if it were to blink, then doze, the world might be overrun by some encroaching calamity, which its obsessive musings are somehow fending off.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Believe, Insomnia, Race

  FaceBook post by Jonathan Lethem from Jul 01, 2016

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• Is it love, obsession, infatuation? You don't know. You think of a strange and beautiful word you read about once, Limerance, a psychological term, meaning an obsessive love, a state that's almost like a drug. Need like a wolf paces the perimeter of your world, back and forth, back and forth, never letting up. ...You're appalled by the new appetites within you, kicking their feet and clawing to get out.

  Nikki Gemmell

  Beautiful, Thinking, Feet

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• I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.

  Gates McFadden

  Gardening, Architecture, Hairstyles

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• There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Knitting, Want, Activity

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.15, Storey Publishing

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• Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art

  Susan Sontag

  Art, People, Worry

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• Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery. Writing fiction, for me, is about putting on paper my obsessive interest in something mysterious. I may figure out the source of the mystery, the things that brought some action or image to my mind, but to make an equation of it would ruin the story.

  Antonya Nelson

  Writing, Mind, May

  "Until It Isn’t". Interview with Giuseppe Taurino, americanshortfiction.org. July 15, 2014.

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• The moment we let go of our obsessive concern for our own welfare, our mind naturally relaxes and becomes lighter.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Letting Go, Mind, Relax

  Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.151, Tharpa Publications UK

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• The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are precisely the tendencies in our psychological makup that the psychedelics mitigate. The plant hallucinogens dissolve habits and hold motivations up to inspection by a wider, less egocentric, and more grounded point of view within the individual.

  Terence McKenna

  Motivation, Views, Drug

  Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

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• You have to be able to observe life as if you were a camera all the time, constantly looking at light and the way that things are placed and the way people hold themselves. You need the ability to see something in someone or something that no one else really sees and be able to bring that to light. Basically, you have to be an obsessive crazy person.

  Ryan McGinley

  Crazy, Light, People

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• Twitter freaks me out. You have followers? It feels so obsessive and proprietary.

  Mos Def

  Followers, Freak, Feels

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• Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Childhood, Theme

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• I just always wonder if I'm too obsessive about subjects. I try to avoid that.

  Gary Gulman

  Trying, Wonder, Subjects

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• I've never told anyone this before, but I'm an obsessive-compulsive. I go back to my hotel room every evening and put the coat hangers back in order and open my bag and rearrange it. It takes a lot of my time, but if I don't do it I can't sleep.

  Freida Pinto

  Sleep, Order, Coats

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• I must say that when I first learned of the existence of the Australian Greenhouse Office, I assumed it was responsible for supplying tomatoes to the Parliament House kitchen. But, no, as I soon learnt as industry minister, it was in fact a government funded redoubt of veritable soldiers in a war against carbon dioxide. The zealotry and obsessive passion of these warriors in the battle against the apparent evils of carbon dioxide remains a curiosity to me. After fighting these people for three years as industry minister, I really did wish they would just go away and grow tomatoes.

  Nick Minchin

  War, Passion, Fighting

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• I'm a terrible sleeper. I get obsessive, repetitive thoughts and it's horrible.

  Eliot Paulina Sumner

  Terrible, Horrible, Repetitive

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I write I like to just say everything that people think about but never express vocally. I just get deep into it; I'm a bit obsessive about music.

  Drake

  Writing, Thinking, People

  HipHop Canada Interview, July 12, 2006.

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• Take the gesture, the action of writing. I have an almost obsessive relation to writing instruments. I often switch from one pen to another just for the pleasure of it. I try out new ones. I have far too many pens - I don't know what to do with all of them! And yet, as soon as I see a new one, I start craving it. I cannot keep myself from buying them.

  Roland Barthes

  Writing, Trying, Gestures

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• I just became obsessed with looking for new singers, unknown singers, people that maybe have been forgotten, and really checking them out and analyzing what they do - and obsessive listening. I think that's the core of my work on music - has been just listening to things and listening to singers.

  Cecile McLorin Salvant

  Thinking, People, Listening

  "Jazz Singer Cécile McLorin Salvant Doesn't Want To Sound 'Clean And Pretty'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 4, 2015.

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• A lot of times when I ask people what their apocalyptic fantasy life is like, they'll immediately say something like, "Oh, what I think is going to kill us is climate change or World War IV," and that's not what I'm interested in at all. The point is not about winning a bet about what's going to happen. The point is about the human action of examining the possibility, the kind of obsessive imagining about it.

  Lucy Corin

  War, Winning, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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