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• I become kind of obsessive about research.

  James Franco

  Research, Kind

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• I had to be extremely strong to fight off Mr Hitchcock. He was so insistent and obsessive, but I was an extremely strong young woman, and there was no way he was going to get the better of me.

  Tippi Hedren

  Strong, Fighting, Way

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• 'Sherlock' fans are, by and large, an intelligent breed, so they've gone through my back catalogue and got what I've done, why and how I've done it. There is some obsessive behaviour, but I worry for them rather than me.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Intelligent, Worry, Fans

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• The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off and you peel them away and then you're asked to dance again and keep smiling. I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer.

  Penelope Cruz

  Fall, Discipline, Dancer

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

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• I'm obsessive enough about getting fit, it's ridiculous. I'm 40 now, and I've got to stop doing it soon. I have to start getting fat and old!

  Daniel Craig

  Ridiculous, Fit, Enough

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• I'm a hygiene freak. I'm like obsessive-compulsive when it comes to washing your hands.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Hands, Hygiene, Obsessive Compulsive

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• There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior.

  David Byrne

  Years, People, Listening

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• I become quite obsessive when I get into something.

  Victoria Beckham

  "How Victoria Beckham got her body back after baby". www.sheknows.com. March 22, 2012.

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• I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.

  Fiona Apple

  Morning, Lying, House

  "A New Album - and Life - for Fiona Apple" by Liza Ghorbani, www.elle.com. June 7, 2012.

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• I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain.

  Richard Ford

  Brain, Obsessive Compulsive, Disorder

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• When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down.

  Anne Enright

  Feelings, Needs, Clear

  "Anne Enright: 'Love is a great punishment for desire'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2012.

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• These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.

  Jacques Derrida

  Practice, Personality, Philosopher

  Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.410, Stanford University Press

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• Personally I'm obsessive-compulsive about the placement and cleanliness of my things.

  Chace Crawford

  Obsessive Compulsive, Cleanliness, Placement

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• I'm often called obsessive, but I don't think I am any more than anyone else.

  Nicholson Baker

  Thinking

  "A life in writing" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2009.

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• I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.

  George Hamilton

  Book, Numbers, Enormous

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

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• Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of our reveries, and the convulsive movements of our consciences? This obsessive ideal springs above all from frequent contact with enormous cities, from the junction of their innumerable connections.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Spring, Ambition, Cities

  Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.30

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• I'm obsessive about the kind of melodrama of getting through the days and trying to make them good and funny and a happy experience. But my feeling towards the fans is that they delivered me from darkness.

  Tom Baker

  Darkness, Feelings, Trying

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• Once I do something, I need to be obsessed - or maybe I don't need to be obsessed, but I get obsessed because that's just the way my brain works - but I need to pay a lot of attention to detail. Because everything counts to me once I do something, even if it's a movie that nobody cares about. That's why I need to choose very well what I want to do. But in real life, when I watch TV or whatever, I guess I'm not that obsessive guy, and I'm pretty boring.

  Rodrigo Cortes

  Real, Guy, Brain

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive and I'm very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can't not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops. I won't eat right. I forget to do my laundry. I have a dog now, and I have to remember to walk him. When I write, that takes over and I can't do anything else. There's something exciting about that free fall, but then my life gets really screwed up. I've lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.

  Adam Rapp

  Dog, Fall, Writing

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• Good things come to obsessive compulsives who fixate.

  Kieran Culkin

  Good Things

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• I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that they tapped into a fundamental distinction in language processing, indeed in cognitive processing, between memory lookup and rule-driven computation.

  Steven Pinker

  Memories, Years, Verbs

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• I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Intensity, Persons

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• I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Song, Two, Scripts

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• There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost; there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic.

  Susan Orlean

  Beautiful, Animal, People

  "Wild Animals Don’t Want to be Owned" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 20, 2011.

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• The very things I used to be told off for - daydreaming, exaggerating, making mistakes, wild guessing, contradicting, spying, being obsessive, being reckless - for these, suddenly, I am being praised.

  Selima Hill

  Success, Mistake, Guessing

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