Obsessive Quotes - Page 9

• I'm accustomed to just working by myself, alone in the room and cranking up the music and just working and getting all into an obsessive state where I'm focused on this thing, and it's the one thing that I feel like I may have a little bit of control over in my life.

  Eric Drooker

  May, Littles, Rooms

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Manchester United could have any goalkeeper in the world. I was a 23-year-old kid from New Jersey who, from an early age, had to cope with Tourettes Syndrome, a brain disorder that can trigger speech and facial tics, vocal outbursts and obsessive compulsive behavior.

  Tim Howard

  Kids, Years, Brain

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• The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death.

  Georges Bataille

  Emotional, Giving, Elements

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• I read a lot, that's my main hobby. I've got an iPad which I store books on and I read voraciously. I'm a slow reader but I'm obsessive. I make references, underline things, cross-reference. I'm an autodidact.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Book, Ipads, Hobbies

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• Apple has never allowed ad-blocking software on the iPhone or iPad. This is one among many reasons that I ditched both. Not because I hate ads all that passionately, but because it's an example of the obsessive corporate control Apple maintains over its environment.

  Kevin Drum

  Hate, Block, Iphone

  "Apple Hates Me. I Hate Them Right Back" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. August 31, 2015.

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• Anorexia is a disease that happens to people, mostly women and girls, who have obsessive, perfectionist personalities.

  Crystal Renn

  Girl, People, Personality

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Under the obsessive thoughts and plans, under the emotions, positive and negative, there is an ocean of peace.

  Gangaji

  Ocean, Negative, Emotion

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• I interview every employeeand I have 3000 employees. It's an obsessive sickness.

  Stephen Starr

  Interviews, Sickness, Employee

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• Children became an obsessive theme in Victorian culture at the same time that they were being exploited as never before. As the horrors of life multiplied for some children, the image of childhood was increasingly exalted. Children became the last symbols of purity in a world which was seen as increasingly ugly.

  C. Sommerville

  Children, Childhood, World

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• Here we observe the basic obsessive fantasy of Žižek's position: do nothing, sit still, prefer not to, like Melville's Bartleby, and silently dream of a ruthless violence, a consolidation of state power into one man's hands, an act of brutal physical force of which you are the object or the subject or both at once.

  Simon Critchley

  Dream, Men, Hands

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• My characters' addictions are what makes them a bit stylized or "grotesque" - not just in appearance but through what drives them. Addiction is what threatens stability and normalcy and yet it seems very much a part of being human - at least we are all a bit obsessive and compulsive. Aren't all humans driven by mad desires for one thing or another?

  Porochista Khakpour

  Character, Addiction, Mad

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I am a really obsessive music listener, and I would look for clues.

  Craig Finn

  Looks, Clue, Listeners

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I do seem like the kind of guy who'd be obsessive about Rubik's Cubes.

  Chris Hardwick

  Guy, Cubes, Kind

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• He's famous for being obsessive about details.

  Matt Damon

  Details

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• There's no real escape from the work, but in some ways, if you're as obsessive as I am, it's a sweet little thing we've figured out. You bring your work home and you work 24 hours a day, but it's good.

  Simon Helberg

  Sweet, Real, Home

  Source: collider.com

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• Without rules you can't have anything, but you don't want to just be pedantic or obsessive. The painting is finished when it's working. The overall balance is right. Balance shouldn't be confused with design. There has to be restless jostle and aggression and a bit of dynamism, not just pat-ness or settled-ness or immediate pleasing-ness.

  Matthew Collings

  Confused, Design, Balance

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• It is really important to have an obsessive need to construct something, to understand something from your own experience.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Important, Needs, Constructs

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• I was 3 years old and Mary Poppins [1964] made an impression on me that was seismic, apparently. I fell into some kind of total creative, imaginative rapture over that movie that propelled this industry of Mary Poppins drawings, plays, performances - just an obsessive, creative reaction to it.

  Todd Haynes

  Play, Drawing, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Taboo crowd was certainly less precious. They were happy to end up in a pile of vomit and booze at the end of the night. It was antifashion, in a sense. They were just as obsessive as the New -Romantics but they acted like they didn't care.

  Boy George

  Night, Care, Crowds

  "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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• How do you remember everything from different books when you are still writing the HP series? As obsessive fans will tell you, I do slip up! Several classrooms move floors mysteriously between books and these are the least serious continuity errors! Most of the fansites will point you in the direction of my mistakes. But the essentials remain consistent from book to book because the story has been plotted for a long time and it is clear in my mind.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mistake, Moving, Book

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• I think I am becoming obsessive-compulsive. David Beckham apparently turns all the Diet Coke cans in his fridge to face the same way every morning, and I nerdily sharpen all the pencils in my pot before sitting down to work.

  Andrew O'Hagan

  Morning, Thinking, Sitting Down

  "Writers' rooms: Andrew O'Hagan" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2007.

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• When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

  Daniel Craig

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• I was obsessed with Tupac - like eat, sleep, breathe Tupac. During this obsessive love affair, I dressed the part.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Sleep, Affair, Breathe

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• It's a very obsessive profession that you need to stay obsessed to get anywhere, and it's very easy for us to get obsessed and then nothing else matters. I was reading Somerset Maugham's novella, Moon and Sixpense, about this artist based on Gauguin's life. It was so beautifully written. You must be first rate because second rate you might not survive. If you're an accountant, you'll survive second rate. If you chance it big, you may not get anywhere.

  Joan Chen

  Reading, Artist, Moon

  "Joan Chen and Amanda Schull Interview MAO’S LAST DANCER". collider.com. August 18, 2010.

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• The writing is therapeutic for me, it's an introverted process, I'm really inside my head. It's a really obsessive process. The live show, though, is the opposite. It's an extroverted process. It pushes me to connect with people, and so it pulls me out of my head and just pulls me out of myself.

  Fernando Torres

  Writing, Opposites, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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