Control Freak Quotes - Page 3

• I collaborate with people who know I'm a control freak.

  Kevin Biegel

  People, Freak, Knows

  "The Showrunner Transcript: Cougar Town's Bill Lawrence and Kevin Biegel on the Show's Transformation and Masturbating Time Travelers". Interview with Josef Adalian, www.vulture.com. May 18, 2011.

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• When we give of ourselves, our time, and our money, we're also giving up control. As a control freak myself, I know that sounds scary, but I've learned that the momentary lack of control forces me to look at what I do have and truly count my blessings. I have clean drinking water. I have food on my table. I have a roof over my head and clothes on my back. Suddenly, my panic-stricken mindset is replaced with gratitude.

  Jen Lilley

  Gratitude, Giving Up, Drinking

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• Being a control freak makes us tense, stressed out, and unpleasant to be with.

  Judith Orloff

  Stressed, Freak, Tense

  "7 Habits Of Surrendered People". omtimes.com. April 6, 2014.

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• The stories just keep showing up in my head - and I really hope they keep it up! I write what I'm told, and as long as I do that, I don't have any problems with writer's block or anything. The issues come only when I try to force the story or the people in it to do things they don't want to. As a control freak, it's funny that I've learned to be so comfortable with being out of control in what is arguably one of the most important areas of my life!

  J.R. Ward

  Block, Writing, People

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• When someone has to do work for me, I lose my mind. I can't help it, I'm a bit of a control freak. I've always wanted something that would depict slow-moving paintings, stunning artwork that also incorporates movement. It was hard letting someone else create that vision for me, but I love it.

  Zomby

  Mind, Vision, Helping

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm completely aware of the fact that I'm a control freak.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Facts, Freak

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• I think I'm too much of a control freak.

  Kathy Ireland

  Thinking, Too Much, Freak

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• I'd say I'm a pretty intense person. I'm definitely not my Denise character on 'Scrubs,' nor my Jane character on 'Happy Endings,' but I'm a mix of the two. I really feel that I'm kind of every character that I've ever played; it's just a part of me. And I am a bit of a control freak like Jane. I'm very, perhaps, obsessive like that.

  Eliza Coupe

  Character, Two, Freak

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. October 5, 2011.

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• Sovereignty is the term the Bible uses to describe God's perfect control and management of the universe. He preserves and governs every element. He's continually involved with all created things, directing them to act in a way that fulfills his divine purpose. That's why the most stressed-out people are control freaks. They fail at the quest they most pursue. The more they try to control the world, the more they realize they cannot. Life becomes a cycle of anxiety, failure; anxiety, failure; anxiety, failure. We can't take control, because control is not ours to take.

  Max Lucado

  People, Perfect, Anxiety

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I'm too much of a control freak.

  Dido Armstrong

  Too Much, Freak

  "What went right?". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2001.

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• I really like to plan and think ahead and put things in their place. I'm a bit of a control freak. In many ways, I have done myself a great service over the years in trying to loosen that a bit, and trying to learn how to be present and be comfortable with where I am in any particular moment, literally and figuratively. To try and find the joy and peace in any situation, even if I feel like I don't have a handle on where it is or where it's going.

  Jenn Wasner

  Thinking, Joy, Trying

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.

  Laura Marling

  Freak, Blame, Neurotic

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

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• I was a straight arrow, a control freak. I didn't do drugs or drink, and this was the '70s. I didn't like the loss of control. Which isn't exactly right, because I didn't know what happened when you did drugs.

  George Saunders

  Loss, Arrows, Drug

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• All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not too much contact with other kids. They constructed their own reality and they continue to do it. It's a funny breed, directors.

  Stellan Skarsgard

  Kids, Reality, Childhood

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• If you are a designer, sometimes it is better not to delegate, because someone pays money for something that you designed, so it should be exactly the way you want it, exactly the way you would have chosen it. People call me a control freak, and I say, "Well, my name is on the shoe." It means the heel needs to be the way I want it and not the way somebody else wants it, and the toe needs to be exactly the way I want it, and the fabric and the material have to be exactly the way I want it. It is not a democracy - it is a dictatorship.

  Tom Ford

  Mean, People, Democracy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For me, I go somewhere for three days, and then I come back and I want to change everything, and so it's a fight with everybody. I'm transforming and convincing. It's more than designing. It's shaking people and trying to give them direction. I'm a bit of a control freak. This is a problem as I get older, and it's something I should work on. I should be more confident - learn to trust people and give them freedom and delegate.

  Nicolas Ghesquiere

  Fighting, People, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have no one else involved in the writing process. I would hate to feel that I was going into the studio with something wishy-washy and not done. It's because I'm a control freak, so I want to know that everything is sorted and what's going to come out the other end, obviously with a bit of leeway.

  Marika Hackman

  Hate, Writing, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I actually think it's sometimes easier for the control freaks to let loose.

  Alice Mattison

  Thinking, Freak, Sometimes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm basically a control freak. It's not because I want to be. I'm not at all into the power play that's involved in it.

  George Michael

  Play, Want, Freak

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life.

  Drew Barrymore

  Design, And Love, Freak

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• King George III may have been a greedy ‘control freak,’ but at least he was a Christian. The United States is being run by a Muslim bent on furthering an Islamic caliphate who seeks to destroy our spirituality and the body politic of our Judeo-Christian roots.

  Larry Klayman

  Christian, Running, Kings

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• When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.

  Taylor Swift

  Hurt, People, House

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• I'm such a control freak, and it's very hard for me to lose my inhibitions without something chemical inside me.

  Pink

  Freak, Chemicals, Inhibitions

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• I like writing. It's partly control freak, and partly I really like what I do for a living. I have the luckiest job in the world. I can get up every day and do what I love for a living.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Jobs, Writing, World

  "J. Michael Straczynski Talks Studio JMS, Joe’s Comics, EPIDEMIC, VLAD DRACULA, His Desire To Work With Neil Gaiman, and More". Interview with Bill Graham, collider.com. July 28, 2012.

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• I gave him my hard stare. “You're a control freak and I fight all authority. And you want us to mate?” A wicked spark lit his eyes. “Many, many times.

  Ilona Andrews

  Eye, Fighting, Wicked

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.162, Penguin

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