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• I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.

  Aimee Bender

  Writing, People, Kind

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• I guess I see a part of myself in everyone I write about. I tend to write about kids who are obsessed with something, and even though I have never been good with machines the way Hugo is, I did love miniature things when I was a kid.

  Brian Selznick

  Writing, Kids, Machines

  Teenreads Interview, www.teenreads.com. February 2007.

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• I was pretty young when I saw the original Planet of the Apes, and for a time in the seventies, I was pretty obsessed with it.

  Gregory Keyes

  Saws, Apes, Planets

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• Its almost scary how amateur I am when it comes to musicals - Im a musical goer, but I am not as obsessed with musicals as perhaps some of my theatrical friends are.

  David Levithan

  Scary, Musical, Theatrical

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• While the Left seems obsessed with increasing taxes and spending even more money, conservatives have focused more heavily on the need for spending restraint and entitlement reform - primarily to preserve and protect the future of the Medicare program. Overlooked in all of this is the future of Medicaid.

  Fred Upton

  Reform, Needs, Entitlement

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• Frankly, Milan kind of sucks as a restaurant city. Its so fashion-obsessed that people dont pay that much attention to the food.

  Joe Bastianich

  Fashion, Cities, People

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• Jazz is a big thing with me. It's a very big passion of mine, to play it. I'm an amateur musician and I love everything about it. I was obsessed with jazz when I was 15 years old and I know a lot about it because I've loved it so much.

  Woody Allen

  Passion, Years, Play

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I'm not a very organized person for being uber work-obsessed. I struggle to keep it all organized because everything can become important and, when you have so many spinning plates, they sometimes can cancel each other out because you lose track of everything.

  Drew Barrymore

  Struggle, Spinning Plates, Uber

  "Drew Barrymore on her new gig, motherhood, and Adam Sandler". "Entertainment Weekly" Interview, www.cnn.com. January 09, 2014.

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• When you become a parent you're endlessly obsessed with chatting to other moms and learning how they make it work - keep all the balls in the air if you like - because we all want to know how to be the best mom that we possibly can be.

  Tess Daly

  Mom, Air, Parent

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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• The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.

  Deborah Harkness

  Spiritual, Study, Witch

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• I'm obsessed with the idea of social TV.

  Dennis Crowley

  Ideas, Tvs, Social

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• Im obsessed with the moon and space travel, so if I could incorporate that, Id love to go to space.

  Sam Heughan

  Moon, Space, Ifs

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• I really like Jeff Lewis and 'Flipping Out' and 'Interior Therapy.' I don't know why I'm obsessed with American real estate and renovation.

  Chris Lilley

  Real, Renovation, Estates

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was born in 1991, and Harry Potter came out in 97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.

  Samantha Shannon

  Night, Potters, Used

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• When I was an adolescent, I was obsessed with having many commercial things, cars, clothes, stupid things. Now that I have all that, I understand that the superfluous things can turn to you into a very stupid idiot-type. In East Germany there were very few things, but there was also a feeling of solidarity that no longer exists. Now we are up to the neck in consumption, the ego, the individualism. Now before friendship, it is merchandise.

  Till Lindemann

  Stupid, Clothes, East Germany

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• Nobody knows why we're alive; so we all create stories based on our imagination of the world; and as a community, we believe in the same story. In India, every person believes his/ her own mythosphere to be real. Indian thought is obsessed with subjectivity; Greek thought with objectivity.

  Devdutt Pattanaik

  Real, Believe, Objectivity

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• I grew up in the countryside, and I was obsessed with horses and wildlife.

  Bella Freud

  Horse, Wildlife, Grew Up

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• I am obsessed with story. I had a late awakening in life. In college was the first time that I understood what you could do with a story and what a good novel is - literary value and subtext and irony and everything.

  Shane Carruth

  College, Stories, Awakening

  "DVD Re-run Interview: Shane Carruth on “Primer”; The Lessons of a First-Timer". Interview with Wendy Mitchell, www.indiewire.com. April 18, 2005.

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• I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood.

  Jennifer Lee

  Childhood, Chinese, Firsts

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• Britain is obsessed with political correctness.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Political, Britain, Correctness

  "Of political correctness and referendums" by Marcus Brigstocke, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2005.

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• I would not call myself a veteran conspiracy theorist. Or an obsessed one. I pretty much peaked on the whole conspiracy theory thing in the '60s, with the grassy knoll, who really killed JFK, and who ordered the hit on Lee Harvey Oswald.

  Patti Davis

  Veteran, Conspiracy, Theory

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• I have never been over concerned or obsessed with opinion polls or popularity polls. I think a leader who is, is a weak leader. Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I'm meaningless.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Thinking, Wind, Leader

  "The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew". Book by Lee Kuan Yew, www.aljazeera.com. 1997.

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• Don't call a girl obsessed when she's in love.

  Zayn Malik

  Girl

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• I'm a strategist, not a motivator. I'm obsessed with finding strategies that create real results in the shortest period of time.

  Tony Robbins

  Real, Strategy, Results

  Playboy Interview, www.awaken.com. August 17, 2013.

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• 2Pac wrote about life threatening situations after being shot so often, it made it seem like he was obsessed with it. He even wrote music and material that he left behind after he died that made reference to him dying already. I think the significance in that ties back to us knowing that that's our fate.

  Curtis Jackson

  Fate, Thinking, Knowing

  "50 Cent Talks Get Rich or Die Tryin'". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. November 8, 2005.

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