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• I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Writing, Character, Exercise

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• Why were the Europeans bothered about the Soviet Union at all? It was nothing to do with us. China had nothing to do with us. Why were we not building, without reference to the Soviet Union, a good society in our own countries? But no, we were all - in one way or another - obsessed with the bloody Soviet Union, which was a disaster. What people were supporting was failure. And continually justifying it.

  Doris Lessing

  Country, People, Unions

  "A Notorious Life". Interview with Dwight Garner, www.salon.com. November 11, 1997.

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• Although I grew up in Kansas City, ... I have always kept more or less au courant of Texas barbecue, like a sports fan who is almost monomaniacally obsessed with basketball but glances over at the N.H.L. standings now and then.

  Calvin Trillin

  Basketball, Sports, Texas

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• If I like chocolate it won't surprise you that I have a few chocolates in my fridge, but if you find out I've got 16 warehouses full of chocolate, you'd think I was insane. All these rich guys are insane, obsessive compulsive twits obsessed with money - money is all they think about - they're all nuts.

  John Cleese

  Thinking, Nuts, Guy

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, 1997.

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• I'm a little obsessed with being competitive.

  Metta World Peace

  Littles

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• I am obsessed at nights with the idea of my own worthlessness, and if it were only to turn a light on to save my life I think I would not do it. These are the last footprints of a headache I suppose. Do you ever feel that? - like an old weed in a stream. What do you feel, lying in bed?

  Virginia Woolf

  Weed, Lying, Night

  Virginia Woolf (1975). “The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1929-1931”

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• The very first song I wrote was about a boy that I was obsessed with.

  Ellie Goulding

  Song, Boys, Firsts

  "Love Lessons From Ellie Goulding". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. October 9, 2012.

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• But what we know, we who are either observers of a business we once were in and loved, or are people within it now, our business as a whole, when it is not obsessed with the business of business, is eaten up with a form of cultural conservatism which is truly amazing. Indeed, more often than not it is eaten up with pure reactionary-ism.

  Hodding Carter III

  People, Isms, Form

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• If you want to be obsessed to be your best, you must get ride of the negative things that are weighing you down.

  George Foreman

  Negative, Want, Weighing

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• The happiest and most successful people I know don't just love what they do, they're obsessed with solving an important problem, something that matters to them.

  Drew Houston

  Successful, People, Important

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• I was obsessed with Eminem when I was younger. When he first came out I was about 12 and fanatical about his 'Slim Shady' CD. I think he's a genius.

  Robert Pattinson

  Thinking, Cds, Genius

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• I think that the reason that people are so up in arms about movies that have historical inaccuracies is because now that we've trashed our education institutions beyond repair, people fear that the only people are getting their histories is through the movies, so the elephant in the room is that no one wants to talk about why we're so passionately obsessed with accuracy.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Thinking, Elephants, People

  Source: collider.com

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• OCD, we discovered is a lot of different things-it's not just washing your hands, it's whatever you're obsessed with. It can be just the way you hold a pen, and you always have to have it a certain way or you have to eat your food, it depends. It's something that, as a character I thought was really interesting because sometimes it's used in a film where it is OCD and sometimes it's strategic.

  Antoine Fuqua

  Character, Hands, Interesting

  "Antoine Fuqua Talks ‘Hardcore’ Action and Sequel Potential For ‘The Equalizer’". Interview with Rob Keyes, screenrant.com. June 20, 2014.

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• I've always identified myself as a drummer first and foremost - I'm pretty obsessed with rhythm.

  Glenn Kotche

  Firsts, Drummer, Rhythm

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Everyone has dated or been with a person who is obsessed with their work, and it's immensely frustrating. You're like, "I'm right here! I'm a person! I'm interesting, too!"

  Kristen Connolly

  Interesting, Frustrating, Persons

  Source: collider.com

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• Regret isn't going to get me anywhere. It's like being obsessed with something. It doesn't bring you anywhere.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Regret

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Don't get obsessed with not liking a movie.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I went through various phases of different accents - I get ridiculously obsessed with different accents, different regional ways of using the voice, different types of singing. It's all tied together. Speaking is a kind of singing, as are crying and laughing.

  Jenny Hval

  Voice, Laughing, Singing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm obsessed with voices in film. I have this memory of how people say words, even on the most intensely stupid reality TV show.

  Jenny Hval

  Memories, Stupid, Reality

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My older brother always tells me I changed as a person when I saw 'Ace Ventura.' Because when I saw 'Ace Ventura', I became obsessed. I watched the movie as many times as I had to - back then, you couldn't go on the Internet and find the script - so I watched it as many times as I could to write my own script of 'Ace Ventura.'

  Eliza Coupe

  Brother, Writing, Goes On

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

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• The first thing, the very very first thing, "Find out what your greatest characteristic is, your greatest undoing, your central characteristic of unconsciousness." Each one's is different. Somebody is sex-obsessed. In a country like India, where for centuries sex has been repressed, that has become almost a universal characteristic; everybody is obsessed with sex. Somebody is obsessed with anger, and somebody else is obsessed with greed. You have to watch which is your basic obsession.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Country, Sex, Greed

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• The word 'idiot' comes from a Greek root meaning private person. Idiocy is the female defect: intent on their private lives, women follow their fate through a darkness deep as that cast by malformed cells in the brain. It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy: men are so obsessed by public affairs that they see the world as by moonlight, which shows the outlines of every object but not the details indicative of their nature.

  Rebecca West

  Fate, Men, Cells

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• The hyperfast-moving, wired-up, reengineered, quality-obsessed organization will succeed or fail on the strength of the trust that its managers place in the folks working on the front line.

  Tom Peters

  Moving, Organization, Quality

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• Fear wants us to become obsessed with some event or person in the future, a year, a month, even a day. It also wants us to look backwards not at our successes, but our short-comings and our failures. Fear losses it's grip when we stay in the now.

  Rob Bell

  Loss, Years, Events

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• Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure.

  E. M. Forster

  Obsession, Purity, Reformers

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