Obsessed Quotes - Page 34

• Just try to keep the heart turned outward, as well as having moments inward. I think the threat of an industry like this is that you can become sort of self-obsessed. There's so much praise being given to you - there's a real threat of exalting the ego.

  Kimbra

  Real, Heart, Thinking

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• 'Summer Heights High' is one of my favourite shows of all time. I'm obsessed. I re-watch it all the time.

  Erin Heatherton

  Summer, Watches, Height

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• Sure, there are many bad things that can happen. Yet you can be aware of them, and realistic about them, without being obsessed and consumed by them.

  Ralph Marston

  Realistic, Happens, Consumed

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• Every decision, every debate, no matter how important it is, with the same question: 'What does this mean for the next election? What does it mean for your poll numbers? Is this good for the Democrats or good for the Republicans? Who won the news cycle?' That's just how Washington is. They can't help it. They're obsessed with the sport of politics.

  Barack Obama

  Sports, Mean, Numbers

  President Obama Pennsylvania Health Care Remarks, www.foxnews.com. March 8, 2010.

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• The conservative revolution that Reagan helped usher in gained traction because Reagan's central insight - that the liberal welfare state had grown complacent and overly bureaucratic, with Democratic policy makers more obsessed with slicing the economic pie than with growing the pie - contained a good deal of truth.

  Barack Obama

  Pie, Growing, Revolution

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.156, Canongate Books

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• I'm obsessed with 'Homeland.' It's not even okay.

  Laura Prepon

  Okay, Homeland

  "Laura Prepon Talks ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, Joining the Series, Preparing for the Role, Graphic Sex Scenes and the Freedom of Wearing a Prison Jumpsuit". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 8, 2013.

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• To live with the work and the letters of James Joyce was an enormous privilege and a daunting education. Yes, I came to admire Joyce even more because he never ceased working, those words and the transubstantiation of words obsessed him. He was a broken man at the end of his life, unaware that Ulysses would be the number one book of the twentieth century and, for that matter, the twenty-first.

  Edna O'Brien

  Book, Men, Numbers

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• You know when you get a crush on a person you don't know that much about them, you're sort of obsessed with them, you want to spend more time with them.

  Jonah Peretti

  Crush, Want, More Time

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I would love to meet some directors, and why not do some other movies in America? But, I'm not obsessed with this idea. I'm feeling very free in Europe.

  Ludivine Sagnier

  Europe, Ideas, America

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• I remember when I did Little Women, I didn't watch the Katharine Hepburn one over and over, which I thought I would do. Heathers, I was completely obsessed with.

  Winona Ryder

  Heathers, Littles, Watches

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was very obsessed with Ruth Gordon. I really didn't foresee me having any type of career as a leading lady at all because it was just blonds. I just wasn't the type - I was told that by casting directors. I auditioned for Running on Empty [1988] and The Mosquito Coast [1986], and Martha Plimpton was just killing me.

  Winona Ryder

  Running, Careers, Mosquitoes

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was young, I was really, really obsessed with Gena Rowlands and John Cassavetes. Because my mom was a projectionist in college, she was somehow able to get a real projector. And she had some connections, so she would get real prints, and we'd put up a sheet. The first movies I saw were To Kill a Mockingbird [1962], Gigi [1958], A Woman Under the Influence [1974]. Then when I was old enough to be able to rent movies, I went through a very big Cassavetes phase.

  Winona Ryder

  Mom, Real, College

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Entrepreneurs need to be positive. Always. Entrepreneurs need to be brave, often. And lastly, entrepreneurs need to be obsessed.

  Ronnie Apteker

  Entrepreneur, Brave, Being Positive

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• I like words and numbers. I'm obsessed with them. You know, I think I would've been a mathematician had I kept up, but it's the stuff in your head, you know? It's like being technologically adept. You have it or you don't. You can learn it, but some people just have it. They go to sleep, wake up, and know everything. I like games, too. I love playing games.

  Jackee Harry

  Sleep, Thinking, Playing Games

  "Jackée Harry on 227, Ladybugs, and why she wants to be the next Maggie Smith". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. February 26, 2016.

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• When I was in school, if you wanted a computer, you had to build one. But today, computers are everywhere. We're all obsessed with technology and having the latest gadgets. Nerd culture is ubiquitous.

  Chris Hardwick

  School, Technology, Nerd

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I'm obsessed with efficiency. And there are some tasks I need to just leave alone. And there are others - like an evening with one of my daughters or my wife - where I need to toss efficiency aside and simply be in the moment.

  David Livermore

  Daughter, Wife, Tasks

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• You have to find a group that really desperately cares about what it is you have to say. Talk to them. They have something I call otaku. It's a great Japanese word. It describes the desire of someone who's obsessed to, say, drive across Tokyo to try a new Ramen noodle place 'cause that's what they do, they get obsessed with it.

  Seth Godin

  Desire, Trying, Care

  "What Makes An Idea Go Viral?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• That's why there's lots and lots of kinds of hot sauces, and not so many kinds of mustard. Not because it's hard to make interesting mustard - you could make interesting mustard - but people don't, because no one's obsessed with it, and thus no one tells their friends.

  Seth Godin

  Interesting, People, Hot Sauce

  "How to get your ideas to spread". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2003.

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• When I was a little younger, I really did love musical theatre in the same hopeless dorky way that she does. I was obsessed with Jesus Christ Superstar and I used to reenact it in my room when no one was home.

  Sarah Steele

  Jesus, Home, Musical

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I suspected learning a language would be both useful and enjoyable (I love memorising lists of things), and would get rid of the embarrassment of being monolingual at 21. I'd been obsessed with reading for as long as I could remember, the only thing I'd ever thought I might want to be was a writer, but I was much better at crafting sentences than at stringing plots together.

  Deborah Smith

  Reading, Long, Together

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.

  Nicholas Royle

  Stories, Short Story, Written

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Coming from a working-class background, where my father did manual labor, was a good grounding; I was obsessed with getting a job or getting out of the house at 15.

  Johnny Marr

  Jobs, Father, Class

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I fall in love I'm obsessed.

  Isabel Allende

  Falling In Love, Fall, I Fall In Love

  "Author Isabel Allende". "Tell Tavis" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 12, 2010.

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• It can be really weird to say, 'Hey man, let's make a record and start with this horrible zither sound.' But I was obsessed with the idea of taking a sound and completely phenomenologically thrashing it."

  Daniel Lopatin

  Men, Ideas, Sound

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I was 10, my school did Romeo and Juliet. I was Juliet, and that was, like, the biggest deal ever. I was completely obsessed with the role.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  School, Roles, Juliet

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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