Obsessed Quotes - Page 5

• If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.

  Richard Russo

  Betrayal, Mean, Careers

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• While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Stars, Numbers

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• A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.

  Martin Scorsese

  Brother, Father, People

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• One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s.

  Martin Scorsese

  New York, Powerful, Reading

  "Martin Scorsese and Terence Winter Interview BOARDWALK EMPIRE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 14, 2010.

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• Television is the same as the telephone, and the same as the World Wide Web for that matter. People who become obsessed by the peculiarities of these communications media have simply failed to adjust to the shock of the old. People who bleat on about the 'artistic' potential of television qua television are equally deluded.

  Will Self

  Communication, Media, People

  "Chris the saviour" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 1997.

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• I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.

  Vikram Seth

  Reputation

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• I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn't know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Art, School, Ballet

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• I think a lot of people get so obsessed with the wedding and the expense of the wedding that they miss out on what the real purpose is. It's not about a production number, it's about a meaningful moment between two people that's witnessed by people that they actually really know and care about.

  Jane Seymour

  Meaningful, Wedding, Real

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• I constantly watch 'The Simpsons' and an English cartoon called 'The Raccoons' and 'Gummi Bears.' I was obsessed with ninja films, and the 'Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles,' I used to love that as well.

  Matt Smith

  Teenage, Turtles, Cartoon

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• Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

  Barbra Streisand

  Strong Women, Women, Men

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• So many girls come up and say to me, 'I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn't even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I'm obsessed.' That's the coolest compliment to me.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Country, Records

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• I am literally obsessed with Lena Dunham. She's, like, my favorite person in the world. I follow her on Twitter; I read her every day.

  Emma Watson

  World, My Favorite, Favorite Person

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• I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens,' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.

  Ai Weiwei

  Happy Life, People, Forever

  "Our Duty Is to Remember Sichuan". www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2009.

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• I'm pretty obsessed with Stevie Nicks from her style to her voice. I like watching her on YouTube and her old performances, the way she moves and everything.

  Florence Welch

  Moving, Voice, Style

  "Behind the Scenes with Florence and The Machine: Music Unites Interviews Florence Welch" by Michelle Edgar, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 09, 2010.

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• I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.

  Florence Welch

  Feelings, London, Eras

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• I wear jeans and a T-shirt sometimes. I just like clothes - since the first time I can remember, like age ten or eleven; I was just obsessed with music and clothes. Just like a lot of people in England from my generation.

  Paul Weller

  Jeans, Clothes, People

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• Guy Pearce played Mike in 'Neighbors'. I would fake illness to stay off school and watch the one P.M. show, and I would also watch it again when it was repeated at 5:25 P.M. Obsessed.

  Kate Winslet

  School, Fake, Guy

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• Well I always wanted to be Dolly Parton when I was a little girl. I was obsessed with her.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Girl, Littles, Wells

  "Walk The Line - Reese Witherspoon interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I've always been obsessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how we can all have them in our lives.

  Rachel Zoe

  Book, Style, Want

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• Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is that I am obsessed with hockey. I grew up in the Boston area so I am obsessed with hockey since I was a little kid.

  Rob Zombie

  Kids, Hockey, Boston

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• What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions.

  Ann Brashares

  Girl, Our Actions, Responsible

  Twitter post from Feb 18, 2010

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• Still though, I think if you're not self-obsessed, you're probably boring.

  Dave Eggers

  Thinking, Self, Boring

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• Passionately obsessed by anything we love - an avalanche of magic flattens the way ahead, levels, rules, reasons, dissents, bears us with it over chasms, fears, doubts. Without the power of that love.

  Richard Bach

  Fear, Magic, Doubt

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• When someone is seeking, it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.

  Hermann Hesse

  Mean, Thinking, Goal

  "Siddhartha". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 140, 1922.

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• Catching sight of himself in the long mirrors that ran along the walls, he stiffened in shock...His eyes were surrounded by black shadows, his shirt smeared with dried blood and filthy mud... "Admiring yourself?" The Inquisitor's voice cut through his reverie. "You won't look so pretty when the Clave gets through with you." "You do seem obsessed with my look...Could it be that you're attracted to me?" "Don't be revolting...You could be my son.

  Cassandra Clare

  Wall, Eye, Son

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