Obsession Quotes - Page 28

• No-one inspired me growing up more than Thom Yorke. I was eleven when the obsession hit hard and I'm still such a huge fan.

  Stacey King

  Growing Up, Fans, Inspired

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• But what I realized when I was looking back at them was that no matter how different they are, they're still coming from me, and they're still coming from my brain and my set of obsessions. I think that no matter how different I tried to make them, there were just these certain questions that I just kept circling back to as I was writing. I think they were the ones I was really swept up in in that decade.

  Molly Antopol

  Writing, Thinking, Brain

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The Illusionist is the storyteller in so many ways. Symbols become his obsession. It's not simply about creating plot - one must also grapple with theme. Nowadays we have a lot of characters and a lot of action but it's hard to sit still and really meditate on meaning, worldviews, concepts, ideologies even. I make my Illusionist do what I've had to do, often with copious amounts of stumbling and frustration. His real humanity comes from being an artist, I think - his creativity is what makes him a man.

  Porochista Khakpour

  Real, Creativity, Character

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Speed is one of the great curses of modern civilization, obsession with speed leads to quantitative approach; we come to believe that more is better. This is very materialistic, we have to realize that it is the quality of life, quality of relationships, quality of food, medicine, education and everything else which matters.

  Satish Kumar

  Believe, Civilization, Medicine

  Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.

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• I'm in an odd place right now in New York where I routinely get trashed by every daily drama critic and have a few allies among weekly/monthly drama critics, and you sort of plot these things out and figure it out. But it's just what any writer goes through, periods of favor, periods of disfavor. And the trick is just to keep writing and to not let an obsession.

  Tony Kushner

  New York, Drama, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If you can come to this nowness without sex, sex, by and by will become useless, it will disappear. It will not be a desire then. If you want to move in it you can move into it as a fun, but not as a desire. Then there is no obsession in it because you are not dependent on it.

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Fun, Moving

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• There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. Its the art of putting all your energy into one thing; its the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.

  Renzo Piano

  Art, Italian, Lunch

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• If you try too much to change the outside, that shows that you are still attached. If a man tries to be detached, it shows attachment. Why bother about detachment if you are not attached? If a man escapes from women, it shows that sex is still the obsession. Otherwise, why escape from women if you are not obsessed?

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Men, Trying

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• to give life to sculpture I found it must have a pulse, a breathing quality that could change in a flash, and it must never appear static, hard, or unrevealing. All these demands formed themslves in my thoughts, and became like an endless obsession.

  Malvina Hoffman

  Art, Breathing, Giving

  Malvina Hoffman (1965). “Yesterday is Tomorrow: A Personal History”, New York : Crown Publishers

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• If one of God's children finds he cannot see or feel life in other terms than those of form, if he tries to escape and live outside of this obsession and fails, he generally calls himself a sculptor.

  Malvina Hoffman

  Art, Children, Trying

  Malvina Hoffman (1939). “Sculpture inside and out”

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• Writing is not hard work, it is simply an obsession.

  Hallie Burnett

  Hard Work, Writing, Working It

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• Apologies; our cultural obsession with them isn't about actually being offended, or simply needing to hear, “I'm sorry.” It's not really about right or wrong. It's about wanting to throw a rock in the dark and hear something break.

  Jim Norton

  Sorry, Dark, Apology

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• I think that America has an obsession with history, really.

  JJ Feild

  Thinking, America

  "JJ Feild, Gentleman Spy". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 14, 2013.

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• I used to live in Los Angeles, but I didn't want my kids to grow up in the thick of the obsession with movie-making. There's a lot of sensationalism and superficiality. I wanted to take my kids out of that and raise 'em up elsewhere, and I wanted to stop being preoccupied with whether my star is on the rise or the descent. I can't imagine having a much greater life, and I don't want to be preoccupied with things that don't matter. But of course, ironically, my two oldest daughters have decided that they're going to be actresses.

  Woody Harrelson

  Daughter, Stars, Growing Up

  "Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg". Interview with Steve Heisler, film.avclub.com. October 1, 2009.

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• Freedom from obsession is not about something you do; it's about knowing who you are. It's about recognizing what sustains you and what exhausts you. What you love and what you think you love because you believe you can't have it.

  Geneen Roth

  Inspiring, Believe, Health

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Jul 08, 2014

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• One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing into a habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession. Writing has to be an obsession. It has to be something as organic, physiological and psychological as speaking or sleeping or eating.

  Niyi Osundare

  Writing, Sleep, Eating

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• If meditate on the third eye and have headaches it means you are trying to pull in too much power from the occult chakra. The danger is obsession.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Eye, Buddhism

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• I'd love to be in a period drama - that's my obsession. But being a mixed-race actress, there aren't so many roles you're right for.

  Antonia Thomas

  Drama, Race, Roles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I like to make pies. Thats kind of my new obsession - peach, blueberry, apple, strawberry. I make a really good pumpkin pie with real pumpkin.

  Morgan Saylor

  Real, Apples, Pie

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• Ironically, white America will catapult books about race to the top of the best-seller list, even as racism remains a national open wound. Obsession ain't solution, however, because reading even at its most intense and verisimilitudinous is vicarious, and once you close the book you're off the hook.

  Marita Golden

  Book, Reading, Race

  Marita Golden, Susan Shreve (2011). “Skin Deep: Black Women & White Women Write About Race”, p.2, Anchor

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• A danger sign that fellow-obsessionals will at once recognize is the tendency to regard the happiest moments of your life as those that occur when someone who has an appointment to see you is prevented from coming.

  Peter Medawar

  Moments, Danger, Tendencies

  Peter Brian Medawar (1986). “Memoir of a thinking radish: an autobiography”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• These predators loved with wild fury, but they were also darkly possessive, crossing the boundary into what humans might term obsession.

  Nalini Singh

  Predator, Might, Boundaries

  Nalini Singh (2008). “Mine to Possess”, p.231, Penguin

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• ..the writer's obsession - the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest degree of precision.

  Ivan Klíma

  Desire, Degrees, Precision

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• I wonder why love is so often equated with joy when it is everything else as well. Devastation, balm, obsession, granting and receiving excessive value, and losing it again. It is recognition, often of what you are not but might be. It sears and it heals. It is beyond pity and above law. It can seem like truth.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Love Is, Law, Joy

  Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.41, Knopf

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• What's happened to marriage? The wedding-industrial complex. Brides get swept up in this world of obsession - it has to be your perfect day.

  Dave Barry

  Perfect Days, World, Brides

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