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• Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

  Meryl Streep

  Smart, Men, Attractive Things

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• You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

  John Irving

  Psychology, Obsessed, Owen Meany

  John Irving (1986). “The Hotel New Hampshire”

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• My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.

  Joaquin Phoenix

  Self, Personality, Suffering

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• The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.

  Iris Murdoch

  Life, Hurt, Pride

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• Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

  Elie Wiesel

  Life, Friendship, Relationship

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.57, Schocken

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• People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.

  Mick Jagger

  Selfish, People, Want

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• I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They're so earnest about it. But that's true of so many things.

  Christopher Guest

  People, World, Awareness

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

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• I'm obsessed with Led Zeppelin and have been since I was a teenager

  Dave Grohl

  Teenager, Zeppelins, Obsessed

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• I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.

  Illeana Douglas

  Character, Males

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.

  Marguerite Young

  Writing, Character, Obsessed

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• Zac Efron is my obsession, we're the same person. We're not actually here, it's like Janet and Michael Jackson. He just puts on his wig and a dress, and it's me, and you don't know that. It's one of the greatest mysteries of all time.

  Megan Fox

  Funny, Dresses, Wigs

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

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• The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

  Henry Moore

  Change, Creativity, Creative

  "Brainstorm: Harnessing the Power of Productive Obsessions". Book by Eric Maisel, ‎Ann Maisel, p. 95, 2010.

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• I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.

  Brooks Robinson

  Baseball, Passion, Names

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• My obsessions used to be my protectors, but now they have taken me prisoner.

  Mason Cooley

  Taken, Used, Prisoner

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• An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.

  Eric Clapton

  Mind

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• I am overrun, infested with a menagerie of desires.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Desire, Menagerie

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• Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.

  Anne Rice

  Book, Writing, Character

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• Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other then we did with anyone else. The three of us were like one person.

  Robin Gibb

  Three, Music Is, Persons

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

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• People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.

  Adam Arkin

  Thinking, People, Romance

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Obsession is a young man’s game.

  Michael Caine

  Men, Games, Young

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• The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

  George Sand

  Writing, Violent, Authorship

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• A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Ideas, People, Theory

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• My introduction to the Brady book was an attempt to nail the exact same idea since Brady addressed the point. And since I write pornography, naturally, something of an obsession for me.

  Peter Sotos

  Book, Writing, Ideas

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• Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  United States, Common, Stereotype

  Timothy Garton Ash (2012). “Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name”, p.124, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.

  Vanessa Marcil

  Beautiful, Thinking, Curves

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