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• Use your time to bathe yourself in the gift. Move your hand across the canvas. Go to museums. Make this into an obsession.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Moving, Museums, Hands

  Anna Deavere Smith (2008). “Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind”, p.36, Anchor

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• Everyone has a self-destructive nature in them. It's whether you feed it or not. You don't have to be a pop star to feel connected to destruction or self-destruction. But self-destruction is self-obsession, and self-obsession is not really possible if you're engaged in raising children. And if you have a spiritual life, you're constantly being asked to see yourself as one small fragment in the bigger picture.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Spiritual, Stars, Children

  Source: www.independent.ie

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• The only reason we write - well, the only reason why I write; maybe I shouldn't generalize - is so that I can find out something about myself. Writers have this narcissistic obsession about how we got to be who we are. I have to understand my ancestors - my father, his mother and her mother - to understand who I am. It all leads back to the narcissistic pleasure of discovering yourself.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Mother, Father, Writing

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• I worked as an actor for a few years before anything happened, so I'm used to going up for auditions, and then not getting the role. But sometimes I don't read the book of the film, in case I just totally fall in love with it, and then it just becomes an obsession and you want to do it so much because you've completely fallen in love with the story and the characters. And then, if the part doesn't go your way, it's heartbreaking. So, there's a certain amount of distance you have to keep before you can throw yourself in 100%.

  Jim Sturgess

  Falling In Love, Distance, Book

  Source: collider.com

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• It's been an obsession of various genres, disciplines, and aspects and elements of movie-making. It's always been something that I've really aspired to, so doing something new and different, reinventing myself and working with new people is just the passport to the amazing world that is the movies.

  David Gordon Green

  Discipline, People, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• Man's obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.

  Maimonides

  Men, Honor, Add

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• I'm always writing music. I sort of do it obsessively, for good or for bad. It's good that it keeps me going, but it's bad because it really is sort of like an obsession where you can't stop sometimes and it'll keep you up at night and ruin your weekend.

  Hamilton Leithauser

  Writing, Weekend, Night

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What's so beautiful about breasts is their uniqueness. I don't understand the obsession with fakeness. It's a very odd thing, isn't it, to prefer fake and big to small and unique or just beautiful and real.

  Anne Heche

  Beautiful, Real, Unique

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• If you truly desire money so keenly that your desire is an obsession, you will have no difficulty in convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want money, and to be so determined to have it that you convince yourself that you will have it.

  Napoleon Hill

  Convincing Yourself, Desire, Want

  Napoleon Hill, Wallace D. Wattles (2012). “Get Rich Collection”, p.25, Penguin

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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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• We amateur athletes are peculiarly devoted to our fitness, and our obsessions can sometimes be a burden to our loved ones and a mystery to everyone else.

  Peter Sagal

  Athlete, Mystery, Sometimes

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

  E. M. Forster

  Purity, Obsessed, Reformers

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• Films, like memories, seem to re-shoot themselves over the years, reflecting our latest needs and obsessions. In many cases they can change completely, and reveal unexpected depths and shallows. Will Four Weddings and a Funeral be seen one day as a vicious social satire? Could Jaws become as tearful and sentimental as Bambi?

  J. G. Ballard

  Memories, Years, Funeral

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• Today the heart of God is an open wound of love. He aches over our distance and preoccupation. He mourns that we do not draw near to Him. He grieves that we have forgotten Him. He weeps over our obsession with muchness and manyness. He longs for our presence.

  Richard J. Foster

  Distance, Heart, Grieving

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies.

  Roland Emmerich

  Hate, Hollywood, Obsessed

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• I think I'm fascinated with history and - just in general. And I'm always interested in how did - how did this come to be? Why is this the way it is? And even singing classical voice, I quickly became more and more interested with early music, baroque voice. And that became an obsession to me - just figuring out how - who are the ancestors of whatever it is.

  Cecile McLorin Salvant

  Thinking, Voice, Singing

  "Jazz Singer Cécile McLorin Salvant Doesn't Want To Sound 'Clean And Pretty'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 4, 2015.

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• I'm proud of Russia, that's true. And we have something to be proud of, but we do not have any obsession with being a superpower in the international arena.

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Proud, Arena

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I think it's obsessions that a lot of people share, but they don't dare to talk about openly.

  Julie Delpy

  Thinking, People, Share

  "Julie Delpy's Entropic Vacation". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 9, 2012.

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• I was never really obsessed with the whole guy thing to begin with.

  Beverley Mitchell

  Guy, Obsessed, Whole

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• I don't even think about the word. But I do have certain things where I just go, "Aaaaahhh," irritatingly boring and insistent because I want it to look that way and I can do it - I don't even know if you'd call it passion or obsession. Obsession, possibly, but I really love what I do.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Passion, Thinking, Looks

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I would say 70 percent of people who are in therapy are in therapy not because of their upbringing, not because of their mean sister or obsessions, but because of anxiety brought about by lack of financial security.

  John Hodgman

  Mean, People, Anxiety

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.

  Joanna Newsom

  School, Years, Obsessed

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Now I am obsessed with collecting Platypus paraphernalia.

  Trevor Dunn

  Obsessed, Platypus, Collecting

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• I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.

  Patricia Clarkson

  Obsessed, Needed, Knows

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• I don't really write journals and stuff and then adapt them to music, it's completely within the form of the song. My great obsession and basically the bane of my existence is caring probably too much about every word, but it's too late to change my career path.

  Emily Haines

  Song, Writing, Caring

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

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