Obsession Quotes - Page 36

• I think the camera was always my obsession, the camera movements. Because for me it's the most important thing in the move, the camera, because without the camera, film is just a stage or television - nothing.

  Dario Argento

  Moving, Thinking, Important

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. September 23, 2008.

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• Do you agree that when theres tension and an obsession to want to hit the ball is when you hit it worst? You have to be loose.

  Enrique Pena Nieto

  Balls, Want, Worst

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• Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language or code. Myth is the "morality" that the ineffable puts upon us, our unaccountable imperatives, our inexplicably selective clarity and obscurity, the mortal one-sidedness of our talents and wits, the passion and apathy that make such a transient passage through our hapless minds; that weave a pattern of fatality others will see before we do. Myth is distinctively human or sublime higher-order instinct, the "reason" in culture that reason knows not of.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Passion, Order

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• I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Writing, Order

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• Simple ideas become obsessions, almost like a meditation.

  Mary Heilmann

  Simple, Ideas, Meditation

  "Every Piece has a Backstory". Art21 Interview, art21.org. 2008.

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• I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Curse, Compulsion, I Can

  "Juliana Hatfield on life after the spotlight fades". www.today.com. September 16, 2008.

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• I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.

  Brian De Palma

  Trying, Kind, Storytelling

  Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.177, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Dostoevsky wrote fiction about identity, moral value, death, will, sexual vs. spiritual love, greed, freedom, obsession, reason, faith, suicide. And he did it without ever reducing his characters to mouthpieces or his books to tracts. His concern was always what it is to be a human being—that is, how to be an actual *person*, someone whose life is informed by values and principles, instead of just an especially shrewd kind of self-preserving animal.

  David Foster Wallace

  Suicide, Spiritual, Book

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• Growing up I was always prone to obsession, partly because of the way I am, but partly because after feeling so lonely for such a long time, when I found someone or something that I liked, I felt helplessly drawn to it. I suppose that accounts for some of the creepiness in my music.

  Lana Del Rey

  Lonely, Growing Up, Found Someone

  "Original Sin: An Interview With Lana Del Rey". Interview with John Calvert, thequietus.com. October 4, 2011.

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• I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of my generation and I started out covering it so I stayed with it.

  Neil Sheehan

  War, Years, Events

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• I'm fond of observing how obsession is the most durable form of intellectual capital.

  Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

  Intellectual, Form, Observing

  Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Adam Frank (2003). “Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity”, p.2, Duke University Press

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