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• Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Immortality, Humans, Universal

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• The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed.

  Wes Anderson

  Outsiders, Obsessed, Subjects

  "Royal leanings". Interview with Richard Matthews, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 13, 2002.

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• The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about.

  Stanley Crouch

  Self, Talking, Ideas

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• It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies.

  Mike Leigh

  Creeps, Millions

  Interview with Derek Malcolm, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2002.

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• Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

  Stanley Crouch

  Culture, Inclusion, Naive

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• As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years.

  James Ellroy

  Mother, Dad, Years

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• Work is my norm. I have mad energy, insane energy, a kind of stamina in terms of work that's a little crazy.

  Sidney Lumet

  Crazy, Mad, Insane

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• I have to work, for my soul.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Soul, My Soul

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• I didn't think it was fair to pretend to give of myself when I was so selfishly consumed with my own drives.

  Jackie Mason

  Thinking, Giving, My Own

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• The creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life is devoted.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  World, Life Is, Whole Life

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• I don't see how you can create and not have the feeling that it is the most important, all-consuming thing.

  Grace Hartigan

  Feelings, Important, Consuming

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• I work day and night without sleep. The paintings keep me fired up.

  Jules Olitski

  Sleep, Night, Painting

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• Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed by a particular problem.

  Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

  Art, Generations, Problem

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• When I was young, I was reading anything and anything I could lay my hands on. I was a veracious-to-the-point-of-insane reader.

  Neil Gaiman

  Reading, Hands, Insane

  "Neil Gaiman on libraries, Dr Who, fanatical fans and his dreams" by Michael MacLeod, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2011.

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• I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect, and how best to contribute in this world filled with contradiction, disparity, and inequality, even passion and opportunity.

  Frank Gehry

  Passion, Opportunity, Trying

  Casey C. M. Mathewson, Frank O. Gehry (2007). “Frank O. Gehry: Selected Works : 1969 to Today”, Firefly Books Limited

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• The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Writing, Ideas, Brain

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• I believe that all my work explores the human desire or obsession for utopias, and the structure of all my works is the search for utopias lost and rediscovered.

  Marguerite Young

  Believe, Desire, Utopia

  Marguerite Young (1999). “Harp Song for a Radical: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs”, Knopf

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• It's a privilege, you know, to paint and it takes up a lot of time and it means there's a lot of things you don't do. But still, with me, painting was more than a profession, it was also an obsession. I had to paint.

  Alice Neel

  Mean, Privilege, Painting

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• When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit.

  Mohsen Makhmalbaf

  Book, Years, Habit

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

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• The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire.

  Yahoo Serious

  Intelligent, Release, Should

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being forgotten, this debased coquetry?

  Emile M. Cioran

  Book, Writing, Fifty

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• Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.

  Pamela Stephenson

  Love Is, Healthy, Quality

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• I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they're not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli in Florence. It's a dream that won't come true.

  Berthe Morisot

  Dream, Orange, Tree

  Anne Higonnet, Berthe Morisot (1995). “Berthe Morisot”, p.199, Univ of California Press

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• In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Sex, Women, Memorable

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

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• Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.

  Andre Gide

  Believe, Sleep, Night

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