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Obsessions turn people off. -- Grover Norquist
Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out. -- Sybil Adelman
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
In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions. -- Andres Serrano
If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed. --
An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine. -- Andres Serrano
It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions. -- Robert Bly
A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions. -- Emile M. Cioran
All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers. -- Catherine Deneuve
The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life. -- Mary Ellen Mark
Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them. -- Pamela Stephenson
My interests and obsessions have always been so wide-ranging that I keep popping my head out of different boxes as much as possible. -- Tim Curry
I'm gradually working through my obsessions, and maybe, when they're all free and clear, I'll write a comedy. But I'm not there yet. -- Alice Sebold
I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football. -- Alan Davies
What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far. -- Leon Wieseltier
Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories. -- Mario Vargas Llosa
I have any number of completely dark obsessions and fascinations, and none of this was present in my profile or my growing profile as a writer. -- Justin Cronin
We read and remember certain writers because they offer distinctive voices and perspectives, because they've given themselves over completely and passionately to their obsessions while vigorously ignoring everything else. -- Chang-Rae Lee
The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If we're lucky, we all have at least one. -- Roberta Smith
The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. -- John Updike
Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions. -- Bruce Springsteen
In a way, I had a very good and normal childhood. I had loving and caring parents. But I had a lot of quirks or problems when I was growing up. I had phobias and obsessions. -- Elyn Saks
I think that all stories - if you make movies about zombies and aliens - it has always to do with your personal story. If not directly, it is about your fears, your obsessions, things like that. -- Marjane Satrapi
When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh. -- Amartya Sen
Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration between one's conscious mind and those obsessions that, one by one, present themselves as stepping-stones. -- J. G. Ballard
I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession. -- J. G. Ballard
Global security can be formed or threatened by heads of state whose wisdom, folly and obsessions shape global events. But often it is the security practitioners, those rarely in the headlines but whose craft and energy quietly break new ground, who keep us safe or put us in peril. -- Michael Hayden
My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood. -- Natasha Trethewey
... obsessions are always dangerous. -- Agatha Christie
I don't understand people's obsessions. -- FKA twigs
Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. -- Franz Kafka
Writing is putting one's obsessions in order. -- Jean Grenier
In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies. -- Stephen King
To be a success, follow your obsessions obsessively. -- Debasish Mridha
Simple ideas become obsessions, almost like a meditation. -- Mary Heilmann
You repeat things because they're like your personal obsessions -- Wendy Carlos
An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions... -- Andres Serrano
People see everything through the lens of their obsessions. -- Francine Prose
And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger. -- Ian Fleming
I don't like Paradise,As they probably don't have obsessions there. -- Alda Merini
I have a few obsessions in life, and one is shoes! -- Danielle Steel
Your job is to get your audience to care about your obsessions. -- Martin Scorsese
The fears and anxieties and obsessions wrapped up in being a parent. -- Vera Farmiga
My personal obsessions are much more interesting to me than other people's. -- Peter Greenaway
To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions. -- Charles Simic
Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience. -- Paolo Bacigalupi
duty, the most indecent of all obsessions, was only another name for love. -- Colleen McCullough
It's a silly thing, but I like to understand people through their obsessions. -- Amber Dermont
I think obsessions happen because you're trying to understand something or some urge. -- Jim Carrey
My obsessions used to be my protectors, but now they have taken me prisoner. -- Mason Cooley
With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious. -- Steve Martin
I'm very interested in language because it reflects our obsessions and ways of conceptualising the world. -- Steven Pinker
I love flat shoes, more so than heels. One of my obsessions is men's co-respondent lace-ups. -- Twiggy
I think I have mental problems, I think I have like weird obsessions with things, really annoying. -- Kourtney Kardashian
I think it's obsessions that a lot of people share, but they don't dare to talk about openly. -- Julie Delpy
Irrational crushes, infatuations, or obsessions. Whatever you want to label it, it's important to reach out to others. -- Janeane Garofalo
I'm not a computer guy. I'm like an anthropologist. I'm fascinated with people's obsessions. I've learned to wear them. -- William Gibson
Thought changes structure... I saw people rewire their brains with their thoughts, to cure previously incurable obsessions and trauma. -- Norman Doidge
How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions. -- D. H. Lawrence
I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them. -- Scarlett Thomas
The mind has a complex life that can seem quite autonomous - dreams, obsessions, unwilled memory are all instances of this. -- Marilynne Robinson
Many of the poets I most admire have a way of embodying their peculiar obsessions via landscape that can sometimes seem magical. -- Anna Journey
Teach people to let go of their superficial mental chatter and obsessions. Teach people to pay attention to the whole body's reaction to a situation. -- John Heider
Many of our threats are imaginary. The habits and even obsessions that we develop to keep them away are destructive and undermine our moods constantly. -- Liz Miller
Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can't forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released. -- Natalie Goldberg
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
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. -- Franz Kafka
There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. Admirable gardens of absurd beliefs, forebodings, obsessions and frenzies. Unknown, ever-changing gods take shape there. -- Louis Aragon
m a big fan of revenge, I think [Sweeney Todd] it's a story of a man who clearly has obsessions to avenge the horror that happened to him. -- Johnny Depp
Girls have all the same parts, basically, and so much of how they look depends on the attitude, expectations, and obsessions of those who are looking at them. -- Frank Portman
If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness as much as hatred and death. -- Elie Wiesel
'm a big fan of revenge, I think [Sweeney Todd] it's a story of a man who clearly has obsessions to avenge the horror that happened to him. -- Johnny Depp
The best painting comes out of compulsions and obsessions, out of deep love or hate, out of intellectual or emotional involvement with something that lies outside the painting itself. -- Edward Betts
There's always something else to work on and different solutions to these problems in the next thing. We each have a certain set of obsessions which we each cycle through. -- Leni Zumas
We're all misfits herefrom our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions. From all those wild and wacky things that make each of us unique. -- Terri Windling
People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is. -- Iris Murdoch
Indigo has a purifying, stabilizing, cleansing effect when fear, repression, and obsessions have disturbed your mental body. Indigo food vibrations are: blackberries, blue plums, blueberries, purple brocoli, beetroot, and purple grapes. -- Tae Yun Kim
I went through various stages in my childhood, as we all do, various stages of obsessions with people and things. And I did. I wanted to be the first white Harlem Globetrotter. -- Johnny Depp
. . . All artistsâ?? work is autobiographical. Any writerâ??s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are, what their obsessions are, and what interests them. -- Kim Addonizio
Mi-yammi! The extraordinary city, with its Judeo-Cubano population, its mix of surgical-appliance and sex-fetishist obsessions, takes the American melting pot past the boil. It represents pretty much everything Patrick J. Buchanan hates. -- David Denby
I've come within range of hate. Terrifying, its tremors, its dizzying obsessions. Hate's like a swordfish invisible in the water, knifing suddenly into sight with blood on its blade- clear water misleads you. -- Pablo Neruda
Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art -- Salvador Dali
I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a good mood, without any troubles and obsessions, laughing senselessly from morning to night. -- Emile M. Cioran
Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and diversity of the world, leaving you prey to your private obsessions. -- Emile M. Cioran

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