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Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art -- Susan Sontag
Hungry people are always thinking about food; poor people are always thinking about wealth. Obsessive thinking can kill your dreams! -- Stephen Richards
I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs. -- David Beckham
I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good. -- Barbra Streisand
I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser. -- Gates McFadden
What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay. -- Moby
Obsessive devotion to creating can spark that which is called 'genius.' Smarter or more gifted? The 'madness' is the insatiable drive to discover, achieve and create. Monomania can develop into 'genius,' as the individual delves deeper into the process leaving normal parameters behind. -- Paul Russo
Obsessive use of meditative disciplines or perennial study of scripture and philosophy will never bring forth this wonderful realization, this truth which is natural to awareness, because the mind that desperately desires to reach another realm or level of experience inadvertently ignores the basic light that constitutes all experience. -- Tilopa
I love working with people who are inspired and obsessive. -- Nicole Kidman
Children surviving childhood is my obsessive theme and my life's concern, -- Maurice Sendak
Twitter freaks me out. You have followers? It feels so obsessive and proprietary. -- Mos Def
I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning. -- Karl Lagerfeld
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love. -- J. K. Rowling
The moment we let go of our obsessive concern for our own welfare, our mind naturally relaxes and becomes lighter. -- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
There is practically no activity that cannot be enhanced or replaced by knitting, if you really want to get obsessive about it. -- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a great deal to add. -- Gore Vidal
An obsessive attention to the news, I've realized, only serves to paint a picture of the world as a throbbing blob of dysfunction, most news falling somewhere on a scale from disappointing to calamitous. -- Josh Radnor
It was always about love. Always, always about love. Lost love, love denied, the obsessive hunger for love. Parental or romantic. Whether it was twisted or pure, fulfilled or unrequited, love was always at the source. -- James W. Hall
If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven. -- Ben Elton
I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure. -- Marina Abramovic
The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are precisely the tendencies in our psychological makup that the psychedelics mitigate. The plant hallucinogens dissolve habits and hold motivations up to inspection by a wider, less egocentric, and more grounded point of view within the individual. -- Terence McKenna
I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries-the realists of a larger reality. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
[W]e have more than two options... a critique of reason does not have to be a call for the return of superstition and arbitrary power.... [O]ur problems do not lie with reason itself but with our obsessive treatment of reason as an absolute value. Certainly it is one of our qualities, but it functions positively only when balanced and limited by the others. -- John Ralston Saul
You have to be able to observe life as if you were a camera all the time, constantly looking at light and the way that things are placed and the way people hold themselves. You need the ability to see something in someone or something that no one else really sees and be able to bring that to light. Basically, you have to be an obsessive crazy person. -- Ryan McGinley
Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery. Writing fiction, for me, is about putting on paper my obsessive interest in something mysterious. I may figure out the source of the mystery, the things that brought some action or image to my mind, but to make an equation of it would ruin the story. -- Antonya Nelson
I become kind of obsessive about research. -- James Franco
Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. -- Phil Spector
My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive. -- David Fincher
I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well. -- Tom Ford
I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of. -- Marina Abramovic
When you're obsessive, like me, searching for something unattainable can become unhealthy... it's like falling through the air and grabbing at the clouds. -- Jonny Wilkinson
I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all. -- Barbra Streisand
As a child, I loved being onstage. I loved singing, I loved the lights, I loved the adrenaline. I even loved learning lines. I was completely obsessive. -- Emma Watson
I never was obsessive about anything I watched when I was a kid, except maybe 'The A-Team' and 'Airwolf'... And I loved 'Knight Rider' and then later 'Baywatch.' -- Benedict Cumberbatch
My own position is so far on the obsessive side of preparation and professionalism that I fear my point of view is not going to be shared by anyone. -- Jonny Wilkinson
While it is often true that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, it seems like Yahoo's almost obsessive focus on Google is taking away from its other businesses. -- Kara Swisher
I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa. -- John Dalton
I made a film called 'Bad Timing' that I thought everybody would respond to. It was about obsessive love and physical obsession. I thought this must touch everyone, from university dons down. -- Nicolas Roeg
I'm obsessive about the kind of melodrama of getting through the days and trying to make them good and funny and a happy experience. But my feeling towards the fans is that they delivered me from darkness. -- Tom Baker
The comptroller of New York City ought to have all the characteristics of a major corporation's CFO - quiet rigor, obsessive care for detail, incorruptible judgment, an ability to work assiduously behind the scenes with the key stakeholders. -- Tina Brown
I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation. -- Geoffrey Rush
Manchester United could have any goalkeeper in the world. I was a 23-year-old kid from New Jersey who, from an early age, had to cope with Tourette's Syndrome, a brain disorder that can trigger speech and facial tics, vocal outbursts and obsessive compulsive behavior. -- Tim Howard
You work with people who are obsessive about shopping, obsessive about owning things and buying things, like this purchase is going to make them happy. And you want to say to them, 'You know, no amount of real estate is gonna fill that void.' -- David LaChapelle
Our obsessive focus on college schooling has blinded us to basic truths. College is a place, not a magic formula. It matters what subjects students study, and subsidies should focus on the subjects that matter the most - not to the students, but to everyone else. -- Alex Tabarrok
There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior. -- David Byrne
The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off and you peel them away and then you're asked to dance again and keep smiling. I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer. -- Penelope Cruz
I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do. -- Jon Favreau
I am an obsessive flyer, myself. -- Jason Reitman
He's famous for being obsessive about details. -- Matt Damon
I'm an obsessive person. I like intensity. -- Mandy Patinkin
I know I have an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive side. -- Demi Moore
Good things come to obsessive compulsives who fixate. -- Kieran Culkin
I think so much about everything. I'm obsessive. -- Rob Zombie
I get a little too obsessive with work. -- Eli Roth
love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized! -- Eric Jerome Dickey
I am not obsessive about anything except my health. -- Linda Gray
I become quite obsessive when I get into something. -- Victoria Beckham
When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive. -- Daniel Craig
The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts. -- Theodore Sturgeon
I'm kind of an obsessive-compulsive person, like, neat obsessive. -- Liev Schreiber
I'm as obsessive with health as I was with destruction. -- Dave Navarro
Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. -- Phil Spector
I interview every employeeand I have 3000 employees. It's an obsessive sickness. -- Stephen Starr
Personally I'm obsessive-compulsive about the placement and cleanliness of my things. -- Chace Crawford
I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life. -- Eddi Reader
I'm a terrible sleeper. I get obsessive, repetitive thoughts and it's horrible. -- Eliot Paulina Sumner
My father was an obsessive bird-watcher. The genes of observation passed down. -- Martin Parr
The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death. -- Georges Bataille
I've always had that obsessive will to win and a commitment to excellence. -- Sumner Redstone
I am a really obsessive music listener, and I would look for clues. -- Craig Finn
Love" and all the obsessive behaviors associated with it, was an absurd emotion. -- Judith McNaught
Kiss me twice, I am schizophrenic .. Kiss me ten times, I am obsessive! -- ???? ?????
I do seem like the kind of guy who'd be obsessive about Rubik's Cubes. -- Chris Hardwick
The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. -- George Leonard
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I'm a hygiene freak. I'm like obsessive-compulsive when it comes to washing your hands. -- Kelly Clarkson
Curing yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder by going to a strip club is pretty strange. -- Tracy Kidder
I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well -- Tom Ford
Fashion is this obsessive narrative that people don't understand but they can't stop looking at. -- Rita Ora
Oh my gosh, I feel like I'm really obsessive about anything dealing with my health. -- Ginnifer Goodwin
I just always wonder if I'm too obsessive about subjects. I try to avoid that. -- Gary Gulman
I'm often called obsessive, but I don't think I am any more than anyone else. -- Nicholson Baker
Some crushes just never went away. They built, instead, into something permanent, obsessive and all consuming. -- Maya Banks
Limerence is an obsessive, unrequited love. It is actually a disorder. A disease if you will. -- Elizabeth Cohen
I think I have minor obsessive compulsive disorder. Everything has to be tidy and just right. -- Bobby Davro
I'm obsessive. I want to know the answer to how good I am. Most people aren't. -- Daley Thompson
Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it. -- Eli Broad
In our obsessive wish to arrive, we often forget the most important thing, which is the journey. -- Paulo Coelho
All of us task-oriented obsessive compulsives must learn to slow down and let people into our lives. -- Hans Finzel
I am methodical to the point of being obsessive-compulsive. And I have always been good at multi-tasking. -- Deepika Padukone
I'm an obsessive writer who needs and loves revision. Writing helps me learn and helps me teach. -- Kiese Laymon
Anorexia is a disease that happens to people, mostly women and girls, who have obsessive, perfectionist personalities. -- Crystal Renn
I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it. -- Shawn Johnson
I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive. -- George Hamilton
These people are obsessive. They go overboard interpreting verbal and behavioral cues that take them way beyond reality. -- Cary Cooper
Under the obsessive thoughts and plans, under the emotions, positive and negative, there is an ocean of peace. -- Gangaji
Strength and victory... What he would never praise himself for, but whose loss was his most obsessive fear. -- Simona Panova
Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching. -- Michael Heseltine
To win it all, winners have to be obsessive about the fundamentals and doing the little things right. -- Don Meyer
I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
I was told I have obsessive behavioral traits. I looked up everything to do with obsession after that. -- Willow Madison
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As a child, I was consumed with a near-obsessive curiosity about what the world felt like for other creatures. -- John Burnside
I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it. -- Hanif Kureishi
It is really important to have an obsessive need to construct something, to understand something from your own experience. -- Gregory Crewdson
I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day. -- Felicia Day
I don't have this obsessive need to do street art all the time because it's already opened doors for me. -- Shepard Fairey
I modelled in my 20s, and it was an obsessive time. I was under pressure to look a certain way. -- Penny Lancaster
I think I'm probably quite geeky in a lot of ways. I'm pretty into books, kind of obsessive about that. -- Alice Eve
I was obsessed with Tupac - like eat, sleep, breathe Tupac. During this obsessive love affair, I dressed the part. -- Priyanka Chopra
A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status -- D. B. Weiss
Some people are probably saner. They're good performers, and they go about their day. I just get obsessive about it. -- Judd Apatow
I categorize nerds as creative-obsessive. A lot of nerds are creative people who obsess almost unnaturally over the minutiae of things. -- Chris Hardwick
There is space for a different kind of investigative reporting that's about immersion and obsessive attention to detail and deep listening. -- Sarah Stillman
I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep. -- Joni Mitchell
It's nice to collect stamps, but if it becomes obsessive, and you start stealing for your stamps, it becomes too much. -- Mick Jagger
Psychopaths don't have that charming skill set. They definitely manipulate, but they do it through focused, unskilled means. They're more obsessive. -- Patrick Heusinger
I have an addictive personality. I was addicted to computer games... and then all that obsessive nature just piled into music. -- Chet Faker
While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it. -- Robert Genn
Jude [Law] is really good at playing an obsessive. He has a very watchable quality when he's on a quest for something. -- Steven Soderbergh

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