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  • Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the same obsession as we have with our lovers.

    Heart   Character   Fire  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I could kiss you in the rain forever Turn all your pain to pleasure Fill up all your days with sunlight Make the passion last every night Give you my every possesion Make you my only obsession Climb up to the sky and pull down all the stars above But I could never love you enough

    Country   Song   Stars  
  • 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.

  • In an age in which we can project an image and score that image based on immediate Facebook and Twitter feedback, thus making a video game of life and a false-reality composed of lies, what gets lost is a joyful obsession with the work we create from the purest of motives, a sheer joy in the act of creation itself that causes us to lose ourselves in something else, and in a way die to ourselves over the absolute love of a thing we are breathing into life.

  • Objects always meet your obsession. Once you have an obsession, you step on it at every corner.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Hinduism is wholly free from the strange obsession of some faiths that the acceptance of a particular religious metaphysics is necessary for salvation, and non-acceptance thereof is a heinous sin meriting eternal punishment in hell.

  • My introduction to the Brady book was an attempt to nail the exact same idea since Brady addressed the point. And since I write pornography, naturally, something of an obsession for me.

    Book   Writing   Ideas  
  • An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.

    Mind   Obsession  
  • My spiritual journey has been a good kind of thing I've been on. I guess some people would say I'm obsessed with it, but in a really good way. It's just enjoyable. I don't really have crazy obsessions about things.

    "Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen and Joel Schumacher Interviewed - 'The Number 23'". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 21, 2007.
  • Like Nietzsche's own writings on education, most of mine were relatively youthful ones. Both were inspired by a critical animus against prevailing trends in education: in Nietzsche's case, the production either of 'useless', dry-as-dust scholars or people 'useful' for the needs of an expanding industrial economy; in my case, a similar subjection of education to economic imperatives, but also to ideological obsessions, notably with promoting 'equality'.

    Writing   Dust   People  
    Source: www.3ammagazine.com
  • We have been a little insane about the truth. We have had an obsession.

    Truth   Insane   Littles  
    Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination”, p.33, Vintage
  • Perfection I've lived with the pretense of perfection for seventeen years. Give my room a cursory inspection, you'd think I have OCD. But it's only habit and not obsession that keeps it all orderly. Of course, I don't want to give the impression that it's all up to me.

    Thinking   Years   Giving  
    Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.675, Simon and Schuster
  • Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

  • I'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.

    Revenge   Men   Thinking  
    "Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Johnny Depp interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.
  • Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence manifest from the first sentence to fascinate the reader, to make him lose contact with the dull reality that surrounds him, submerging him in another that is more intense and compelling.

  • What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism.

    "The new head of the Anglican church ... in his own words" by Stephen Bates, www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2002.
  • Obsession is such a naughty word - it's a very intense word. I'm obsessed with music, always have been. I can't lie. And I'm obviously obsessed with my child, my child's life and the little things that he does.

    "Fool's Gold - Kate Hudson interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.
  • "Half genius and half buffoon," Freeman Dyson ... wrote. ... [Richard] Feynman struck him as uproariously American-unbuttoned and burning with physical energy. It took him a while to realize how obsessively his new friend was tunneling into the very bedrock of modern science.

    James Gleick (2011). “Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman”, p.8, Open Road Media
  • 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.

  • The big problem with power, of course, is obsession. Once you get some of it and feel it, it dominates your whole life and it's all you can think about. That doesn't have to happen.

  • To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions.

    Self   Chance   Obsession  
    "Dime-store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell". Book by Charles Simic, therumpus.net. 1992.
  • I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.

    Needs   Obsession   Film  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Without obsession, life is nothing.

  • Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

  • It's a passion when you're doing it for other people and you're doing it for the people around you making the film and the people who are going to see the film, and the giving. When you start thinking about you doing it for some sort of self-gain, then I think it becomes an obsession. It becomes a negative experience.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • We have to free the Muslim mind from the obsession with limits and rules and forgetting the path and objective. This is truly a liberating process, and for me this is Islam: liberation from the ego, and in this case liberating ourselves from the wrong understanding of the religion.

    Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com
  • My obsession is to make women beautiful. When you create with that in mind, things can't go out of fashion.

  • My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because islands are small self-contained worlds that can help us understand larger ones.

    Islands   Self   World  
  • Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession.

    Cities   Obsession   Lost  
    Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King, Dyslexic edition”, p.34, Lulu.com
  • Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

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