"A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed."
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"I think I was always obsessed with esthetics."
"I grew up in the countryside, and I was obsessed with horses and wildlife."
"The more obsessed one is with getting thin, the more certain it becomes that one will never get there."
"Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine."
"You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you're obsessed with yourself, and I'm not - you can become unhinged so easily."
"I'm obsessed with smells even more than makeup."
"I'm actually really obsessed with Bruce Springsteen."
"Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born."
"I'm really obsessed with the past."
"Whenever I really want a part, I'm not sure what to do. How do I let the director know how obsessed I am and willing to do anything for the movie?"
"Im obsessed with leather jackets!"
"Europeans used to say Americans were puritanical. Then they discovered that we were not puritans. So now they say that we are obsessed with sex."
"I am really obsessed with finding melodies that just hypnotize you and sink you into a song."