"I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later."
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"Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to be an obsession."
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"My New Obsession... is YOUR DESTRUCTION!!"
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"Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure."
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"A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions."
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"A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession."
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"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."
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"I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon. At least they are mine now."
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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."
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"Positive obsession is about not being able to stop just because you're afraid and full of doubts. Positive obsession is dangerous. It's about not being able to stop at all."
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"Glam culture is ultimately rooted in obsession, and those of us who are truly devoted and loyal to the lifestyle of glamour are masters of its history. Or, to put it more elegantly, we are librarians."
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"The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns."
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"If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed."
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"I am almost sick and giddy with the quantity of things in my head, all tempting and wanting to be worked out."
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"The time has come to challenge our obsession with doing everything more quickly."
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"Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn't easy. But you can't live without it either. Talent is only 10 per cent. The rest is obsession."
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"I have an obsession with just watching people and what they're into."
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"My most favorite entrance music of all time... it's that, "You're my obsession, you're my obsession" song [Animotion's "Obsession"]."
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"I think obsessions happen because you're trying to understand something or some urge."
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"How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions."
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