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    I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.

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    It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad.

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    It's a silly thing, but I like to understand people through their obsessions.

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    It's a privilege, you know, to paint and it takes up a lot of time and it means there's a lot of things you don't do. But still, with me, painting was more than a profession, it was also an obsession. I had to paint.

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    It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.

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    I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.

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    I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America.

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    I was obsessed with being rich and famous.

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    I was the fastest typist in my school, and I had an obsession with spelling and memorizing.

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    I was still too young to know that there is no such thing as love without trust. There is only obsession and co-dependence.

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    My obsessions used to be my protectors, but now they have taken me prisoner.

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    Like everyone else, I have my quirks. For one, I have to own only black cars and the registration has to have eights. It's not something I can explain, it's just there. Another obsession I have is smell. I have to smell good all the time.

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    Maybe because English is my second language, maybe I just translate mundane clichés from the Welsh language and they sound original in English. I am going through a bit of an obsession with bad puns. I am hoping I'll grow out of it. Maybe it's just a phase.

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    My New Obsession... is YOUR DESTRUCTION!!

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    I will be my undoing If I become my obsession.

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    Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.

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    My obsession when I was kid, from '85 into the '90s, was Gianni Versace. It was Helmut Lang. It was Margiela. So I said, "I cannot have Givenchy only as a luxury house; I'm going to introduce products for everybody, things that are reachable.

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    Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

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    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

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    Obsession with a consumerist lifestyle, above all when few people are capable of maintaining it, can only lead to violence and mutual destruction.

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    Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession.

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    Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless.

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    Obsession and repetition in the process of making things is one constant element in my work.

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    Obsession is a young man’s game.

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    Success in life is about obsession

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    Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism - the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and the release of the unconscious.

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    Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.

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    Sometime in 1964 I realized that I was a victim of a printmaking obsession, a condition that persists today.

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    [On Ronald Reagan:] Jane Wyman seemed more upset with her husband's obsession with politics than I. I tried to make her laugh. 'He'll outgrow it,' I told her. To her it wasn't funny.

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    Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.

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    Photography my passion, the search for truth, my obsession.

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    Sex has never been an obsession with me. It's just like eating a bag of crisps. Quite nice, but nothing marvellous.

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    Someone with an obsession for arranging things in alphabetical order was an abcedist, whereas someone with an obsession for arranging them in reverse alphabetical order was a zyxedist.

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    The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.

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    Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.

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    The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.

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    The danger in mysticism is that you push yourself too far into the nagual too soon. This is obsession.

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    The left's obsession with the high incomes of corporate executives never seems to extend to equally high - or higher - incomes of professional athletes, entertainers, or best-selling authors like Danielle Steel.

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    The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.

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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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    The fears and anxieties and obsessions wrapped up in being a parent.

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    The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire.

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    There are a number of things that set Southern artists apart from anyone else. Their obsession with place and their obsession with family.

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    The only thing that I'm obsessed with is sleeping, and actually, it is more than an obsession, it is a pleasure.

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    The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work.

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    There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.

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    The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.

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    The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

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    The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed.

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    The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves.