Obsessive Quotes
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
Patrick Rothfuss -
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
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I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.
Edna O'Brien -
Twitter freaks me out. You have followers? It feels so obsessive and proprietary.
Yasiin Bey Black Star -
I'm an obsessive. When I get a problem, a question in my mind, it can take me over.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
I would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says, 'Let's talk about something that matters'.
Zachary Quinto -
Yes I am definitely an 'Orange is the New Black' fan... Not an obsessive, but a fan none the less.
Rachel Shelley -
I think so much about everything. I'm obsessive.
Rob Zombie
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The Taboo crowd was certainly less precious. They were happy to end up in a pile of vomit and booze at the end of the night. It was antifashion, in a sense. They were just as obsessive as the New -Romantics but they acted like they didn't care.
Boy George Culture Club -
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 know a lot of people with obsessive qualities, and there's a positive and negative part to it. There's the appeal of someone who's so deadly focused on something that they want or desire - there's a dedication and a single-mindedness that's great. But then if it goes on too long it becomes a psychosis. What's the French term for it? Idee fixe.
Callum Keith Rennie -
I'm obsessive. I want to know the answer to how good I am. Most people aren't.
Daley Thompson -
I don't want to be a movie star like Angelina Jolie. Nothing about being a celebrity is desirable. I'm an actor. It's bizarre to me that everybody's so obsessive.
Kristen Stewart -
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
Joanne Rowling
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It's nice to collect stamps, but if it becomes obsessive, and you start stealing for your stamps, it becomes too much.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I am a bit obsessive about tidiness. I need to make my bed in the morning and leave it perfectly made up.
Kiefer Sutherland -
These people are obsessive. They go overboard interpreting verbal and behavioral cues that take them way beyond reality.
Cary Cooper -
Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future.
Will Self -
My work in general involves getting over my fears that are deeply embedded since childhood: Fear of darkness, fear of dangerous activities in general, and fear of dirt - I had a considerable obsessive compulsive disorder as a child.
Miru Kim
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Under the obsessive thoughts and plans, under the emotions, positive and negative, there is an ocean of peace.
Gangaji -
Some of my music requires an obsessive-compulsive approach and a real embodiment of excessiveness. So I really have to live in that world of overstimulation. Sometimes I think it's like a drug; more is more, and you can never get enough. The older I get, the more I crave that excessive aesthetic. It's never going to satisfy me.
Sufjan Stevens -
Sometimes I worry. Worrying is defined as obsessive examination of one’s own code.
Catherynne M. Valente -
Personally I'm obsessive-compulsive about the placement and cleanliness of my things.
Chace Crawford