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I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.
Cynthia Ozick
Writing
Out
Write
Obsession
Read
Order
Writing is very good for household tasks. Because you'd rather fix a dripping tap or paint an old wall - you'd rather do almost anything than sit and write. I have to reach a point of obsession in order to write, and so I find starting a book incredibly difficult.
Damon Galgut
Good
You
Book
Writing
Old
Sit
Difficult
Incredibly
Find
Rather
Point
Dripping
Write
Almost
Almost Anything
Obsession
Reach
Household
Because
Tap
Very
Than
Fix
Wall
Tasks
Order
Anything
Paint
Starting
Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.
Damon Galgut
Needs
Unconscious
Obsession
Real
Motivation
Behind
Before I go up against the best forwards in the world - Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Neymar - I study their strengths and weaknesses like an obsession, and then I plan how I am going to attack. My goal is to show the world that Dani Alves is on the same level.
Dani Alves
Best
World
Before
Weaknesses
Attack
Study
Obsession
Like
Messi
How
Am
Go
Goal
Up
Lionel
Same
Same Level
Going
Against
Plan
Then
Show
Forwards
Level
Strengths
For me, work is both a hobby and a passion. And sometimes an obsession.
Daniel Lubetzky
Work
Me
Sometimes
Passion
Both
Obsession
Hobby
Our country's growing obsession with organized sports isn't just hurting our children, but also our communities. As play is siphoned off to gyms and fields, fewer kids are playing in our streets, parks, and playgrounds.
Darell Hammond
Sports
Country
Our
Kids
Hurting
Parks
Obsession
Also
Off
Fewer
Just
Children
Fields
Communities
Organized
Growing
Play
Streets
Playing
I was born in 1971, and Tom Baker was sort of my obsession as a kid and that's why we got him to do the voice over for 'Little Britain' because I was actually obsessed with Tom Baker.
David Walliams
Kid
Born
Voice
Voice-Over
Obsessed
Obsession
Over
Baker
Him
Sort
Because
Got
Little
Tom
Why
Actually
Britain
I had an obsession with underarm shields - pointy ones, round ones, full ones, half ones.
Dawn Steel
Half
Had
Obsession
Full
Round
I think all males from Detroit have an obsession with cars.
Dax Shepard
Car
Think
Detroit
Obsession
Males
I have an obsession with books about kids with Asperger's syndrome.
Donald Glover
Syndrome
Books
Kids
About
Obsession
Articles always end up being about my appearance. I had a conversation with Jude Law: he told me people's obsession with looks goes away after a while.
Douglas Booth
Me
Conversation
People
Law
About
Had
He
Obsession
Looks
Jude
Always
End
Up
Articles
Goes
Being
After
While
Appearance
Away
An obsession is where something will not leave your mind.
Eric Clapton
Mind
Will
Something
Obsession
Leave
Where
Your
I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.
Eric Kripke
Folklore
Lifelong
Had
Obsession
American
Legends
Urban
I don't think I have an obsession, however I do eat chocolate every day.
Eric Ripert
Day
Every Day
Every
Think
Eat
Obsession
However
Chocolate
In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.
Ethan Hawke
Society
Our
Kind
Neurosis
Lead
Perfection
Obsession
Stuff
Self-Loathing
Hollywood
What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
Eugene Delacroix
Work
Genius
Enough
Those
Inspires
Idea
Obsession
New
Ideas
Said
New Ideas
Still
Been
Moves
The top quark was discovered in 1995, and since then, the Higgs has become our obsession because the standard model was incomplete without it.
Fabiola Gianotti
Become
Incomplete
Our
Top
Obsession
Since
Because
Without
Discovered
Model
Then
Standard
Because I'd grown up with this singular focus on sports, I just kind of did that with acting. That became an obsession. How am I going to make it? How am I going to figure that out?
Frankie Shaw
Sports
Focus
Out
Kind
Obsession
Make
Became
Because
How
Am
Singular
Up
Did
Going
Just
Just Kind
Acting
Figure
Grown
Grown-Up
My obsession with outer space is my way of being different. I make astronaut music. It takes an astronaut so long to get to space - that's how long it takes to catch up on my music.
Future
Music
Space
Long
Way
Astronaut
Outer
Outer Space
Catch
Takes
Obsession
Make
How
Up
Get
Being
Different
Being Different
I don't think it should be allowed for people to start working at a young age and not take the time to just be living as themselves in the real world, especially now in this new age of new media and the obsession with celebrity. I think it's a real crime.
Gaby Hoffmann
Time
Age
People
World
Crime
Young
Just Be
Living
Think
Take
Allowed
Obsession
New
New Age
Real
New Media
Celebrity
Just
Young Age
The Real World
Real World
Themselves
Should
Working
Media
Now
Start
I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.
Gary Hume
Work
Time
Own
Enough
Enough Time
Pleasure
About
My Own
More
More And More
Never
Obsession
Until
Fascinated
My laboratory and my obsession is about safety and building/engineering safety. It's not just a matter of saying we want the world to be safer; we have to create technology.
George M. Church
Saying
Technology
World
Safety
Matter
About
Obsession
Safer
Laboratory
Just
Want
Create
I was ten years old when my first 'Vogue' cover sang me its siren call and dashed me against the treacherous rocks of fashion obsession.
Hamish Bowles
Fashion
Me
Old
First
Dashed
Ten
Vogue
Ten Years
Obsession
Call
Cover
Years
Rocks
Siren
Against
Sang
Treacherous
My obsession with accumulation, which at times has taken on the whisper of a psychic illness - as anyone who has experienced the ode to the Collyer brothers that is my 'Vogue' office will concur - began in infancy.
Hamish Bowles
Psychic
Will
Brothers
Vogue
Taken
Obsession
Concur
Ode
Infancy
Began
Times
Accumulate
Office
Experienced
Anyone
Which
Whisper
Who
Illness
This obsession with leadership... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse to save the day. I think it's killing American companies.
Henry Mintzberg
Day
Leadership
Leader
White
Think
Heroic
Horse
Neutral
Idea
Obsession
American
American Companies
Who
Companies
Save
I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.
J. G. Ballard
Work
Mind
Free
Frame
Way
Say
All My Work
Paradoxical
Would
Deliberately
Rely
Obsession
Obsessions
Leaves
Subject
Up
Quite
Set
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