I'm obsessive about the kind of melodrama of getting through the days and trying to make them good and funny and a… — Tom Baker Copy Share Image
The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
In the end, oh I know, never, in my haggard passion, have I ever been such a cadaver as now as I… — Pier Paolo Pasolini Copy Share Image
I had enormous self-image problems and very low self-esteem, which I hid behind obsessive writing and performing. It's exactly what I do… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
My role relationship to the event will continue to mutate. My relationship to my mother will continue to change as I revise… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I always loved horror as a kid. On the one hand, I really love monsters, because in a way I feel like… — Larry Fessenden Copy Share Image
I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable… — John Dalton Copy Share Image
Love" and all the obsessive behaviors associated with it, was an absurd emotion. — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
The intellectual ... may live for ideas, as I have said, but something must prevent him from living for one idea, from… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“When life hasn’t got a swing anymore, people may give in to obsessive oniomaniac compulsions, in as much as they are going… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
If you would like to write better than everybody else, you have to want to write better than everybody else. You must… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery.… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
These are the folk who may pass into the kingdom of heaven: the grief-stricken, lovers, scholars of a certain obsessive disposition. Brute… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are… — Michael Gambon Copy Share Image
A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization the state of affairs, arising out of a struggle against poverty, has overshot its… — Ivan Chtcheglov Copy Share Image
Writing a book is about me doing the work to get from the obsessive particular to something that reaches out of that… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The writing is therapeutic for me, it's an introverted process, I'm really inside my head. It's a really obsessive process. The live… — Fernando Torres Copy Share Image
My work in general involves getting over my fears that are deeply embedded since childhood: Fear of darkness, fear of dangerous activities… — Miru Kim Copy Share Image
