There is space for a different kind of investigative reporting that's about immersion and obsessive attention to detail and deep listening. — Sarah Stillman Copy Share Image
“Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the obsessive phenomenon… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Facebook and pictures on the Internet have created such a different way of dating. It's not necessarily good because an obsessive quality… — Alexander Koch Copy Share Image
It's nice to collect stamps, but if it becomes obsessive, and you start stealing for your stamps, it becomes too much. — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
I swayed into him, drawn to his obsessive and insatiable raw need for me, which reflected the depth of my need for… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
I got into my usual obsessive writing frenzy, using all the material I'd worked on for so long and crafting it into… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
An obsessive attention to the news, I've realized, only serves to paint a picture of the world as a throbbing blob of… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
Singers attract fans with aspects of their own personality. People feel I'm passionate and obsessive. They know this isn't a profession for… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
Why has slamming a ball with a racquet become so obsessive a pleasure for so many of us? It seems clear to… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
On the Facebook side, I think it's a bit of an evolution, in that that company, which has clearly done amazing things,… — Jason Kilar Copy Share Image
As an actor, I don't have any politics. As an actor, I'm driven more by an authentic - I would say an… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I can get really obsessive. I like writing many drafts, and I try not to because it is very time-consuming, especially when… — Carol Windley Copy Share Image
I'm just interested in women's friendships generally. It always seems to me, and this is just my pet theory, that women are… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I am an obsessive personality. And if you are an obsessive personality, you need to be aware of it and be able… — Lapo Elkann Copy Share Image
Obsessive use of meditative disciplines or perennial study of scripture and philosophy will never bring forth this wonderful realization, this truth which… — Tilopa Copy Share Image
If I gave up writing, I'd have to find an equally obsessive way to fill my time. Yarn-bombing skyscrapers or making houses… — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
The most important aspect of writing the pieces that make up this eighth book was yielding to my obsessive side, letting my… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive.… — Jon Favreau Copy Share Image
Welcome to the psychiatric hotline: if you are obsessive compulsive press one repeatedly. If you are schizophrenic listen closely and a little… — Barbara Oakley Copy Share Image
Some of my music requires an obsessive-compulsive approach and a real embodiment of excessiveness. So I really have to live in that… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Every moment in life can be interpreted as a risk, depending on our outlook - and level of obsessive- compulsive disorder! I… — Dash Mihok Copy Share Image
I've never told anyone this before, but I'm an obsessive-compulsive. I go back to my hotel room every evening and put the… — Freida Pinto Copy Share Image
All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
I am an obsessive garage cleaner - my wife and the neighbors make fun of me. I remember that my father was… — Chris O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Spicy food and I have a close relationship—an obsessive one, in fact. If it’s spicy, I want it. I want to sweat… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Manchester United could have any goalkeeper in the world. I was a 23-year-old kid from New Jersey who, from an early age,… — Tim Howard Copy Share Image
Genuine mental health would involve a balanced interplay of both modes of experience, a way of life in which one's identification with… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example,… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
I've always been somebody who wants to have my hands in all of the baskets, and I would go through these obsessive… — Jenna Ortega Copy Share Image
[George Carlin] was obsessive about time; he was obsessive compulsive about his material and making things shorter and more perfect. He did… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I'd be in the studio three days straight to get something right, and my manager would be like,… — Labrinth Copy Share Image
It is notable how little empathy is cultivated or valued in our society. I put this down to our traditional racism and… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Both of my books, 'Love Is a Mix Tape' and 'Talking to Girls About Duran Duran,' are about how music gets tangled… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
I wrote Twilight at about the pace of a runaway semi on a steep down slope. It took me three months of… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
You create a blueprint of your best performance, and you're happiest the night you surpass that blueprint. That won't happen that often,… — Kenneth Cranham Copy Share Image
You work with people who are obsessive about shopping, obsessive about owning things and buying things, like this purchase is going to… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
I knew I was breaking about a dozen laws but I guess I had different attitudes to stuff like that since the… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
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