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Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions.
Bruce Springsteen
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A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.


Emile M. Cioran
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I keep my phone on the floor in my bedroom, and I turn the sound off when I sleep, but I never really turn my phone off.
Meryl Davis
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Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.


Ian Fleming
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When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.


Nelson Mandela
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The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.
Mary Ellen Mark
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It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.


Marianne Williamson
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Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what's going on, the movie should work.


Willem Dafoe
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If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.


Marguerite Young
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All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.


Catherine Deneuve
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We use work to numb out. We can't turn off our machines because we're afraid we're going to miss something.
Brene Brown
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Take a moment every day to find peace. Pull over to the side of the road, turn off the radio, and find peace.
Richard Simmons
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Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.
Gary Shteyngart
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I learned how to turn it on and turn it off. You learn that in theater, too, but for film work, I learned from doing 'Henry,' I learned how to leave work at work and go home. There's always spillover. Actors speak of this.
Michael Rooker
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I'm gradually working through my obsessions, and maybe, when they're all free and clear, I'll write a comedy. But I'm not there yet.
Alice Sebold
My interests and obsessions have always been so wide-ranging that I keep popping my head out of different boxes as much as possible.
Tim Curry
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I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.
Scarlett Thomas
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I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football.
Alan Davies
I'm not a mean comic, I don't want to turn anybody off - I just want to give a point of view or my take on things that everyone can laugh at.
Gary Owens
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When some people get angry, they turn into victims, but when I get angry, I turn to action.


Art Alexakis
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