Some media used to talk about video games only to say how violent or addictive they could be. With ‘Heavy Rain,’ they talked about the story of the game and the emotions they felt while playing.
Childhood trauma is the rocket fuel for addictive pathology, and this fundamental truth is laid bare in ‘Patrick Melrose.’
If some people don’t like funk music then it’s just the wrong time for them. They will get it. It’s addictive.
Just as it can be addictive to be in a real world bookstore or library, it’s the same on the Web.
People don’t know this, but I’m going through a lot every time I walk on stage, which is part of doing theater. That’s why it’s so addictive, I must say.
The theater is magical and addictive.
Like sugar and, oh – let’s say the most tabloidy and gossipy reality television programs – credit is, for millions, genuinely addictive.
I need to protect myself from my own addictive impulse.
We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions.
When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
I’ve always had an addictive nature.
There’s nothing more addictive or incredible in life than reinventing yourself and allow yourself to be different every day.
Debt can be the most addictive thing in the universe, and it can kill you. You get used to living high off the hog. It was intoxicating.
Americans are gathering the courage to just say no. We are saying no to addictive consumer lifestyles. We are saying no to wars and corporate takeover and the IMF loans that gobble up people and their resources.
Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the source of all inspiration. Which is to say, if all else fails: take a bike ride.
When you share work, and you have the opportunity of seeing people you like doing what they do best, and you also interchange socially with them, it’s very addictive.
Performing on stage is addictive. The adrenaline rush is exhilarating. When I stop touring for a couple weeks, I get antsy.
My very addictive personality and all sorts of strongholds are a thing of the past for me. Yet at the root of every single one of those issues was insecurity, something I had battled since childhood.
Cutting sugar made the most difference to my body. It’s the devil. It’s addictive, and it’s in so many things you wouldn’t even think of. Sugar is put in sauces, breads, and yoghurts. It’s not always obvious, but so many things are packed in sugar.
I think there are people that have very addictive personalities.
As a writer, I try to appeal to the ‘elusive boy audience’ the same way I try to appeal to everyone: I do the very best I can to create interesting characters, addictive plots, tons of conflict, believable settings, unexpected plot twists, intriguing beginnings, and satisfying endings.
When you have an addictive personality, you fixate upon things easily. Routines and behaviors, and ritual, becomes very important.
I love watching old movies, and some of the holiday-themed ones are really great. I also have a bizarre thing that I’ll do: I’ll turn on a foreign-language TV station, usually Spanish, and watch a whole show, riveted, even though I have no idea what anyone is saying. I don’t know why I find that so addictive, but I do!
The idea that growth will remedy our debts is so addictive for politicians, but the citizens end up paying the price.
Fly-fishing is really addictive.
I’m an addictive person. If I open a bag of sweets, I won’t just eat one or two, I’ll eat the lot. If I go and play on my computer, it won’t be just for an hour, it’ll be for five hours.
When you’re in the military, you teeter on the edge of that line of life and death. The reason you feel so alive when you come through is because you know you’ve cheated death – and that and the adrenaline rush is addictive, no question.
I have a very addictive personality, so I’m even careful about wanting more of anything than I need – even chocolate.
The tobacco companies knew quite early on the addictive nature of their product.
Nobody was willing to lend their bike or teach me to ride. Bike riding is very addictive and nobody wants to part with their bike for someone else.
I have an addictive personality, so when I like something, I really want it all.
The constellation of opinion called the blogosphere consists, like the stars themselves, partly of gases. This is what makes blogs addictive – that is, both pleasurable and destructive: They’re so easy to consume and so endlessly available.
I’ve felt very comfortable on stage and love making people laugh. It’s that kind of addictive thing where you get a laugh and you just want more.
The addictive pleasure of abandoning yourself to a book, of losing consciousness of your worries, your body, and your surroundings, to become a ghost haunting other worlds has influenced me in many ways.
I think winning becomes addictive.
‘Twilight’ is a breathlessly addictive read with a love story that sucks people in.
Technology is a compulsive and addictive way to live. Verbal communication cannot be lost because of a lack of skill. The ability to listen and learn is key to mastering the art of communication. If you don’t use your verbal skills and networking, it will disappear rapidly. Use technology wisely.
The attraction of power is heady, addictive. And as we know from real life, it can be a disease. A horrific disease.
I’m devious, cruel, cunning and addictive.
Apart from the highs and lows of when your film releases, there’s a strange, addictive quality that making a film has because of all that drama. There’s so much that goes on, and we miss it when it’s over.
I have an addictive personality. I was addicted to computer games… and then all that obsessive nature just piled into music.
I think smartphones are one of humanity’s most remarkable creations: computers are amazing enough, but a supercomputer you can carry in your pocket and communicate instantly with anyone, anywhere… it’s no wonder they’re troublingly addictive.
Hip Hop is very addictive.
Once you start getting into giving back, it gets addictive.
All kinds of gambling, from bingo to baccarat, are benign entertainment for most people, dangerously addictive to a few, and capable of breeding unwanted side effects for society.
Work is like a drug. I’m jonesing for more. It’s gotten more addictive than I had realized. I get anxious when I have nothing to do now.
Now that I finally have the time for it, this web surfing stuff turns out to be as interesting and fun and addictive as you’ve all been telling me. Zipping from link to link, chasing an idea across the noosphere, sucking up information like a killer whale – way cool.
‘Spectator Books’ is presented by the genial Sam Leith. Leith has a little catch in his delivery that quickly becomes addictive. It’s things like this that give podcasts their charm.
I think all actors have addictive personalities.
I loved the DOS games, Super Nintendo. And I have a very addictive personality, so I recognize now that I just can’t engage in that kind of stuff because I’ll never stop. So I no longer play any games.
That grit of fighting is addictive, I’m scared of it. It’s a very weird thing.
Falling in love as we know it is an addictive experience.
I found popularity through self-destruction, and that can be quite addictive.
Collections collect collectors. It doesn’t work the other way around. A certain object misses its own kind and communicates that to some person who surrounds it with rhyming items; these become at first a quorum, then a selective, addictive madness.
I can’t play video games because I have that addictive personality. If I started playing video games I wouldn’t stop.
The fulfillment I get from a good day of writing is addictive and will always bring me back the next day.
I always have to come back to shows to take out the improvements actors have put in. Laughs are addictive, and sometimes they’re good laughs, and sometimes they’re bad laughs.
There’s so much fear involved in trying to do something you don’t know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.
Highlight just hasn’t proven to be very addictive to either me or my friends. We talk about it often. I keep running it.
I have an addictive personality so anything I do I want to go 110, so even with food I love it. I mean I’m Mexican-Italian so anything around my family is always food-oriented somehow.
Talking about smart thinking, The British-made ‘Brain Training Podcast’ is a brief daily workout for the mind that could easily get addictive.
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