I’ve always been interested in obsessive, insane people.
I used to be something of an obsessive when it came to research. When I first began writing the Thorne novels, I would drive to a set of traffic lights in the early hours of the morning to make sure you could turn left. I thought it was important to get even the most trivial details right.
The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your toenails fall off and you peel them away and then you’re asked to dance again and keep smiling. I wanted to become a professional ballet dancer.
I’m an obsessive musical theatre person, so some of the most formative albums for me were, you know, the ‘Phantom Of The Opera’ soundtrack or ‘Into The Woods.’
Twitter freaks me out. You have followers? It feels so obsessive and proprietary.
My own position is so far on the obsessive side of preparation and professionalism that I fear my point of view is not going to be shared by anyone.
There’s something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There’s something that invites all this obsessive behavior.
I become quite obsessive when I get into something.
I was obsessive and made my parents take me to the hairdressers way more often than I needed to.
I’m an obsessive person. I like intensity.
I’ve got lots and lots planned out, and other ideas knocking around in my head, too. I’m kind of an obsessive pre-planner, so I have a lot of material.
I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I’m not obsessive over it.
I can be a little obsessive about avoiding colds and flu. Thera Zinc Echinacea lozenges are awesome, and I almost always have some with me.
When I was younger, I’d be in the studio three days straight to get something right, and my manager would be like, ‘Go home!’ Even now, I still sleep in the studio sometimes, but I can’t do it quite as often. I’ve got gigs; I can’t have my hobo beard! But if you love what you’re doing, you can’t stop. It’s obsessive.
My very first movie, ‘Mary Poppins,’ which I talk about, it just turned me into an obsessive, creative creature who had to sort of reply to the experience by drawing things, making things. It was like it forced – it made me into this obsessive, creative creature… I don’t know any other way of putting it.
I can’t live without Radio 4. It’s worth the entire licence fee. I’m an obsessive listener; I get up, and Radio 4 goes on, but it goes off when ‘Thought for the Day’ starts, as that’s a step too far.
Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.
I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I’m afraid of.
India has a long history with devotional, even obsessive love, be it for a personal god or for your lover.
The obsessive focus on a college degree has served neither taxpayers nor students well. Only 35 percent of students starting a four-year degree program will graduate within four years, and less than 60 percent will graduate within six years. Students who haven’t graduated within six years probably never will.
I can get really obsessive. I like writing many drafts, and I try not to because it is very time-consuming, especially when you’re working on a novel. But I do like to take a story and reorder it, put things in different places. This allows me to see things in a new and sometimes surprising way.
I’m turning into one of those people who writes to the actors on ‘Coronation Street’ – a really obsessive fan.
I gave my life to Christ, and I thought that would be it for me, and He was, like, ‘No, you’re not finished with acting; acting is not finished with you. This is your talent. Go back into it, but you’re going back into it with a heart that’s not obsessive over it.’
I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I’m an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that they tapped into a fundamental distinction in language processing, indeed in cognitive processing, between memory lookup and rule-driven computation.
I play piano, and I was really, really obsessive about playing piano in high school. I don’t know if that’s nerdy, but I definitely locked myself in the room and was playing jazz. I was 14. I guess that’s kind of cool, actually.
I have this almost obsessive desire to whomever is close to me: I want to have a very intense, close, intimate relationship with them.
I have been known to play a few rounds in my time. I’m not obsessive; I don’t play in the dark, but even that’s not out of the question because Stevie Wonder is also a golfer.
I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well.
The greatest thing for me is that my dad is a football hooligan. He’s an obsessive football fan. And I think he wanted me to be a footballer and I wasn’t. Instead, I probably disappointed him by going into the arts.
When I’m making a film, I’m obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That’s all I’m eating, breathing, living at that moment.
I think so much about everything. I’m obsessive.
I was a mad obsessive cricket player as a student. Then during one local match I nearly lost my eye.
I’m an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.
You can become obsessive, but you enjoy it – that’s what you like doing. It is just how I am. I don’t try my hardest to be like this.
I’m very much a home bird. I sometimes think I should have been a domestic. I like sweeping up, getting everything tidy. I’m obsessive compulsive. I don’t mind admitting it.
I’m kind of an obsessive person, and touring is repetitive in the best way.
Some of our favorite films are obviously not written by the person who directed it. And yet a ‘Taxi Driver,’ or some Nicholas Ray movie, like ‘In a Lonely Place,’ seems so personal or obsessive or whatever.
I think I have minor obsessive compulsive disorder. Everything has to be tidy and just right.
For me, collages manage to – it satisfies all of my madness, like I’m able to make these obsessive things, but then I’m also able to make these very strong statements. I don’t know what they mean to other people, but in my mind, they have a very strong particular resonance; there’s sort of a power.
I like to think of myself as focused in work, but it probably comes across as obsessive.
I become kind of obsessive about research.
My mom has a couple great tricks, but my father is consistently a good cook. He’s extremely avid about health and fitness and a bit obsessive. He always talks about garden-fresh food.
It’s always exciting to play characters who are obsessive because all their energy is so focused on that one thing and they’re eccentric because of it.
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 years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.
I can be a bit extreme. I’ll spend too much time running round the park, doing yoga and drinking green tea. I can get a bit obsessive. I have to rein it in sometimes.
People get obsessive and nuts. It’s scary.
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