A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
Emile M. Cioran
All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.
Catherine Deneuve
An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine.
Andres Serrano
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
If you don't have obsessions, don't write. my characters are obsessed.
Marguerite Young
In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.
Andres Serrano
It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
Robert Bly
Love is an obsession. It has that quality to it. But there are healthy obsessions, and mine is one of them.
Pamela Stephenson
Obsessions turn people off.
Grover Norquist
The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.
Mary Ellen Mark
The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.
John Updike
When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.
Amartya Sen
Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.
Mario Vargas Llosa
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