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People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.

Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping.

My hope is that people will be repulsed by the character's complete lack of ethics and obsession with consumerism - that's what I was saying about the difference between the character's message and the film's message.

My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end.

Dancing is my obsession. My life.

I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.

I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about.

Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

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

In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.

Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.

I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny.