A Quote by Jim Carrey

I think obsessions happen because you're trying to understand something or some urge.

Jim Carrey

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Because Happen Obsessions Some Something Think Trying Understand Urge

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Jim Carrey
Canadian - Comedian
Born: January 17, 1962

I try to tell student writers to read as much as possible, not only literature but philosophy, theory, and to form obsessions. There's a big taboo in fiction creative writing workshops against using the self at all, and I think I try to encourage students to write the self, but to connect the self to something larger, which is to be this thinking, seeing, searching, eternally curious person, and that writing can come out of investigating and trying to understand confusion, and doubts, and obsessions.

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