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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
I never was obsessive about anything I watched when I was a kid, except maybe 'The A-Team' and 'Airwolf'... And I loved 'Knight Rider' and then later 'Baywatch.'
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.
I am a bit obsessive about tidiness. I need to make my bed in the morning and leave it perfectly made up.
These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.
I have an obsessive character. I manicure my nails at three in the morning because nobody else can do it the right way. Maybe that's the secret to my success.
I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.
Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
I would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive celebrity infatuation that says, 'Let's talk about something that matters'.
I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.
I was obsessed with Tupac - like eat, sleep, breathe Tupac. During this obsessive love affair, I dressed the part.
I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs.
Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching.
Anything that I love, I love to the extreme. I'm obsessive. If it's 'Star Wars,' if it's 'Transformers,' if it's the Flyers, I geek out.
There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the crazed, destructive strength of an obsessive lover.
I write plays and poetry at the same time, and I'm always refining, but I'm not obsessive about it. It's what I like to do, what I've always wanted to do.
While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.
I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.
That's what I try to do as a writer and as the editor of HuffPost: cover important stories in an obsessive way that enables them to break through the din of our multimedia universe.
Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.
Facebook and pictures on the Internet have created such a different way of dating. It's not necessarily good because an obsessive quality can develop in people.
I got into my usual obsessive writing frenzy, using all the material I'd worked on for so long and crafting it into a little novel [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries].
A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status
These people are obsessive. They go overboard interpreting verbal and behavioral cues that take them way beyond reality.
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.
I studied computer science and graphic design, yeah, so music was self-taught and a backburner thing, an obsessive hobby.
Psychopaths don't have that charming skill set. They definitely manipulate, but they do it through focused, unskilled means. They're more obsessive.
I don't want to be a movie star like Angelina Jolie. Nothing about being a celebrity is desirable. I'm an actor. It's bizarre to me that everybody's so obsessive.
I like to say I sit alone in my room, and I fight the language. I am wildly obsessive. I can't let something go if I think it's wrong.
I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.
When you're obsessive, like me, searching for something unattainable can become unhealthy ... it's like falling through the air and grabbing at the clouds.
No one, evidently, except me has found "No Alarms" poem ironical that an obsessive theme in my writing was - and has continued to be - not being able to write.
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.'
It is really important to have an obsessive need to construct something, to understand something from your own experience.
I believe that the obsessive worship of movie, TV and sports figures is less likely to produce spiritual gain than praying to Thor.
I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.
When you're obsessive, like me, searching for something unattainable can become unhealthy... it's like falling through the air and grabbing at the clouds.
I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.
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 have this almost obsessive desire to whomever is close to me: I want to have a very intense, close, intimate relationship with them.
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.
It's always so difficult when you've left your kids to go to work every day - you want people to like it. I just agonise over it, but I'm obsessive because I love what I do.
One of the things my success as an author has forced me to face is how dysfunctional... Maybe that's a strong word, but how obsessive I am.
Part of me wishes some of the more obsessive fans would spend a fraction of the time they spend studying the band.
I have a little obsessive-compulsive personality. You can tell because I played online games for eight hours a day.
All of us task-oriented obsessive compulsives must learn to slow down and let people into our lives.
Shoe design is like architecture - with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness.
Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts.
The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes.
I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become an obsessive saver.
Queen is my all-time favorite band in history. I was an obsessive growing up after I discovered them at 10 at summer camp.
My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive.
Yes I am definitely an 'Orange is the New Black' fan... Not an obsessive, but a fan none the less.
I never was obsessive about anything I watched when I was a kid, except maybe 'The A-Team' and 'Airwolf' And I loved 'Knight Rider' and then later 'Baywatch.'
When I'm working, I'm insufferable because I get stuck with myself, and suddenly I become obsessive, thinking about how to make something better.
As a child, I was an obsessive reader, as was everybody in my family all winter long with my father. I think I was only 8 when I read Edward Gibbon's 'The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.'
As I began to grow, my family thought my obsessive interest in girly things was just a normal developmental phase.
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.
If I gave up writing, I'd have to find an equally obsessive way to fill my time. Yarn-bombing skyscrapers or making houses out of empty soda bottles.
If I had to do a record review, I'd say it's got a cannibal, consumption, obsessive, violent-sex, romance angle, but with an upbeat swing to it.
Some people are probably saner. They're good performers, and they go about their day. I just get obsessive about it.
