#obsession

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

#aimed #also #award #bangladesh #basic

In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions. ↗

— Andres Serrano

#explore #i #my own #obsessions #own

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#good #interested #men #obsession #one thing

I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#any #artist #been #called #details

The painter's obsession with his subject is all that he needs to drive him to work. ↗

— Lucian Freud

#him #his #needs #obsession #painter

It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies. ↗

— Mike Leigh

#comes #creeps #million #movies #obsession

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#answer #back #because #coming #get

When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#become #books #came #change #come

What bothers me is our culture's obsession with nudity. It shouldn't be a big deal, but it is. I think this overemphasis with nudity makes actors nervous. There's the worry about seeing one's body dissected, misrepresented, played and replayed on the Internet. ↗

— Rachel McAdams

#big #big deal #body #bothers #culture

The frenzy of the little-girl culture is something very unique, and I can only say that because I was one. The obsession - I can't really explain it. Everything is heightened to the maximum. ↗

— Nikki Reed

#culture #everything #explain #frenzy #heightened