- Nov 07, 2020
Fixated Quotes
On obsession, focus, and letting go.
This collection gathers quotes about fixation, including the reminder not to be fixated on the ups and downs of weekly ratings. See also our Change quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know I have sex appeal, but I've never felt like an actual sex symbol. Fans sometimes think I am. The majority of them are sweet about it, but occasionally somebody weird becomes totally fixated upon me.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel that to a great extent, the industry is fixated with fair skin, and that needs to change.
- Dress
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- Nov 07, 2020
When 'Brain on Fire' premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2016, I fixated on inconsequential things like what dress I would wear and how much weight I wanted to lose. I lost my perspective.
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020
The conquistadors and their followers were very rough people, and they were fixated on gold and silver. They were oblivious to the astonishing achievements of the Inca civilisation.
- Revenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way I work is I'll basically become kind of fixated on a very stripped-down genre, like revenge or something like that, and just start layering on top of that and entering in thoughts and ideas, and then the story just kind of builds up that way.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
My friends in college, several of whom are still my closest companions, would tell you that I was almost obsessed with becoming - fixated on creating - the future that I envisioned for myself: one of expanding to know my fullest self, which I have in no way achieved.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
From a neighbour, I got a one-day-old duckling and found, to my intense joy, that it transferred its following response to my person. At the same time, my interest became irreversibly fixated on water fowl, and I became an expert on their behaviour even as a child.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're doing a network show in the States, you're just a slave to the ratings. There's so much money invested that there's this pervasive atmosphere of fear and anxiety. Every morning after an episode of your show airs, everyone is fixated on the numbers to try and determine how the show did.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to leave home, and I didn't know where I was going or what I was going to do or what would happen. That's youth, though. Being fixated on things. I was fixated on being a writer.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.
- Discarded
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,' protagonist Winston Smith works at a propaganda department for the state called the 'Ministry of Truth,' where inconvenient news can be discarded down a 'memory hole.' Orwell was fixated on the idea that under certain governments, the past can be altered or documents rewritten.
- Kind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm kind of fixated with old Hollywood, like Marilyn Monroe.
- Good Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020