At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture.
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Related I just saw 'Tiny Furniture' and became so obsessed with it that Judd Apatow jokes that I'... JENNIFER KONNER I always wanted so much glamour in my life, so I have always been obsessed with class, and from dati... NATASHA LEGGERO My idol growing up was Charlie Chaplin. I was obsessed with him. I mean, while other kids were watch... JOSH GAD I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation. DAVID BLAINE I lived in South America when I was growing up. I spent hours sketching. I was good at drawing, and ... NINA GARCIA When I was a kid, going to Universal Studios, which was all I wanted to do, all the time, there was ... ALEX KURTZMAN My dad is into movies, and they let me watch movies. I was obsessed with Monty Python when I was in ... CHARLIE TAHAN I was obsessed with work in my youth. It's why I didn't get married until I was 38 and the r... PAM FERRIS I know that everybody is so obsessed with this idea of fame, and they think that I'm obsessed. I... AUBREY O'DAY Nastia Liukin, I was obsessed with her. And I say was, but really am obsessed with her. She's ju... KACY CATANZARO For my first apartment, when I was first married, I went to the lumberyard and bought stuff and made... MICHAEL GRAVES When I was writing 'Withnail,' I was so busted flat that I had one lightbulb that I would ca... BRUCE ROBINSON I was obsessed with girls when I was 13 years old; I wasn't really into books. JAMIE CAMPBELL BOWER I'm obsessed with books. DAVID SYLVIAN At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was... IGGY POP When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that... LANCE BURTON As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but ... TAYLOR WILSON Well, I was obsessed with Judy Garland growing up. Like, obsessed. AUBREY PLAZA I'm tired as hell. Why? I sacrifice my health for my future. I sacrifice my present being for my fut... DEDRICK D. L. PITTER The town I came from really had one industry, and that was furniture. ERIC CHURCH I am obsessed with my hairstyles. RAVEN-SYMONE From a young age I was obsessed with the mysterious, the esoteric, the paranormal. DRUMMOND MONEY-COUTTS Eventually, the more I listened and became obsessed with singers, I feel like the more I realized th... CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT I was obsessed with Carol Burnett and then Tracey Ullman. Like, obsessed with their shows. LENNON PARHAM With my introduction to Miss Swanson and macrobiotics, I had become obsessed. DIRK BENEDICT I'm obsessed with my children. TRAVIS BARKER I grew up in the countryside, and I was obsessed with horses and wildlife. BELLA FREUD Because I'm a walker, natural history is my subject; I've always been obsessed with landscap... JIM CRACE For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the ti... BJORK I was a real tomboy for most of my life. Then I went through a really girlie period, then through a ... EVAN RACHEL WOOD I remember 'Rain Man' with Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman with all the Lamborghinis being lif... RICKY WHITTLE There definitely was a time when I was pretty obsessed with my weight, but I'm better off not st... HILARY DUFF I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own. LES DAWSON Having bought furniture for my own house, and bought furniture for our house in Washington, a furnit... ELIZABETH EDWARDS As a kid, I remember wondering why we lived in an apartment, not in a brownstone, and why we drove a... LEAH REMINI I was obsessed with Val McDermid's Tony Hill and Carol Jordan books, delightfully twisted stuff. CHELSEA CAIN I was born in 1971, and Tom Baker was sort of my obsession as a kid and that's why we got him to... DAVID WALLIAMS Let's see, what was my favorite of 'Golden Girls'. Anything Stan was involved with, I wa... JESSICA ST. CLAIR I grew up in a food-obsessed Italian family, so food was always front and center in my life. I was a... NADIA GIOSIA I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts wi... FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT When I was a child, I was always nicking my mum's jewellery to wear, and I loved to drape a mass... ALICE TEMPERLEY I am so obsessed with the cars that sometimes I feel like my heart is not a muscle, it's an engine. AMIT KALANTRI Be a little less obsessed with how I live my life and a little more obsessed with how you live your ... DAN PEARCE As a kid, I always was obsessed with Houdini. DAVID BLAINE No furniture is so charming as books. SYDNEY SMITH No furniture is so charming as books SYDNEY SMITH I'm on the path to being someone I'm equally terrified by and obsessed with. My true self. TROYE SIVAN I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care. ERNEST CLINE I was obsessed with being rich and famous. PAUL LYNDE Growing up, I was obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio. CLAIRE FOY I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the fir... NATE BERKUS My problem is desserts. I am obsessed with desserts. SOFIA VERGARA Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his id... MARTIN SCORSESE It's so funny, because when I was growing up in a small town in New Hampshire, I was obsessed wi... ELIZA COUPE I was obsessed with 'The Wizard of Oz.' SELENA GOMEZ My friends in college, several of whom are still my closest companions, would tell you that I was al... MAHERSHALA ALI I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano. GARY OLDMAN It was crazy. I spent more than one night in my car so that I would be the first in the home on sign... DAVE ARNOLD The most influential thing was the two Chris Rock specials that came out when I was in high school. ... AZIZ ANSARI I'm not obsessed with books, I'm not obsessed with school and homework, and I'm not obsessed with no... EMMA WATSON When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'... RACHEL COHN I didn't grow up in public life. I lived with my mother in Boston, not in Washington, DC, so I w... ALEXANDRA KERRY When I decided to go to L.A. I said I was going to quit modelling and just go and see how I do. In t... ESTELLA WARREN My first-ever concert was the Barney concert when I was, like, six. My mum took me because I was obs... GIGI HADID I was never really obsessed with the whole guy thing to begin with. BEVERLEY MITCHELL I was never really obsessed with the whole guy thing to begin with. BEVERLY MITCHELL I had a 'Cats' phase, where I did lots of overturned furniture and trash cans. I asked for a... BEN PLATT I am obsessed with ice cubes. Obsessed. DREW BARRYMORE I always wanted to become president! When I was a kid, I was obsessed with politics. CAMERON RUSSELL I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat ... H.P. LOVECRAFT I liked to scrapbook and collage a whole lot in high school. I'm always ripping things out of ma... JENNA USHKOWITZ I love to decorate a room - from the furniture to the objects to the books. AERIN LAUDER I was obsessed with learning about social behaviors. I remember explaining to my mom that kids on my... HALSEY I had no interest or intention of ever writing music. I was a professional violinist in my 20s. I wa... DAVID NEWMAN I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday pa... BRITTANY SNOW I was obsessed with him. I wouldn't leave his side for a second. DREW BARRYMORE I was always incredibly obsessed with germs and cleaning and taking shower after shower after shower... HOWIE MANDEL I knew in my head that I had to leave the period with a point. That was critical. KORY BISSETT It's a wonderful film about a writer who is obsessed with his love for the Boston Red Sox, ... He ob... TOM ALDREDGE I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, ... DALLAS ROBERTS I was obsessed with this idea that these things that you collect, they just say so much about who yo... BEN SILBERMANN When I was growing up, I was obsessed with 'Cagney and Lacey.' TAMSIN GREIG I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in. BJORK I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in. BJöRK I grew up with a fashion-obsessed mother and an older sister, so there was a lot of fashion in my ho... NINA GARCIA I was always obsessed with other performers doing their thing, and Britney 'Live in Las Vegas... BETTY WHO I have always loved fashion and clothes. I mean, I was Grace Kelly for Halloween in fifth grade, whi... AHNA O'REILLY The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents ... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON I was weirdly obsessed with music until I was 11, and then I turned into a nerd. SIA I was obsessed with Chubby Checker and old dances, like the twist. LAURIEANN GIBSON I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthda... BRITTANY SNOW Why are we so obsessed with monogamous fidelity? RICHARD DAWKINS As a young boy, I was obsessed with endangered species and the extinct species that men killed off. ... LEONARDO DICAPRIO I'm obsessed by the idea of making my mark on history. And Arsenal is my paradise. THIERRY HENRY I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture an... H. P. LOVECRAFT I'm not going to deny it. I'm a neat person, there's no question. But I don't become obsessed with i... COURTENEY COX I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books. KEVIN BACON I loved the Black Eyed Peas. I was obsessed with them, and they were my favorite group ever, and Amy... ALESSIA CARA A lot of the time I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested ... BJORK Jackie's dream was France, but mine was really art and Italy, as that was all I cared about thro... LEE RADZIWILL
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LEWIS CARROLL Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop... LEWIS CARROLL Why is a raven like a writing desk? LEWIS CARROLL Use a condom. The world doesn't need another you. CARROLL BRYANT When they first started doing these, ... a lot of women would kiss the envelopes with lipstick just ... ANDREW CARROLL This is the historical record. These are the eyewitnesses to these events, so no one can ever say th... ANDREW CARROLL You get a sense that the letter-writer is in a groove, pouring out these words that give you insight... ANDREW CARROLL I think the writing for this book is extraordinary. And that's why we call it 'Above and Beyond,' be... ANDREW CARROLL It draws us into their story. There is that sense of mystery, of what was that person thinking and w... ANDREW CARROLL No toy stores here. This flag represents America and makes me proud each time I see it. ANDREW CARROLL The thing about this festival that I love is that it brings people from all walks of life together f... ANDREW CARROLL There's youth in our locker room, but a lot of us aren't that young. We're 19, 20 or 21. We have goo... ANDREW CARROLL