Mary Karr Quotes

I've always had an addictive nature.

I am an addictive personality.

My problem is I'm an addictive personality. I can't have one coffee. I can't eat one piece of chocolate.

Everybody's got their poison, and mine is sugar.

I've got an addictive personality.

I come from a position where it seems like I have an addictive quality to everything in my life.

Well, addiction does start with a choice.

My problem is I'm an addictive personality. I can't have one coffee. I can't eat one piece of chocolate. I can't have a little bit of drugs.

Addictive behavior is kind of the inverse of procrastination: procrastination is about not being able to do what you want to do, addiction about not being able to not do what you don't want to do (drink, use drugs, etc.)

I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.

Men even contract the dirty, filthy habit of chewing tobacco, and when the habit gets a good hold upon them they are never satisfied except when they have a wad of the stuff in their mouth. So with drinking. It is largely a habit.

It's an addiction... and addiction is something I should know something about.

I think there are people that have very addictive personalities.

So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!

I like smoking! I mean, God, I quit everything else, can't I smoke?

I don't think I was really addicted. I used it as a party tool.

I quit smoking the day I found out I was pregnant, which was nine years ago. But I'll still smoke in a movie. I have other vices, you know, like potato chips and chardonnay - but not together.

I have a severe addiction to 'Angry Birds.' I always tell myself, 'One more game...' But then there's always another and another and another.

I need to protect myself from my own addictive impulse.

I have an addictive personality, so when I like something, I really want it all.

I'm such an addictive personality that I can say yes or no.

It's a very bad habit, but one I find hard to break.

I do believe that I'm an addict on one level or another at all times.

I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.

I have a very addictive personality, so I'm even careful about wanting more of anything than I need - even chocolate.