Escape Quotes
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We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence of that.
Edgar Ramirez
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That morning I realized I would probably spend the rest of my professional life trying to unravel the mysteries of trauma. How do horrific experiences cause people to become hopelessly stuck in the past? What happens in people’s minds and brains that keeps them frozen, trapped in a place they desperately wish to escape?
Bessel van der Kolk
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I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, it's a great escape and I really enjoy it.
Bailey Chase
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The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
Cesare Pavese
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I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
Adam Baldwin
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Squid don't eat jellyfish, but they eat the things that eat the jellyfish. Jellyfishes put on a lightshow to attract a larger predator. It's caught in the clutches of something like a fish and has no hope for escape unless its lightshow attracts something bigger that will attack their attacker.
Edith Widder
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My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.
Jack Henry Abbott
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'Con Air' was kind of a turning point for me, in my mind. I never shot anybody in that movie – I never did anything bad – because there were so many bad guys in that movie. I said, 'The hell with this, I'm just gonna be a lovable guy.' I'm like Steve McQueen in 'The Great Escape.'
M. C. Gainey
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Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.
Alyssa Milano
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Capital goes to where it can escape taxation and be used to pay employees in sacks of rice.
Walter Wriston
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Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.
Garth Risk Hallberg
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The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.
Karen Horney
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Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.
Seth Godin
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You can't escape from what you are.
Vincent Cassel
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I write to escape; to escape poverty.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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We were very fortunate to escape with a win over such a good team and a well-coached team.
Jay Harrington
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I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?
J. R. R. Tolkien
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All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
A. C. Benson
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I kept getting up earlier and earlier, hoping to escape before Ione could catch me. That was how I learned that you can’t get up earlier than a farmer’s wife.
Esther M. Friesner
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I do know that I've read somewhere that it's been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don't know why that is. You'd think it'd be the opposite. You'd think people would want to escape from it.
Aaron Stanford
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My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.
Carl Hiaasen
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Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
Walter Scott
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Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.
Gary Gygax