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It's a nice challenge to escape your reality. I think that's why actors do what we do. We like to play other people. It's therapeutic.
Adventurous reading allows one to escape a little from the provincialities of one's home culture and the blinders of one's narrow self.
Supergirl is this unattainable, idealistic optimist of an alien, and all of us can escape into her world, and she always saves the day.
I grew up on romantic comedies and love watching those films. They were, like, a real joy and a source of great pleasure and an escape.
As a young boy in Libya, it was hard to escape the conclusion that the women were the most feeling and most functional part of society.
For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
I always see gardening as escape, as peace really. If you are angry or troubled, nothing provides the same solace as nurturing the soil.
When I did 'The Great Escape,' I kept thinking, 'If they were making a movie of my life, that's what they'd call it - the great escape.'
I'm obviously aware that most people don't agree with me, that people like to escape into a coherent world that is apart from their own.
I can't escape crooning the 'Mitwa... Kahe Dhadkan Tujhse Kya' number wherever I perform. Basically, I am a classically rooted musician.
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'
Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters.
Everyone wants to escape, everyone's drawn to escapism to leave their lives for an hour or two, and we're all so curious as human beings.
Governments can't escape from taking tough steps. One can't be populist about it. You can't flirt with such serious issues like security.
Road trips to me are just such an escape. You listen to your music, and you roll the windows down. You're usually going to somewhere fun.
My album is very uplifting and positive and fun. That was my mission - to get people up on their feet and escape the seriousness of life.
Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.
While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps.
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.
Spending time with the horses was also a good place to escape to if you were having a bad day, so it was good from a mental point of view.
I did not go into comedy to escape anything. I went into comedy because I had parents who thought it was a reputable way to earn a living.
I think a lot of kids I've met in L.A. trying to act want to escape working long days and think acting is all photoshoots and red carpets.
I was raised in a really terrific, close family, and I've never needed to escape anything or to really let myself go by dancing on tables.
You cannot escape from the biological law of cause and effect - food choices are the most significant cause of disease and premature death.
In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.
For children of my generation, anime was an escape from Japan's loser complex following World War II. Anime wasn't foreign. It was our own.
There are millions of people living Thoreau's life of quiet desperation, and they do not have the language to escape from that desperation.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.
Death is the one predator we can't escape. But vampires have found the loophole so many of us crave. I think that's the allure of vampirism.
The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
I listened to the students on campus in Plymouth, worried about their steadily deepening debts and how on earth they would ever escape them.
Reading takes me to a different place than my everyday life. I usually get fully involved in what I'm reading about, so it's a great escape.
For me, St. Petersburg is the city that I can never escape because it has this special energy, even a dark energy. It keeps pulling me back.
Ofglen is a little different than the other Handmaids because she has a really rebellious spirit and she has the hope that she could escape.
Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.
I arrived at school pensive, introverted, and not very sporty, so magic became a place of mystery and intrigue, an escape for my boyish mind.
Movies have always been spaces of refuge for me. For a few harmonious hours, I could escape my reality of being a girl living on the margins.
'Fortitude' is like the world in microcosm. It's like watching America or Russia, only you're isolated. Once you're inside, you can't escape.
As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they're an escape.
I could easily escape to a hotel for a weekend and do absolutely nothing.
I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character.
I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
I never saw fairy tales as an escape or a cop-out... On the contrary, speaking for myself, it is the way to understand reality.
Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.
Portland is where all the fringe groups went to escape. Where the outliers brought that DIY, punk rock attitude and made the city their own.
I can't seem to escape comedy. Whenever I sit down and try to write something serious, it just doesn't work.
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
I hope to help people. I hope that I can be the escape that they need when things seem impossible or too tough.