I'm really into the idea of telling stories. Everyone needs stories. Everyone needs to escape every once in a while.
Luke Bracey
EscapeEveryoneIdeaStoriesNeeds
I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.
Thom Yorke
MusicThinkImportantEscapeSense
Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
Jean Cocteau
ManAlcoholMomentsComfortEscape
In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.
Sargent Shriver
PeaceProblemsPersonEscapeRun
Northern Ireland still suffers from its past, and it will take generations to escape sectarianism and for violence to end totally. Nonetheless, it is in a different place now than during the Troubles, and it will not go back to the old days.
Jonathan Powell
PastEndViolenceBackPlaceEscape
If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.
Paul Eldridge
EscapeAgainstWouldCommittedTrial
I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.
Dennis Rodman
ChildhoodLookingEscapeWholeSpent
North Koreans are forced to work at state jobs in a moribund economy. Countless parents watch their children go to bed hungry. Many North Korean families feel they have no option but to try to escape.
Lee Hyeon-seo
WorkChildrenParentsFeelEscape
Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.
Dean Koontz
MeBookHouseEscapeWayKid
There are those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.
Katherine Dunn
TimeTalentMediocrityEscapeStrive
A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
Clare Boothe Luce
EyesMirrorWomanManSelfEscape
I wanted to escape the drudgery of a small town existence. Any place bigger than Gwalior was fine. I took the first train to Delhi because that was the only fare I could afford.
Harshvardhan Rane
SmallSmall TownTrainPlaceEscape
I don't believe that man was built to be put in a 5-by-7 for 30 years and have his sanity when he comes out if he doesn't find something to escape.
Anthony Ray Hinton
ManBelieveFindEscapeYearsOut
My first book is about twins who are attached: two people who are joined and can't escape each other.
Darin Strauss
PeopleBookEscapeFirstTwo People
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.
Alice Eve
LoveGreatRomanticJoyEscapeReal
If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.
Ben Nicholson
ArchitectureYouEscapeTempleWest
ICOs cannot escape startup evolution characteristics. This means that their growth will be hard fought, hard earned, and hardly a walk in the park.
William Mougayar
GrowthWalkEvolutionEscapeWill
Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
Walter Scott
BeautyEscapeUsFacesMostCharmed
I think that there should be more artists that want to be the escape for people, for the fans, for the public.
Poppy
PeopleThinkWantEscapeMoreFans
I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
FamilyLoveAmericaBornEscapeWay
Our delusions of omniscience play a role in our ideas of not only what we want but also what we want to escape.
Sheila Heti
IdeasPlayWantEscapeRoleOnly
The anorexic body is held in the grip of will alone; its meaning is far from stable. What it says - 'Notice me, feed me, mother me' - is not what it means, for such attentions constitute an agonising test of that will, and also threaten to return the body to the dreaded 'normality' it has been such ecstasy to escape.
Rachel Cusk
MotherAloneMeMeaningBodyEscape
We know an organised workforce cannot be enslaved, but when governments fail their citizens and allow corporations to escape the rule of law, slavery can flourish.
Sharan Burrow
LawSlaveryRule Of LawKnowEscape
I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.
Nadia Comaneci
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