One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.
Criss Angel
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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.'
Steve McQueen
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Society cannot escape what is essentially a moral question: When does human life deserve legal protection from the state? And society certainly cannot escape this dilemma by denying that it is fundamentally a moral issue, no matter what position one chooses.
Blase J. Cupich
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The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it.
Robert Crippen
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A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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I could always escape into this demi-monde of homosexuality, which I feel really indebted to. It stopped me being a 'mummy's boy.'
Rufus Wainwright
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At home, when the heating pipes made noises, I imagined a tiny person was in there skipping with a rope. The fantasy world of tiny things became my escape.
Willard Wigan
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A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
Lucius Accius
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I'm not running for office. I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character, not as anything else.
Vince Vaughn
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Each and every novel is a world outside the world - for a reader to visit, for comfort, consolation, escape, or challenge.
Joshua Cohen
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You couldn't escape the literary atmosphere in our home. I grew up as a Britisher. I played a protagonist of every nationality in stage adaptations of Shakespeare and Brecht. I graduated from Yale. When I moved to the U.S., I realized with some amount of surprise that I was seen as an ethnic actor.
Satya Bhabha
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We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.
Nic Pizzolatto
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I came from the projects. So there were times I'd wake up at night, and my palms would be itching to get out. But no matter where I was, I always looked at the stars, because there's nothing ugly about the sky. That was my escape.
Desiigner
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People are just obsessed with other people's lives. I don't know whether it's kind of a way to escape their own, or something to follow... I really couldn't tell you.
Lauren Conrad
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We all face difficulties of our own, and how comforting it is to immerse yourself in a book - my book, any book, any romance. It's entertainment, it's escape, and it can even be an inspiration!
Debbie Macomber
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Movies are about escape.
George A. Romero
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Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection because they are so small.
Brian Greene
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There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
Frank Herbert
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I had no agent, and I was getting approached by so many people that I tried to escape for a while because I couldn't believe that world. Photography is not an industry, and suddenly an industry came to me, so I sort of had to accept it in the end and get an agent.
Anton Corbijn
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The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it.
Elia Kazan
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It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.
Alice Hoffman
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I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.
Zhang Ziyi
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Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
William Golding
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