Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.
Julien Green
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I never knew how protective I was until I had my own child. I'm already thinking about intruders coming into the house and what our escape route would be.
Jessica Simpson
ChildThinkingHouseEscapeMy Own
Fantasy is more than an escape from the truths of the world and the past: it is an open acknowledgment that those truths are complex and morally difficult. It offers a different route to creating something which will resonate with readers, in a way which resists the erasure of privacy and autonomy which pervades our modern world.
Guy Gavriel Kay
PastWorldCreatingPrivacyEscape
As a little kid in the late 1960s, I was afraid of the world. Even if I didn't get caught in the draft that was sending American teenagers to Vietnam, there was always the possibility of a Soviet nuclear attack. I made constant escape plans and imagined a life going from port to port.
Andrew Solomon
LifeWorldAmericanLateEscapeKid
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.
Hisham Matar
WomenSocietyFeelingYoungEscape
Am I the only person who wishes he could escape his own life for a few hours?
Andre Aciman
LifePersonWishesEscapeOwnOnly
The joke is that no matter how much we think we can evolve, we'll never escape our limitations.
Greg Mottola
ThinkEscapeMatterNeverEvolve
Every work of art is a great promise of escape and, therefore, like an open invitation.
Maurizio Cattelan
WorkGreatArtEscapeOpenPromise
We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
Eric Hoffer
FireFreeFeelEscapeEvenPan
I think one of the major themes in 'Escape Fire,' really, if you break it down, is that huge institutions, the military, the Safeway Corporation and others, are being forced to change.
Matthew Heineman
ChangeFireThinkYouDownEscape
One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.
Ella Maillart
GreatMindIllusionDoneEscape
We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.
Michael Eisner
ChangeTechnologyWaveNewEscape
I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment.
David Knopfler
CollegeGoEscapeGravityPunishment
There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity.
Stephen Hawking
LightBlackEscapeInfinitySense
The fact that I was fortunate enough to escape contagion, in spite of frequent, sometimes daily contacts with the disease, was because I soon guessed how it spread.
Charles Jules Henry Nicole
DailyEnoughSometimesEscapeSpread
Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.
Simon Callow
ChildhoodMeInfluenceEscapeBig
When I first got famous in the '60s, I got a little too famous, and in order to escape showbusiness, I moved to Hawaii.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
FamousHawaiiEscapeFirstLittle
Creating a character on or off the stage is an escape.
Roger Moore
CharacterCreatingEscapeStageOff
To portray something that you're really not, it's like a little escape, and I love to act and to be dramatic. I feel like the wrestling ring in WWE is the perfect platform to do that. It's totally acceptable.
Alexa Bliss
LoveFeelYouPerfectEscapeRing
Washington is gripped by crab-in-the-bucket syndrome. And there's no cure in sight. Put a single crab in an uncovered bucket, and it will find a way to climb up and out on its own. Put a dozen crabs in a bucket, and 11 will fight with all their might to pull down the striver who attempts escape.
Michelle Malkin
FightClimbFindDownEscapeWay
When we started after Osama bin Laden, we really decided to go after the Taliban. And we seemed to be content to kick the Taliban out of Kandahar. And then we let Osama bin Laden escape from Tora Bora.
Wesley Clark
GoEscapeContentOutKickStarted
We produce motor drive electronics; we produce cargo systems for large narrow-body and wide-body airplanes and, more importantly, the emergency escape chute that goes on these planes.
Louis R. Chenevert
DriveEscapeMoreEmergencySystems
You can't live in Austin and escape the music.
Terrence Malick
LiveMusicYouEscapeAustin
I don't think I can ever escape from music.
Jason Derulo
MusicThinkI CanEscapeEver
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