Escapism Quotes - Page 5

• People tend to turn to the type of entertainment that has an escapism quality.

  Melissa Joan Hart

  People, Quality, Entertainment

  "The "Little Show" That Could: 10 Years Later, Melissa Joan Hart Opens Up About 'Sabrina, the Teenage Witch'". Interview with Samantha Leal, www.marieclaire.com. February 29, 2016.

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• We used to have MTV and all these ways we can show our videos, and it was these rap shows, and it was everything. And then it became not cool to be conscious; it became cool to just hang out. Escapism rap became the norm. And, when I say "escapism rap", I mean getting high, get your cars, get your money, get your jewelry, go to the club, have your women, and it just became all about escaping your reality and not making your reality better on a real tip; not just on the have fun tip.

  Ice Cube

  Fun, Real, Rap

  "Ice Cube Says Hollywood Isn't Cool Enough, Adds: "I'm Ready to Run a Studio"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 25, 2016.

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• The new Bond film, will be a big, big hit, because every Bond film is an event. Fathers take their sons to it; probably grandfathers. It's been a long time, and I think that the success of Bond is because the audiences have never been cheated by the producers. They always spend every penny, put it on the screen, and then the things that people expect to see in a Bond film - big action scenes, glamorous ladies - it's pure escapism.

  Roger Moore

  Father, Son, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Every single bit of entertainment is escapism. It's because you are saying, "Let's see what this other person's life is like." And also it's beyond escapism, its entertainment and art as such can elevate the species. The entertainer supposedly is the muse. They're the ones who tell you what is wrong with society in a humorous way. They're the ones who do an expose about this or a documentary about that about the injustice of this. So it can be a very powerful medium.

  Bruce Campbell

  Art, Powerful, Humorous

  Source: www.stumpedmagazine.com

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• I think we're definitely playing up to characters. We see ourselves as a pop band. I don't have a pseudonym because I don't really need one, because I've got a weird name, but everyone has a stage name, and it's about a certain amount of escapism, really. The songs are inspired by the personal, but because there are seven of us that work on the songs together, they end up becoming Pipettes songs, rather than about any one individual.

  Gwenno

  Song, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We've been led to believe that we have a very dumbed-down society - and that people are not thinking and are just sort of interested in escapism. However, if you look at this young generation, what I've been noticing is that they are extremely compassionate. They are extremely globally aware and interested, and they want to participate in making the world a better place - but they don't know how. As adults we are failing them by not providing them with any sort of guidance, any map, or any blueprint to do this stuff.

  Kamala Lopez

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I understand that a lot of other actors don't have a choice. They have to eat so they need to work and they'll do films that they're not so proud of. But I've been fortunate enough to be given a second wind, so I try to pick projects I know will provide the audience the kind of escapism they want from me.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Choices, Trying, Proud

  Source: aalbc.com

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• People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.

  Piers Anthony

  People, Needs, Wells

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• Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

  Agnes Obel

  Music Is, Private Things

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People want fun and escapism at the moment. Look at the success of Guardians of the Galaxy. I think Nolan kick-started a very dark, bleak style of superhero escapism, and I think people have had enough of it.

  Matthew Vaughn

  Fun, Dark, Thinking

  "Matthew Vaughn: People "Have Had Enough" of Christopher Nolan's Dark Superhero Films" by Alex Ritman, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 5, 2015.

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• For me books have always been an incredibly solid part of my life, both as escapism and simply as resource.

  Jackie French

  Book, Resources

  "Jackie French, author". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. May 15, 2011.

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• Everything we do is escapism, because we'll all be dead and everything we do is completely meaningless. Why brush your teeth? Why not be in the park with the bums passing a short dog? Why pay taxes, why get educated? Of course literature is an escape. You have to fill the hours.

  T.C. Boyle

  Dog, Teeth, Why Not

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The show is escapism. If you look back to when I was in college, all the girls in the sorority houses were gathered around watching soap operas. That was the escapism, the show that was giving you something you couldn't have. Now, you go into any sorority house, there are 50 to 100 girls piled in watching The Bachelor. We are the modern-day soap opera.

  Chris Harrison

  Girl, College, Giving

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I loved underground comics and psychedelic art. I did like some supernatural horror, but mainly fantasy. I was into escapism.

  Arik Roper

  Art, Psychedelic, Fantasy

  Source: dailydead.com

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• I don't think it necessarily makes me want to go back to my 20s, but what I love about playing any type of character is the escapism.

  Sutton Foster

  Character, Thinking, Want

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Movies and novels, the two things that informed and taught me the most, are forms of escapism. I thought that was how life could look if you wanted it to.

  Jason Diamond

  Two, Looks, Taught

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Hope is one of the Theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think) a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do. It does not mean that we are to leave the present world as it is. If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Mean, Thinking

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, Reading, World

  Alberto Manguel (2014). “A History of Reading”, p.27, Penguin

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• The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Christian, Thinking

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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