Get Away Quotes - Page 22

• Men may not read the gospel in sealskin, or the gospel in morocco, or the gospel in cloth covers, but they can't get away from the gospel in shoe leather.

  Donald Barnhouse

  Men, Shoes, Morocco

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• Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

  Graham Swift

  Writing, Impulse

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• I think the purveyors of e-books are only too happy for this atmosphere of 'everything belongs to everybody' to increase because it means they don't have to think so much about the original maker of the thing, or they can get away with paying them less.

  Graham Swift

  Book, Mean, Thinking

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• There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence.

  Sam Shepard

  Thinking, Culture, Heritage

  "Getting Faster With Age: Sam Shepard’s New Velocity". Interview with Patrick Healy, www.nytimes.com. February 12, 2010.

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• What I loved about playing the corpse is that obviously somebody else got to do the physical part. It appeals to the part of me that likes playing character parts and getting the chance to get away from my own physicality.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Character, Likes, Chance

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• Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

  Chuck D

  Art, Reality, People

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• After 12 intense years of rock music, I was happy to get away from making a record and going out on a tour. When I did it, I wanted to feel inspired. After a while I finally had my fill working on other people's music, and I started coming up with music on my own and said, 'This could be for me.

  James Iha

  Rocks, Years, People

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• I won’t let anybody get away with anything just because he is little.

  Margaret Wise Brown

  Littles

  "Do Childish People Write Better Children's Books?" by Katie Roiphe, www.slate.com. March 29, 2012.

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• I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.

  Julianna Baggott

  Writing, Bored, Childhood

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• Any time you get a chance to do something different or get away from your appearance or get away from what people are used to seeing, I think it's always good.

  Mark Consuelos

  Thinking, People, Different

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• There's something about the way of playing a repellent character, that if you can play him with a certain amount of charm, you can get away with a lot.

  Curtis Armstrong

  Character, Play, Way

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, music.avclub.com. December 12, 2006.

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• After all these years, it's still amazing what Obama is allowed to get away with. He says low gas prices in 2009 were caused by a terrible economy, but then claims that the lower number of illegal aliens crossing the border is because of his border policies, not the same lousy economy.

  Howie Carr

  Years, Numbers, Borders

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• I want to get away from the social vampires in Tucson. The people who have no lives of their own and meet me and know who I am and feel entitled to say negative things. I have good friends here, especially in the bands. But a lot of it is just like high school.

  Neko Case

  School, Good Friend, Who I Am

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• We have to get away from the class warfare and recognize that we are growing jobs by helping small business.

  Norm Coleman

  Jobs, Class, Warfare

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• Bad guys are complicated characters. It's always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don't have a heroic code you have to live by.

  Peter Dinklage

  Fun, Character, Play

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

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• Repetitiveness is one of the things that's most difficult to get away from in genre pictures, because people come specifically to see certain kinds of things but get disappointed if they're presented in the same way. So to try to find a new way to show old stuff is always the challenge.

  Joe Dante

  People, Challenges, Trying

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• But I never let a fantasy get away, because I always stop to analyze it.

  Shelley Duvall

  Fantasy

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• The further I get away from coaching, the more I know I made the right decision. You almost forget how wonderful family life is.

  Tony Dungy

  Decision, Coaching, Forget

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• If you don't physically age gracefully, it's a bit sad. I think Steven Tyler can get away anything, because he still looks like he did in '73. Especially from row Z backwards in an arena. As long as the Stones keep their hair and don't get fat they'll get away with the wrinkles.

  Joe Elliott

  Thinking, Wrinkles, Hair

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• Except I'm aware that as a writer you can't get away with as much writing for children as you can with adults. Children have much more finely tuned senses of justice, morals, and ethics. They are much more Platonic: children are symmetrical, before we begin to fragment them with our own nonsensical ideas and squelch their natural joy in knowledge.

  Alan Bradley

  Children, Writing, Ideas

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• I have no musical talent at all. I was banned from music classes and told I would never be able to understand anything. I still don't think I can sing, but somehow I get away with it.

  Andrew Eldritch

  Thinking, Class, Musical

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• I've certainly had to go through trying to change the fact that I was always identified as the widow of Notorious B.I.G. You know, I'm never going to be able to get away from having been married to him, but that's not what identifies me. You know, my life isn't just about that.

  Faith Evans

  Trying, Widows, Able

  "Singer Faith Evans Talks Christmas Hip-Hop". Interview with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. December 21, 2005.

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• The belief that we are what the media says we are, what people perceive we are, is soon to be what we think we are. We are treated based on this warped perception. It is hard to get away from it.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Thinking, Media, People

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• Boys are slobs... One reason is that mothers let them get away with it. Mothers are notorious for spoiling male children.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Mother, Children, Women

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• The awful thing about being fat is you can't get away from it. Everywhere you go, there it is; all round you; hanging and swinging, yards and yards of it, under your arms, everywhere. And everyone else is so thin.

  Charlotte Bingham

  Yards, Weight, Arms

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