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• I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.

  Peter Hook

  Thinking, Mind, Would Be

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• I think Queen songs are pure escapism, like going to see a good film.

  Freddie Mercury

  Song, Queens, Thinking

  "The Man Who Would Be Queen". Melody Maker Interview, www.queenarchives.com. May 2, 1981.

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• I think escapism is really important.

  Jordana Brewster

  Thinking, Important

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

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• My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.

  Wayne Brady

  Mom, Letting Go, Growing Up

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• There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism, in fact you might say that science fiction is escape into reality... It's a fiction which does concern itself with real issues: the origin of man; our future. In fact I can't think of any form of literature which is more concerned with real issues, reality.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• It's really fun to be in a film that's pure entertainment, that people want to go and see. I think, in the current climate, the state of things, people want escapism.

  Sienna Miller

  Fun, Thinking, People

  "Sienna Miller: 'Whatever I say, I get myself into trouble'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2009.

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• It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you get to be all these different things, and you aren't trying to be yourself, so it's escapism in a way.

  Summer Altice

  Being Yourself, Play, Trying

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• Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dystopian Fiction, Culture, Violent

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• Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.

  Gabrielle Union

  Drama, Home, Light

  "Gabrielle Union talks about The Honeymooners". movieweb.com. June 07, 2005.

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• I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wall, Home, Men

  "On Fairy-Stories". Andrew Lang Lecture at the University of St. Andrews on March 08, 1939. "Essays presented to Charles Williams", 1947.

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• Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape.

  Loren Eiseley

  Drawing, Usual, Tasks

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.165, Library of America

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• Jimi Hendrix's music was escapism.

  Perry Farrell

  Hendrix

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• Fashion is, after all, a form of escapism, and in fact people are buying more special things than ever, nowadays. They deny and deny themselves, and wait and wait, and then they get sick of it and spend to make themselves feel better.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Feel Better, People

  Interview with Daisy Garnett, nymag.com.

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• For me, the value of a climb is the sum of three inseparable elements, all equally important: aesthetics, history, and ethics. Together they form the whole basis of my concept of alpinism. Some people see no more in climbing mountains than an escape from the harsh realities of modern times. This is not only uninformed but unfair. I don’t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty.

  Walter Bonatti

  Real, Climbing, Essence

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• I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.

  James Cameron

  Other Worlds, Fiction, Fantasy

  "Filmmaker, Inventor and Explorer". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 1999.

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• "Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all is to go within, now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Escaping, Self, People

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Jul 14, 2011

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• I think it's misleading to think that art is only there for escapism, only there for our dreams of being rich and f - king whoever we wanna f - k.

  Saul Williams

  Dream, Art, Kings

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• It's to a writer's advantage to contain within himself elements of each sex, or any sex. It's to his advantage because it makes him able to write from the female point of view as well as the male. In some cases, of course, you will find some homosexual writers who can only write from a f - - -'s point of view. But I don't regard myself as a f - - -! Some people may. Also audiences wanted escapism. They don't like too much protest or criticism of their way of life.

  Tennessee Williams

  Sex, Writing, Views

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think there seems to be a need for escapism at the moment. Maybe that's the type of world we're living in. It's a sanctuary, in a way, where you can immerse yourself in something that doesn't exist, whether that's TV shows or comic books or novels. it's not solely down to magic and vampires - that's in at the moment. but escapism, being a part of other worlds, is very good for you.

  Colin Morgan

  Book, Thinking, Tv Shows

  "Magical Sci-Fantasy 'Merlin' Catches Fire in Season 3". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. January 7, 2011.

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• The young man shivered. He rolled the stock themes of fantasy over in his mind: cars and stockbrokers and commuters, housewives and police, agony columns and commercials for soap, income tax and cheap restaurants, magazines and credit cards and streetlights and computers... 'It is escapism, true,' he said, aloud. 'But is not the highest impulse in mankind the urge toward freedom, the drive to escape?

  Neil Gaiman

  Men, Agony, Car

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• There's something about 'Strictly Come Dancing.' Everywhere I go, people wish me good luck; cabbies toot their horns. It's lovely. I have a theory: in straitened times, there's nothing like a bit of unapologetic escapism.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Good Luck, People, Dancing

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• Music is escapism from the grim realities of life. But then as soon as you escape into the music, from my point of view, I found I had to deal with the very things that I thought I was running away from. I wanted to hit those problems on the head and resolve them. So they didn't remain as issues in my psyche.

  John Lydon

  Running, Reality, Views

  Source: www.axs.com

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• Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.

  Antonin Artaud

  Men, Unhappy, World

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.100, Univ of California Press

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• An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.

  Thucydides

  Men, Effort, Poverty

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• My head'll explode if I continue with this escapism.

  Jess C Scott

  Relationship, Sex, Honesty

  Jess C. Scott (2010). “Business Plan: Building Brand Identity: An Indie Author's Advertising Plan”, p.48, jessINK

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