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• Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Form, Should

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• That is what art is at the end of the day: It's an escapism that we all crave.

  Lauren Jauregui

  Art, The End Of The Day, Ends

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break. It's not inner turmoil. It's total escapism.

  Florence Welch

  Fashion, Emotional, Break

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• I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses.

  Michael Jackson

  Writing, Giving, World

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

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• Travel is best when it's as unplanned as possible so that you get that real sense of adventure. The film 'Thelma and Louise' really encapsulates that - their travels are unplanned and spontaneous and therefore full of excitement, escapism and optimism.

  Douglas Booth

  Real, Adventure, Optimism

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• Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just distant enough to be able to laugh at things that are normally painful. Head teachers would call this escapism, but they would be entirely wrong. I would call fantasy the most serious, and the most useful, branch of writing there is. And this is why I don’t, and never would, write Real Books.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Teacher, Real, Book

  Diana Wynne Jones (2012). “Reflections”, p.158, Random House

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• That soul-destroying, meaningless, mechanical, moronic work is an insult to human nature which must necessarily and inevitably produce either escapism or aggression, and that no amount of 'bread and circuses' can compensate for the damage done-these are facts which are neither denied nor acknowledged but are met with an unbreakable conspiracy of silence-because to deny them would be too obviously absurd and to acknowledge them would condemn the central preoccupation of modern society as a crime against humanity.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Silence, Soul, Humanity

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• I'm a collector of cartoons. All the Disney stuff, Bugs Bunny, the old MGM ones. It's real escapism, it's like everything's alright. It's like the world is happening now in a far away city. Everything's fine.

  Michael Jackson

  Real, Cities, Cartoon

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• I'm sure that growing up in the Midwest played a role in my chronic escapism. In fact, before I lived in France, I lived in Japan, England, and Bulgaria. I was determined to experience other places and cultures, particularly because I had the perception that I'd been cut off from these experiences as a child.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Children, Growing Up, Cutting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I love the Potter films. I found them the most wonderful sort of escapism every year or two.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Years, Two, Potters

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of the monotony that other people called the real world?

  Cornelia Funke

  Real, People, Unhappy

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• I like to laugh. It's kind of escapism. I like to make people laugh. And I kind of like people just to have to not think about anything

  Chelsea Handler

  Thinking, People, Laughing

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• The fact that the public are mesmerised by Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and all these miserable people makes me laugh because those celebrities are more miserable than the people reading about them for escapism.

  Corey Taylor

  Reading, People, Laughing

  "60 Seconds: Corey Taylor". "Metro" Interview, metro.co.uk. March 7, 2007.

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• Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself; and when a reader is grasped and held by a book, reading does not feel like an escape from life so much as it feels like an urgent, crucial dimension of life itself.

  Rebecca Mead

  Book, Reading, Doe

  Rebecca Mead (2014). “My Life in Middlemarch”, p.24, Broadway Books

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• One way of understanding a graphic novel is that it's an ambitious comic and one way or another my comics have had ambitions. I have no problem with escapism. When I get my depressions all I want to do is escape reality.

  Art Spiegelman

  Ambition, Reality, Understanding

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Current cant equates fantasy with escapism, and current fashion would have it that fantasy is both easy to read and to write. It isn't. When it is done honestly, by a skillful writer, fantasy takes us far enough beyond our daily perceptions to open us to the essential realities beneath it. This is the true goal of all art.

  Ellen Kushner

  Fashion, Art, Writing

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• The narrative of so many fairy tales are timeless in so many different cultures, and they have been since the dawn of man. They represent escapism, but they all feature themes that have such poignancy in a modern world.

  Lily Cole

  Men, Dawn, Different

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

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• People love escapism and there should be a place for it.

  Tom Hiddleston

  People, Should

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• Mysticism has often been misunderstood as the attempt to escape this simple, phenomenal world to a more pure existence in heaven beyond. This is not mysticism, but Gnosticism. Biblical mysticism is the attempt to exit 'this world' to an alternative reality that pervades the old order. Its goal is to jettison the mind-set that says 'greed is good,' selfishness is normal,' and 'killing is necessary.' Mysticism in biblical terms is not escapism, as so many have caricatured it, but a fight for ethics and social change.

  Walter Wink

  Biblical, Fighting, Simple

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• One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I did.

  Meg Cabot

  Girl, Motivation, Book

  "My family values" by Meg Cabot, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2008.

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• Many spiritual people are involved in a radical denial of what is happening. They want to transcend it, get rid of it, get out of it, get away from it. There's nothing wrong with that feeling, but the approach doesn't work because it's escapism in spiritual clothing. It's wearing spiritual clothing and spiritual concepts, but it is really no different than a drunk in the gutter who doesn't want to feel the pain anymore. When you abide and accept everything completely and fully, you automatically go beyond.

  Adyashanti

  Spiritual, Pain, People

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• When I look back at what I've written and try to explain it, it doesn't help, but it helps to be in a process of writing. It's the same thing with reading - you lose yourself when you read as well. When I was younger I used literature that way, it was just escapism, a tool to run away from things.

  Karl Ove Knausgard

  Running, Reading, Writing

  ""Something that's not yourself." — An Interview with Karl Ove Knausgård". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. September 18, 2013.

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• The freedom to be someone else entirely and be different versions of something. That's what I loved and I loved watching movies and I loved watching television, I loved reading books. That kind of escapism into another world was my favorite thing.

  Gwendoline Christie

  Book, Reading, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I always wanted to be able to buy nice things, but the appeal of music was the escapism.

  Paul Young

  Nice, Able, Appeals

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• How would I like to be remembered? As a person who came and brought light to the world, some escapism. Also as the voice for the voiceless children, because I love them.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Light, Voice

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