Get Away Quotes

• Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

  Jodie Foster

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Being Yourself

  "Diamonds, Pearls & Stones : Jewels of Wisdom for Young Women from Extraordinary Women of the World". Book by Barbara Warren Holden and Jennifer Read Hawthorne, 2004.

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• You can't get away from violence in drama. If you do not have conflict, you do not have drama.

  Cornel Wilde

  Drama, Violence, Conflict

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• Avoidance is a great tool to get away from food in my face all day long.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Food, Long, Tools

  Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.101, Penguin

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  Art is what you can get away with.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Freedom, Creativity

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• To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Travel, Vacation, Carpe Diem

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.249, Transaction Publishers

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• Art is anything you can get away with.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Artist, Art Is

  "Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man". Book by Marshall McLuhan, 1964.

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• Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Country, Moving, Differences

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.7, Hamilton Books

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• Reality is what you can get away with.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Reality, Pop Art

  Robert Anton Wilson (2002). “Tsog: The Thing That Ate the Constitution”

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• you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Moving, Lost Generation, Sun Rise

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.7, Hamilton Books

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• So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those b*****ds won't get away this time!

  Chesty Puller

  Marine, Fire, Usmc

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• They're on our right, they're on our left, they're in front of us, they're behind us; they can't get away from us this time.

  Chesty Puller

  War, Military, Marine

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• Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

  John Steinbeck

  Love, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

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• Why do three-quarters of NATO [countries] get away with not paying anything? They have to pay their bills.

  Michael T. Flynn

  Country, Pay, Bills

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• My mother loved my father. From my view, she let him get away with too much. It broke my heart to see him in an old people's home and stop being strong and lose his voice.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Mother, Strong, Father

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It's kind of condoned in our society: There are things that an abusive mate could get away with with their partner that they could not with a stranger.

  Rene Marie

  Our Society, Kind, Stranger

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Donald Trump has defined himself very well, not only in the primary election where he was absolutely disrespectful to his colleagues on the Republican side of the aisle and for [Carly] Fiorina who he basically said who would vote for you? Look at her face. She evidently wants to be a Republican leadership, a part of the Republican Party so bad that she would allow them and him to get away with that.

  Maxine Waters

  Party, Looks, Want

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The Limbaugh Theorem is the way Obama gets away with no accountability for anything he's done is he never was perceived as governing. He was always as an outsider campaigning all the time against powerful forces trying to stop whatever it was he wanted to do.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Powerful, Accountability, Trying

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I did not want to be the accompanist to an operatic star. But I was at a very high level for a 16-year-old, and I maintained that. So really good, but more impressive than classically trained. So I had to take a crash course in classical technique because I really wanted to get away with playing this character [in Florence Foster Jenkins] without people saying, "That's not really accurate."

  Simon Helberg

  Stars, Character, Years

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I loved working with [ Lars Von Trier], but I've done two films before, so I was quite used to him.He's a man of incredible moods of course, but he's also a hugely perceptive man, and there's no getting away from that. And he's able to put that perception into something like film, so we're very lucky.

  John Hurt

  Men, Two, Perception

  Source: www.filmslatemagazine.com

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• China only did the biggest devaluation in 20 years, only for one reason. Because they could get away with it.

  Donald Trump

  Years, Reason, China

  Source: www.economist.com

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• I think if I could not get myself off my cushion, off my couch, or away from whatever I'm eating - or drinking or partying or whatever - if I couldn't get away from that, I would have a heavy heart.

  Alice Walker

  Party, Drinking, Heart

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

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• I have a lot of theories about the beneficial effects of fiction, but I'm always trying to get away from them a little bit.

  George Saunders

  Always Trying, Fiction, Littles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There were several points where I would kind of turn to the book and say, "Get thee behind me." I don't think real novelists do that. But I make a distinction between prose that's very efficiency-minded (like, the minimum I can get away with), versus loosening the screws and letting the words spill out beautifully and so on.

  George Saunders

  Real, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I never went to drama school, so that was more like I was getting away with it.

  John Ratzenberger

  Drama, School

  Source: www.starwars.com

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• Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Beautiful, Summer, Spring

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (1914). “Friends O' Mine: A Book of Poems and Stories”

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