Get Away Quotes - Page 18

• I'd make people say 'use Fork;' if I thought I could get away with it.

  Larry Wall

  People, Use, Forks

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• A man must generally get away some hundreds or thousands of miles from home before he can be said to begin his travels. Why not begin his travels at home? Would he have to go far or look very closely to discover novelties? The traveler who, in this sense, pursues his travels at home, has the advantage at any rate of a long residence in the country to make his observations correct and profitable. Now the American goes to England, while the Englishman comes to America, in order to describe the country.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Travel, Home

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.86, Yale University Press

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• Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind.

  Ken Robinson

  School, Mind, Sometimes

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.146, Penguin

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• Misfits need a place to get away, too. All that trying to fit in is exhausting.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Trying, Needs, Fit

  Twitter post from Aug 24, 2015

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• I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.

  Carl Barks

  Stories, Hell, Cynicism

  Carl Barks, Donald D. Ault (2003). “Carl Barks: Conversations”, p.104, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If I am in London I like a quick get away to The Olde Bell in Hurley It's nearby and no stress - great food and beautiful walks.

  Sadie Frost

  Beautiful, Stress, Bells

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

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• Honestly if a girl’s wearing, like, a Gucci shirt with a Gucci belt and a purse and a visor, that’s not cute at all. You can’t get away with that - with me - but you can always sprinkle it in there with your own stuff and it’s all good.

  Kreayshawn

  Cute, Girl, Sprinkles

  "Kreayshawn To Cover VMA Red Carpet For MTV.com" by Ellie Krupnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 25, 2011.

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• You cannot immunize sick, malnourished children and expect them to get away with it. You'll kill far more children than would have died from natural infection...It needs to be appreciated that children in developing countries are at a much greater risk of complications from vaccination and from mercury toxicity...because poor nutrition, parasitic and bacterial infections and low birth weight.

  Archie Kalokerinos

  Country, Children, Sick

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• If age, which is certainly Just as wicked as youth, look any wiser, It is only that youth is still able to believe It will get away with anything, while age Knows only too well that it has got away with nothing.

  W. H. Auden

  Believe, Wicked, Age

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• Only in America could you get away with the kind of comedy I did.

  Pat Morita

  America, Comedy, Kind

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

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• ... No one "gets away" with evil. Judgment always comes, only the timing is uncertain.

  Pat Robertson

  Evil, Timing, Judgment

  Pat Robertson (1984). “Answers to 200 of life's most probing questions”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Cartoon, Done, Painting

  Roy Lichtenstein, David Sylvester, Galerie Lawrence Rubin (1997). “Roy Lichtenstein: new paintings”

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• You can get away with breaking all of the other rules at least once in a while, but you can't get away with breaking this one. Readers will accept almost anything from you if you don't make them feel they have wasted their time and money. Remember, you can bore readers in a lot of different ways. It doesn't necessarily take a dearth of action; too much action can get you the same result. Everything in writing, like in life, requires balance.

  Terry Brooks

  Writing, Remember You, Remembers You

  Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.116, Del Rey

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• I rather like getting away from fiction.

  Penelope Lively

  Fiction

  "I'm not a historian but I can get obsessively interested in the past". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2001.

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• 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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