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• When, about fifteen years ago, I walked into Arshile's studio for the first time, the atmosphere was so beautiful that I got a little dizzy and when I came to, I was bright enough to take the hint immediately. If the bookkeepers think it necessary to make sure of where things and people came from, well then, I came from 36 Union Square. I am glad that it is about impossible to get away from his powerful influence.

  Willem de Kooning

  Beautiful, Powerful, Thinking

  ART news, Volume 47, No. 9, January 1949.

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• Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I'm talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. I'm in a New York state of mind.

  Billy Joel

  Beach, New York, Holiday

  "New York State of Mind" (song) (1976)

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• I can't wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it. At the moment if I did certain things people would look at it, consider it and then say "f off". But after a while you can get away with things.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, People, Waiting

  "Why it's OK not to like modern art". The Times, May 08, 2003.

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• To get away well is so very much! And to get away well is often so very difficult!

  Anthony Trollope

  Difficult, Wells

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children”, p.1749, e-artnow

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• The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Real, Writing, Genius

  "Composers On Music: Eight Centuries of Writings". Book by Josiah Fisk, p. 355. In conversation with Isaac Glikman (July 4, 1966), January 30, 1997.

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• The world is your oyster when you are successful. That was when I was getting scripts. I was planning for this. I like this business. Parts of it I love, and I didn't want it to just end. The further you get away from your success, the less your phone rings. The next thing you know, it's 20 years later and you're in a mall going, "Remember when Al and I used to do something like this.

  Tim Allen

  Successful, Phones, Oysters

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• How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.

  Margaret Drabble

  Vices, Unjust, Life Is

  Margaret Drabble (2013). “A Summer Bird-Cage”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All that stuff about my father and my childhood is interesting up to a certain point, but I kind of capsized with the family drama a long time ago. Now I want to get away from that. Not that I won't return to it, but a certain element has been exhausted, and it feels like why regurgitate all this stuff?

  Sam Shepard

  Drama, Father, Interesting

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• When I'm shooting, I just try to make sure I wouldn't be embarrassed of it later, because in Watertown, you don't get away with anything.

  Eliza Dushku

  Trying, Shooting, Embarrassed

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• I'm trying to get away from trashing women, to be honest. I think I've done enough of that in my career.

  Bill Burr

  Thinking, Careers, Trying

  "The Mouth That Roared: Q&A With Comedian Bill Burr, The Man Who Told Philadelphia To Go F*ck Itself, Hard, And Lived To Tell". www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2013.

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• I was so strictly brought up that the only time I could get away would be on my own pony. I could ride wherever I wanted on my godfather's estate in Kent.I wasn't brought up to be afraid of anything.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Would Be, Ponies, Estates

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is not crazy to think that powerful people do some pretty horrible things. And maybe they get out of hand. Maybe it just gets away from them. It snowballs.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Powerful, Crazy, Thinking

  "The Majority Report" with Janeane Garofalo, November 10, 2004.

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• Money and muscle, that's what I want; to be able to do any damned thing I want and get away with it. Money won't do that altogether, because if a man is a weakling, all the money in the world won't enable him to soak an enemy himself; on the other hand, unless he has money he may not be able to get away with it.

  Robert E. Howard

  Men, Hands, Enemy

  Letter to Harold Preece, c. June 1928.

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• When Ralph Goodale tried to tax Income Trusts they showed us where they stood, they showed us their attitude towards raiding Seniors hard earned assets and a Conservative government will never allow either of these parties to get away with that.

  Stephen Harper

  Senior, Attitude, Party

  YouTube Chanel "TubeMe6969"/ "Stephen Harper Income Trust Promise", www.youtube.com. November 2, 2006.

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• Freedom does not mean doing what you can get away with, doing what you please. It means, instead, having the opportunity to do what you ought to do--for family, and for community, and for humanity as a whole.

  Alan Keyes

  Mean, Opportunity, Community

  Alan Keyes' Address at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, California, www.keyesarchives.com. March 4, 2000.

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• Exceptions to the traditions of dumpy dignity and fake learnedness in law review writing are as rare as they are beautiful. Once in a while a Thomas Reed Powell gets away with an imaginary judicial opinion that gives a real twist to the lion's tail. Once in a while a Thurman Arnold forgets his footnotes as though to say that if people do not believe or understand him that is their worry and not his. But even such mild breaches of etiquette as these are tolerated gingerly and seldom, and are likely to be looked at a little askance by the writers' more pious brethren.

  Fred Rodell

  Beautiful, Real, Believe

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• I am speaking of something that is no longer happening - that is not currently going on. If someone is abusing you, or doing something illegal, or even something you refuse to tolerate, and it's still continuing, that is not an issue of forgiveness, that is an issue of making sure that stops - even if you have to get away from that situation - that's very important.

  Ysabella Brave

  Issues, Important, Illegal

  YouTube Channel "Ysabella Brave"/"Forgiveness", www.youtube.com. July 07, 2007.

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• I keep exercising even when the days are much shorter. Not only is this a great stress reliever for me to get in a nice run, but it's also my 'me time' when I can just get away from all the holiday season obligations.

  David Niu

  Running, Nice, Stress

  "Entrepreneurs Share 8 Tips To Boost Productivity During Holiday Chaos" by Sujan Patel, www.businessinsider.com. December 17, 2014.

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• Whether they're glad or mortified to have said whatever, Paul Fein wasn't going to let such good quotes get away from us.

  Bud Collins

  Said, Glad

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• I'm here to tell you that the path to peace is right there, when you want to get away.

  Pema Chodron

  Path, Want

  Pema Chodron (2006). “Practicing Peace in Times of War”, p.74, Shambhala Publications

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• How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. How do you get away from it? Improvise.

  Mark Steyn

  Practice, Carnegie, Halls

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• I hunt deer because they aren't capable of higher forms of thinking. All they care about is, 'What am I going to eat next, who am I going to screw next, and can I run fast enough to get away'. They are very much like the French in that way.

  Ted Nugent

  Running, Thinking, Deer

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• It's a difficult job to do, but that is why we do it. Only so many people can do it. But it, it enables you to... for a brief period of time to kind of get away. You have to go back and deal with, but it's a good escape.

  Brett Favre

  Sports, Jobs, People

  "Sunday Conversation: Brett Favre". Interview with Suzy Kolber, kwese.espn.com. November 24, 2004.

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• I'm not sure I agree with the thesis, because I think that even though something grotesque or gross has been part of film since way back, what we accept or what we can get away with on the screen is broader now.

  Ivan Reitman

  Thinking, Way, Film

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. May 17, 2000.

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• Hey man! Get away from me!

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Men, Hey

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