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• In early youth, if we find it difficult to control our feelings, so we find it difficult to vent them in the presence of others. On the spring side of twenty, if anything affects us, we rush to lock ourselves up in our room, or get away into the street or the fields; in our earlier years we are still the savages of nature, and we do as the poor brutes do. The wounded stag leaves the herd; and if there is anything on a dog's faithful heart, he slinks away into a corner.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Dog, Spring, Heart

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• Maybe it's understandable what a history of failures America's foreign policy has been. We are, after all, a country full of people who came to America to get away from foreigners. Any prolonged examination of the U.S. government reveals foreign policy to be America's miniature schnauzer -- a noisy but small and useless part of the national household.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Country, Government, America

  P.J. O'Rourke (1991). “PARLIAMENT OF WHORES A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”

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• I try to get away from the pits as quickly as I can. I speak to my engineer when I get out of the car, usually there's some press to do, then I will go off and have a shower and get my dry, clean overalls and clothing on. I'll have a massage, stretch and something to eat. I don't sleep, but I try to close my eyes for a while.

  Allan McNish

  Eye, Sleep, Car

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• One ought to love society, if he wishes to enjoy solitude. It is a social nature that solitude works upon with the most various power. If one is misanthropic, and betakes himself to loneliness that he may get away from hateful things, solitude is a silent emptiness to him.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Loneliness, Solitude, Wish

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• the way with Ireland is that no sooner do you get away from her than the golden mists begin to close about her, and she lies, an Island of the Blest, something enchanted in our dreams. When you come back you may think you are disillusioned, but you know well that the fairy mists will begin to gather about her once more.

  Katharine Tynan

  Dream, Lying, Thinking

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• Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

  Solon

  Law, Break Through, Spiders

  In Diogenes Laertius 'Lives of the Eminent Philosophers' bk. 1, ch. 58.

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• I never considered acting while growing up. I just knew I didn't want to go into the saloon business: I wanted to get away from Kenosha. And once I left, never, ever did it cross my mind to go back. I went to college and thought I'd study law.

  Don Ameche

  Growing Up, College, Law

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• Whatever you build, youre building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.

  J.B. Pritzker

  Eye, Pie, Building

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• I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

  Gaby Hoffmann

  College, Thinking, Important

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• Having traveled initially to get away, ultimately we travel to come home.

  Mary-Lou Weisman

  Travel, Home, Coming Home

  Mary-Lou Weisman, Edward Koren (2003). “Traveling While Married”, p.23, Algonquin Books

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• Cities make people sick; they create living dead! Get away from the cities in every possible occasion! River does no harm to you; forest does no harm to you; wild flowers do no harm to you! When you are in nature, you are amongst the friends! Be clever, be in the nature!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Nature, Clever, Flower

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• It takes a little more time to get into the role, but not very much more. In making a record you don't have the sense of projection over a distance as in an opera house. We have this microphone and this magnifies all details of a performance, all exaggerations. In the theater, you can get away with a very large, very grand phrase. For the microphone, you have to tone it down. It's the same as making a film, your gestures will be seen in close-up, so they cannot be exaggerated as they would be in a theater.

  Maria Callas

  Distance, House, Records

  "Callas : The Art and the Life". Book by John Ardoin, 1974.

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• Sexual awareness is part of growing up. When you're growing up, you can't get away from sex.

  Jennifer Coolidge

  Sex, Growing Up, Jason

  Source: collider.com

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• Some music, it's meant just to make you dance and be able to celebrate and get away from all that kind of thinking. And so, I think it is important if you think your music can do that - to keep doin' it.

  Jack Johnson

  Thinking, Important, Able

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• You spend your childhood wanting to get out from your house and wanting to get away and out into the real world and then as adults we start to learn that things are not what we thought they were.

  Wyck Godfrey

  Real, Childhood, House

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometimes you need to get away for a few weeks just to figure out who you are again.

  Judd Apatow

  Needs, Sometimes, Week

  "Oscars Q&A: Judd Apatow & Leslie Mann". "Deadline" Interview, deadline.com. December 19, 2012.

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• Darkness is a lower energy than light, and when you bring light to the presence of darkness you don't have to warn it, you don't have to tell it that it has to get away. It can't survive. Light dissolves darkness. And so does love dissolve hate and so does joy dissolve sadness and so does faith dissolve doubt and so on.

  Wayne Dyer

  Hate, Sadness, Light

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• Even in an intensely mediated world, in a world that offers at least the illusion of radical self-invention and radical freedom of choice, I as a novelist am drawn to the things you can't get away from. Because much of the promise of radical self-invention, of defining yourself through this marvelous freedom of choice, it's just a lie. It's a lie that we all buy into, because it helps the economy run.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Running, Lying, Self

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 1, 2010.

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• There's something you can get away with when you know you're only going to be on one season. There's no sense of, "We should save that." It's just like, "Use that! Get it out there now. They could shut us down any second!"

  Seth Rogen

  Use, Should, Knows

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. May 31, 2007.

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• A guy said to me one time, something really profound, and it's so simple. It's that depression lies. It's a liar and you have to shut it down. There is nothing that alleviates it more than going out and doing something for someone else. It's almost like instant healing. Get away from yourself. People can't even get out of bed and it gets really severe. I've never been at that stage. Everyone goes through low and high and low and high and some people are blessed to be created on an even keel all the way through - but not me.

  Mel Gibson

  Liars, Lying, Blessed

  "Exclusive: Mel Gibson Finally Talks". Interview with Allison Hope Weiner, deadline.com. September 20, 2012.

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• I do get away maybe a little bit more than most coaches do, but that seems to have worked for me in my coaching career. I recommended the way not to get burned out from your job is to have some hobbies and get away from it when you can.

  Steve Spurrier

  Jobs, Careers, Coaching

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• I make films and do the publicity and interviews, but then I want to get away from it all and be on my own.

  Paul Walker

  Want, Publicity, Interviews

  Source: www.fanpop.com

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• I think controversy has this allusion of being controversial but it's totally not, which is why I'm trying to get away from it because it's just easy and automatic.

  Bo Burnham

  Thinking, Trying, Controversial

  Source: mancunion.com

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• You need to have a lot of close family around you, a lot of friends to keep you honest. Take your time, take a year and just slow everything down a little bit. Get away from the success part, stay with yourself. Go off on a beach somewhere or do something to keep yourself aligned right.

  George Lucas

  Beach, Years, Lots Of Friends

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• Comedy is more difficult than drama. I think it's really difficult to make someone laugh because people have very different comedic sensibilities. In drama, you can get away with being a great actor and surrounded by great actors and having good writing. But in comedy you have to listen and you have to perform with a certain rhythm, because if you don't, it's like playing a wrong note in the orchestra and you can hear the off key and it will fall flat and you won't get that instant response.

  Aimee Garcia

  Drama, Fall, Writing

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