Get Away Quotes - Page 5

• I think we think that American books are funny or they're serious literature. But humor is subversive. When you add an element of absurdism, you can get away with more, work in dark, daring questions you might not have written toward otherwise.

  Idra Novey

  Book, Dark, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think being honest with one another creates an environment that's comfortable. You want to know where you stand, whether you're doing a good job. The players know what's going on before you do. They're trying to see if you're going to do something about it. And when it's not like that, everybody is pissed off, because they know that people can get away with stuff and that nobody is keeping them in line. That's not a team to me.

  Mike Babcock

  Team, Player, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I'm process-orientated, and people say that about the details. But I love the players. My No. 1 job is to make them better men. My No. 2 job is to make them better at hockey, and I never confuse that. The best people I've ever been around in my life never let me get away with anything - ever. You can have all the details in the world, but if you can't communicate with people and find a way to help them help themselves, you have no chance in this league. To me, that's what the profession is about: getting guys to believe in themselves and each other.

  Mike Babcock

  Believe, Hockey, Player

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• When people started reading me and talking to me about the work, they didn't say how funny, or how satiric, or how brilliant, or how this or how that, they said, how'd you get away with it? How'd you get that into print?

  Jules Feiffer

  Reading, People, Brilliant

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Me and my wife were interested in avoiding style, in eliminating voice, in getting away from the poetry logics, textures, and propulsions that we normally employ in our writing. But we arrived at even this organically and separately.

  Ben Doller

  Writing, Wife, Style

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I stopped drinking a few years ago, and drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble. You can get away with that your 20s, but not in your 60s, and I'll be 70 next year. Life is a small space now, much more intimate. I'm not out there in the world anymore, but I'm watching.

  Robert Wyatt

  Drinking, Giving, World

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• People have their morals, but morals aren't concrete. People think because I'm a Muslim that I pray five times a day, but you're never going to see that on a day-to-day basis. People fluctuate. To me, that was the most specific way to put it, the best way to be like, "I listen to this music, but it's the most violent music on the planet." But I like it, and to make up for it, I don't say the cuss words. That's how I get away with it.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Thinking, People, Moral

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm not twentysomething. I'm not trying to find myself - I know exactly who I am and exactly what I want. And I don't want a fan. I want a man who understands me, who challenges me, who calls me on my sh-t instead of letting me get away with it because I'm supposed to be a star. I want a best friend.

  Taraji P. Henson

  Men, Challenges, Trying

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I write like anyone involved with a family and a full time job: in stolen moments. I've had to adapt because I have so little writing time, so I write while dinner bubbles on the stove, and get away to cafes when I can. It is good to have a small laptop to haul around. I wish I could admit to bizarre writing habits, you know, like "I can only write in the presence of my favorite pet elephant, who is my fount of inspiration," but the truth, alas, is far more mundane.

  Vandana Singh

  Inspiration, Writing, Pet

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• Nick Сage and I can't make love in movie? That's scary. And our hero? Arnold Schwarzenegger? Using a body as a shield against bullets? Hey - the world's a big place, and people get away with what they get away with, but to attack David Lynch for doing things I've seen in many movies, that's weird.

  Laura Dern

  Hero, People, Scary

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• I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about. I just stand there and sing. And I don't do stunts or anything. if I wanted to do all that, I don't think I'd get away with it.

  Adele

  Thinking, People, Confusing

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• There are moments when you feel that the desire to work is fading, and the only way to bring it back is to get away from it, to put yourself in a state of frustration so you feel the need again.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Frustration, Desire, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.

  John Bolton

  Korea, Nuclear, Weapons

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• I deliver very traditionally, and people aren't threatened. I think if I cursed or seemed wilder, I couldn't get away with the amount of very opinionated politics I get away with.

  Elayne Boosler

  Thinking, People, Opinionated

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• With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes.

  Marlon Brando

  Snakes, Long, Bamboo

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

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• I'm kind of at a point in my career where I can get away with traditional stuff and then get away with some more rocky and pop and edgier stuff, too.

  Luke Bryan

  Careers, Stuff, Kind

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• My dad is very successful in his business. He's always been big in having hobbies and having little ways to get away. He always made time for hunting and fishing. He always encouraged me to do it.

  Luke Bryan

  Dad, Successful, Hunting

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• I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.

  Octavia Butler

  Savages, Fierce, Let Me

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• I really love to ride my motorcycle. When I want to just get away and be by myself and clear my head, that's what I do.

  Kyle Chandler

  Racing, Motorcycle, Riding

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I was a boy if a girl got pregnant the shame was placed on her and the boy could get away.

  Bill Cosby

  Girl, Boys, Shame

  "Q&A: Bill Cosby Talks Family, Faith and Tim Tebow". Interview with Mark Hensch, www.christianpost.com. December 15, 2011.

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  The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Fun, Challenges, Comfort

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• Sometimes I go out disguised, but people still recognize me, so I find there is no point in even trying. It would be nice to get away from it, from time to time, but the fact is, there is no place on earth where I can go unrecognized.

  Jonathan Davis

  Nice, People, Trying

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• Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Bankers, Thieves, Lucky

  "Preying on the Poor". www.tomdispatch.com. May 17, 2012.

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• In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

  Brian Eno

  Song, People, Track

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• As a director, I really wanted to learn and I needed to get away from my own stuff to figure out how to just do things and work with good people.

  Paul Feig

  People, Stuff, Directors

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