#escape

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it. ↗

— Wendell Berry

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I could easily escape to a hotel for a weekend and do absolutely nothing. ↗

— David Boreanaz

#absolutely nothing #could #easily #escape #hotel

He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping. ↗

— Thomas Brooks

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In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#analysis #believe #breach #cannot #continue

It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality. ↗

— Ellen Burstyn

#addicted #addictions #avoiding #basis #become

You can escape into a character. ↗

— John Candy

#escape #into #you

Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape? ↗

— Geraldine Chaplin

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I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge. ↗

— Hayden Christensen

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I had to escape the destruction of my father's bankruptcy and all that difficulty. ↗

— Brendan Coyle

#destruction #difficulty #escape #father #had

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it. ↗

— Benedict Cumberbatch

#being #cannot #england #escape #look