Quotes About Escape

I try to go to Marrakesh if there's a Bank Holiday weekend.

Music is my way of taking my mind away from the game. When I'm singing, you don't got anything to worry about. Don't gotta worry about scoring however many points or winning the game. No matter how good or how bad you are, it's fun.

My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.

No politician can expect to escape criticism for a controversial decision and we have to be robust in justifying what we do.

Indoor pools just don't seem as inviting to me.

I like laying by the pool but I do tend to get a bit bored after a couple of days chilling out.

I am passionate about making people believe that there is a world of which you can become a part for two hours in the theatre over popcorn.

I like to be someone else. I like to be someone other than myself. I grew up watching movies and being a fan of what I'd seen portrayed in the movies, and I always wanted to do that one day.

I went to America to get away from constantly being cast in costume dramas, playing posh people.

My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.

Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.

I actively avoided responsibility for as long as I possibly could.

I have this weird tropism for islands. Take me to an island as far from New York as I can possibly go.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

I write to escape; to escape poverty.

One of the over-riding things for many who grow up in poverty is the simple desire to escape. I think it was sort of obvious to me that escape had to be through education.

I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.

I spend my life writing fiction, so reading fiction isn't much of an escape. That's not always true, but I don't read much contemporary fiction.

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.

For me reading a book is what I like doing, curled up in a corner in a comfortable chair.

We have a cottage on the Mendocino coast.

If I'm allowed it, I'm really looking forward to a little time on the couch and a little time on a beach in Brazil.

I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, it's a great escape and I really enjoy it.

I think that 'Sound of My Voice' is about the claustrophobia of living today, and how do you crawl out of the claustrophobia towards the light?