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I want my sons to escape the pressure to be a particular kind of masculine that is so damaging to men and to the people around them.
This is the most terrible thing that can happen in a friendly country if Thai people have to escape from the backdoor of an embassy.
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
For some men, life seems to be one long attempt to escape childhood and all the fears of childhood. That's what many of us are doing.
We as people often subscribe to hope to feel better about our lives, to escape the harsh and sometimes cruel injustices of the world.
It's a nice challenge to escape your reality. I think that's why actors do what we do. We like to play other people. It's therapeutic.
The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it.
Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.
You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.
Adventurous reading allows one to escape a little from the provincialities of one's home culture and the blinders of one's narrow self.
Supergirl is this unattainable, idealistic optimist of an alien, and all of us can escape into her world, and she always saves the day.
I grew up on romantic comedies and love watching those films. They were, like, a real joy and a source of great pleasure and an escape.
As a young boy in Libya, it was hard to escape the conclusion that the women were the most feeling and most functional part of society.
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
I'm obviously aware that most people don't agree with me, that people like to escape into a coherent world that is apart from their own.
When I did 'The Great Escape,' I kept thinking, 'If they were making a movie of my life, that's what they'd call it - the great escape.'
I can't escape crooning the 'Mitwa... Kahe Dhadkan Tujhse Kya' number wherever I perform. Basically, I am a classically rooted musician.
I always see gardening as escape, as peace really. If you are angry or troubled, nothing provides the same solace as nurturing the soil.
My album is very uplifting and positive and fun. That was my mission - to get people up on their feet and escape the seriousness of life.
Governments can't escape from taking tough steps. One can't be populist about it. You can't flirt with such serious issues like security.
Everyone wants to escape, everyone's drawn to escapism to leave their lives for an hour or two, and we're all so curious as human beings.
Road trips to me are just such an escape. You listen to your music, and you roll the windows down. You're usually going to somewhere fun.
Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters.
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'
While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps.
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 a lot of kids I've met in L.A. trying to act want to escape working long days and think acting is all photoshoots and red carpets.
I was raised in a really terrific, close family, and I've never needed to escape anything or to really let myself go by dancing on tables.
Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.
I did not go into comedy to escape anything. I went into comedy because I had parents who thought it was a reputable way to earn a living.
Spending time with the horses was also a good place to escape to if you were having a bad day, so it was good from a mental point of view.
There are millions of people living Thoreau's life of quiet desperation, and they do not have the language to escape from that desperation.
You cannot escape from the biological law of cause and effect - food choices are the most significant cause of disease and premature death.
For children of my generation, anime was an escape from Japan's loser complex following World War II. Anime wasn't foreign. It was our own.
In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.
For me, St. Petersburg is the city that I can never escape because it has this special energy, even a dark energy. It keeps pulling me back.
Portland is where all the fringe groups went to escape. Where the outliers brought that DIY, punk rock attitude and made the city their own.
Reading takes me to a different place than my everyday life. I usually get fully involved in what I'm reading about, so it's a great escape.
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.
Ofglen is a little different than the other Handmaids because she has a really rebellious spirit and she has the hope that she could escape.
I listened to the students on campus in Plymouth, worried about their steadily deepening debts and how on earth they would ever escape them.
The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
Death is the one predator we can't escape. But vampires have found the loophole so many of us crave. I think that's the allure of vampirism.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.
'Fortitude' is like the world in microcosm. It's like watching America or Russia, only you're isolated. Once you're inside, you can't escape.
As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they're an escape.
Movies have always been spaces of refuge for me. For a few harmonious hours, I could escape my reality of being a girl living on the margins.
I arrived at school pensive, introverted, and not very sporty, so magic became a place of mystery and intrigue, an escape for my boyish mind.