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There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
Frank Herbert
Pay
Our
Ancestors
Escape
Violence
There's nothing in the world like getting up in front of a high-school classroom in New York City. They won't give you a break if you don't hold them. There's no escape.
Frank McCourt
You
World
Nothing
City
Give
Classroom
New
Like
Up
Escape
York
Front
Getting
New York
New York City
Hold
Break
Them
Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.
Franz Kafka
Possibilities
Hiding
Only
Escape
Again
Places
Many
Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation.
Frederick Soddy
Ignorance
Science
People
Men
Living
Charge
Impact
Civilisation
Scientific
Effect
Escape
Mode
Precise
Modern
Regard
Modern Science
Hardly
Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.
Gary Gygax
Entertainment
People
Thrive
Think
Consider
Mindless
Able
Networks
Outside
Generally
Most
Another
Escape
Sitcoms
Form
I've seen 'Stalker' more times than any film except 'The Great Escape.'
Geoff Dyer
Great
Seen
More
Except
Times
Escape
Than
Any
Film
Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.
Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Great
Experience
Sometimes
Will
Characters
Escape
Create
Who
Trauma
Movies are about escape.
George A. Romero
About
Escape
Movies
Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?
Geraldine Chaplin
You
Reality
Rich
Marvelous
Escape
Want
Why
However, the economics of our business continued to deteriorate. We barely escaped bankruptcy a year ago, and in the aftermath of that escape we had to make some even tougher decisions.
Gerard Arpey
Business
Economics
Year
Our
Some
Deteriorate
Tougher
Had
Make
However
Continue
Escape
Escaped
Bankruptcy
Aftermath
Decisions
Barely
Even
For me, reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.
Geri Halliwell
Great
Me
Reading
Fingers
Without
Always
Escape
Getting
Burnt
Your
For most Olympic athletes, their training is their hardest challenge and where they push themselves to the limit. For Paralympians, training and competition is an escape from the hardships and struggles of their everyday life. That is the difference.
Giles Duley
Life
Training
Competition
Challenge
Hardships
Everyday Life
Everyday
Athletes
Struggles
Push
Most
Limit
Escape
Difference
Where
Themselves
Hardest
Olympic
If there's ever been a dark moment in my life... well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.
Gloria Estefan
Life
Music
Dark
My Life
Big
Out
Check
Well
Been
Escape
Wanted
Moment
Ever
I don't know how prisoners of war are ever heroes unless they escape.
Gore Vidal
War
Heroes
Unless
Know
How
Prisoners
Escape
Ever
The joke is that no matter how much we think we can evolve, we'll never escape our limitations.
Greg Mottola
Matter
Joke
Think
Our
Evolve
Never
Limitations
How
How Much
Escape
Much
Fantasy is more than an escape from the truths of the world and the past: it is an open acknowledgment that those truths are complex and morally difficult. It offers a different route to creating something which will resonate with readers, in a way which resists the erasure of privacy and autonomy which pervades our modern world.
Guy Gavriel Kay
Privacy
World
Resonate
Will
Past
Difficult
Our
Way
Complex
Those
Morally
Something
More
Open
Readers
Escape
Than
Offers
Truths
Modern
Different
Which
Autonomy
Acknowledgment
Modern World
Fantasy
Creating
Route
The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from palling reality - hence, phenomena rather than persons are the logical 'heroes.'
H. P. Lovecraft
Reality
Logical
Law
Heroes
Punch
Some
Cosmic
Rather
Simply
Weird
Tale
Truly
Escape
Than
Fixed
Transcending
Persons
Hence
Violation
Phenomena
Imaginative
He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.
Haile Gebrselassie
Angry
Me
Remember
Father
Difficult
Runner
Would
Could
Beat
He
Catch
Him
Always
Quick
Very
Escape
Wanted
Us
Even
I know I got to do something that's one in a million, to escape a refugee camp, to come to this country and have so many doors open for me. So I want to go back and make a difference and give motivation or hope to all the kids that never got to leave or have the privilege that I did.
Halima Aden
Hope
Me
Country
Doors
Back
Kids
Give
Something
Never
Open
Come
Know
Make
Make A Difference
Got
Leave
Go
Motivation
Camp
Privilege
Escape
Did
Refugee
Difference
Want
Many
Million
I did a film called 'The Escape Artist' for Francis Coppola. I had the title role.
Harry Anderson
Francis
Had
Escape
Role
Did
Artist
Title
Film
Coppola
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
Love
You
Man
Yourself
Revenge
Say
Bit
Ability
Gives
Because
Escape
Acting
They Say
Reinvent
Shy
Everyone uses art for different reasons: We use it as entertainment. We use it as an escape. We use it as comfort. Everyone uses it for different reasons.
Hayley Kiyoko
Art
Entertainment
Everyone
Comfort
Escape
Different
Use
Different Reasons
Reasons
Uses
I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - you can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control.
Helena Bonham Carter
Life
You
World
Thought
Own
Control
My Own
Because
Got
Escape
Just
Where
Agent
Create
Your
Right
The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.
Henry Louis Gates
Poverty
Case
Insists
Simply
Escape
Anyone
Working
Working Hard
Hard
Right
Sometimes a malfunctioning test setup actually gives the tested system a chance to show what it can do in an unrehearsed emergency. During a test of an Apollo escape system in the 1960s, the escape system successfully got the capsule clear of a malfunctioning test rocket.
Henry Spencer
Sometimes
Setup
System
Emergency
Gives
Clear
Got
Test
Tested
Rocket
Escape
Apollo
Successfully
Show
Actually
Chance
My first concept was for a game in which you were a prisoner of war and simply had to escape. If you were caught, you'd be brought back to the prison. The idea was for a non-combat game.
Hideo Kojima
War
You
Game
First
Prison
Prisoner
Back
Brought
Had
Simply
Idea
Concept
Caught
Were
Escape
Which
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