I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working.
Alice Hoffman

I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.
Nadia Comaneci

I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.
Hugo Weaving

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.
Huey Newton

I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
Jack Henry Abbott

I have been very fortunate as to escape through another day's very severe fighting and escaped unhurt.
John H. Morgan

I intentionally aided them by being there and blocking an avenue of escape for the victims.
Robert Iler

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

I never wore glasses except when I had to read a teleprompter at an awards show or drive, so I didn't notice much. I could exist in my head. It was kind of my escape from the world and my protection.
Nicole Kidman

I spent my whole childhood looking for an escape.
Dennis Rodman

I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.
Tanith Lee

I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character.
John Candy

I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.
William Ralph Inge

I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.
Peter Hook

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.
Thom Yorke

I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.
Zhang Ziyi

I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape.
Julie Walters

I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre.
Richard Foreman

I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
Adam Baldwin

I was one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn't escape left or right because of the will of the driver.
Adolf Eichmann