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"I think escapism is really important."

Jordana Brewster, American Actress

Escape, Escapism

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"I think escapism is really important."

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"If I could only escape, if I could only escape... he murmured the words to himself a dozen times; then metaphorically shook himself for being so impractical, so romantic, so dutiless."

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"No one loves us here, let's go to Mars."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"For the first time in his life, sex is located away from all danger, away from conflict and drama, away from persecution, away from any accusation, away from worries; he has nothing to take care of, love is taking care of him, love as he's always wanted it and never had it: love-repose; love-oblivion; love-desertion; love-carefreeness; love-meaningless."

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

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"I wish I could close my eyes and be blown into dust and nothingness, feel all my thoughts disperse like dandelion fluff drifting off on the wind."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

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"Every unpleasant worldly experience in life exposes our sensitive nervous systems to painful phenomena. Despite all the beer commercial advertisement slogans urging us to live with gusto, life is unavoidably painful. Life is a battering ram that inflicts trauma upon human beings. People blunt the traumatic force of enduring a lifetime of pain, fearfulness, and unremitted anguish and boredom with religion, sex, booze, drugs, fantasy, and other indulgent acts and forms acts of escapism."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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"Don't judge me for escaping the stresses and cruelty of the world differently than you do."

Dan Pearce, American Author

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"Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe. If you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become obvious yourself."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Escape, Alcohol, Life, Reality

"My reality isn't as gracious as it use to be, so I create things that are."

Nikki Rowe, American Writer

Escape, Reality, Creation, Mind, Imagination

"Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

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"I feel like directing is an innate talent."

"Well, I was lucky in that my being an actress totally overshadowed my having some kind of a... legacy at Yale, so that was kind of great."

"Oscar night is a ridiculous night where you go to these parties and you see everyone that you've ever wanted to work with and admire."

"I will not go on a blind date."

"I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered."

"I already have a production company called J Squared and we're working on two projects."

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