Marguerite Duras
Writer, Filmmaker
"It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are."
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Get Away
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Ernest Hemingway
Novelist
"you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another."
Marshall McLuhan
Philosopher, Media Theorist
"Art is anything you can get away with."
Kanye West
Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
"I don't know what's better: getting laid or getting paid. I just know when I'm getting one, the other's getting away."
Clarice Lispector
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"For only when I err do I get away from what I know and what I understand. If "truth" were what I can understand, it would end up being but a small truth, my-sized. Truth must reside precisely in what I shall never understand."
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"Art is whatever you can get away with."
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"Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?"
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"Reality is what you can get away with."
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"I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things."
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"But I never let a fantasy get away, because I always stop to analyze it."
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"For me, the question was, how can one take a live-action performance and put it in the parameter of one of those cartoons? How much can you get away with?"
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"If I was just normally intelligent, I could probably get away with it - but I'm fiercely intelligent and that's threatening."
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"There's a lot of political things happening out there that I'd really have to get away from."
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"The more you act the further you get away from the truth."
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"A Clinton presidency is an Obama third term. And it's very difficult for them to get away from it."
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"I'm here to tell you that the path to peace is right there, when you want to get away."
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"I am stuck in the 70's. I can't seem to get away from that era."
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"The trend now is to get away from stage bound sitcoms."
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"I took opera lessons. I can't read music to save my life, but I would just copy and get away with it. I think that they thought I could read music, but I can't. I would just listen. It was really me just mimicking. That's one of the reasons I decided I didn't want to do that anymore."
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"That for me is more important than anything when you're in the studio - to have somebody you can trust and who knows you, knows who you are and doesn't let you get away with anything."
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"I'd like to get away from earth awhile / And then come back to it and begin over."
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"Whenever he was in company he wanted to get away, and whenever he was alone he wanted company."
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"Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do."
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"I can get away with saying a lot of ideas that are young and naive. I'm liberated."
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"Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself."
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