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Theater dressing rooms are my home away from home - my second home, really. -- Cheyenne Jackson
Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. -- Phyllis Diller
Adventure must start with running away from home. -- William Bolitho
While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach. -- Mary Church Terrell
I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel. -- Tom Hanks
May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home. -- Trenton Lee Stewart
To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life. -- Miguel Syjuco
I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination. -- Anna Deavere Smith
A man away from home need feel no shame. Let's go out there and shame ourselves like crazy. -- KAORI
When away from home always be like the kind of man you would care to take into your own home. -- William J. H. Boetcker
You can run away from home But you can't run away from your pain I sit here alone There's always someone else to blame. -- Ben Harper
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. -- E. W. Howe
Obviously, I'm recognized on the street and I am away from home a lot more and, let's face it, I have an action figure of myself! -- Emma Watson
We gotta figure out a way to pay our teachers more. They're like surrogate parents away from home. They have such a huge responsibility and they're underappreciated and underpaid. -- Justin Timberlake
Fairs are good places to eat, particularly for stand-up eaters--which is one of the kinds of eaters I am, although when I eat standing up away from home I sometimes miss the familiar cool breeze coming from the open refrigerator. -- Calvin Trillin
It seems like a cliche, but you do grow up a lot faster when you travel a lot, go through things like this interview, spend time away from home and hang around with other actors. It's inevitable that you're not going to have a so-called normal childhood. -- Matt Dillon
Being away from home gave me the chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ashamed of a real hunger for knowledge, something I had always tried to hide, and I came home glad to start in here again with a love for Europe that I am afraid will never leave me. -- Jackie Kennedy
People think that there is so much money in tennis, but the reality is unless you're ranked in about the top 50 you don't earn much at all. It is hard to support yourself travelling the world, to be away from home most of the year and to pay for a coach to help you become a better player. -- Samantha Stosur
I'm lucky because I have a job I love. I really miss being away from home, being in my own bed, seeing my animals and siblings, having my moms cookies. I have a couple cats. I got a kitten about a year ago and now Im going on the road so I wont see him for a while. I feel bad. -- Michelle Branch
I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my career], because so many things are on the road. I just don't want to be away from my husband, my dogs and my home. I don't sing that much any more because that also takes you on the road. -- Jane Powell
The library was home away from home to my mom, and my family. We had spent every Sunday afternoon there since I was a little boy, wandering around the stacks, pulling out every book with a picture of a pirate ship, a knight, a soldier, or an astronaut. My mom used to say, "This is my church, Ethan. This is how we keep the Sabbath holy in our family. -- Kami Garcia
Glasgow has truly become my home away from home. -- Caitriona Balfe
Anytime you're away from your home filming, it messes with your head. -- Jennifer Lawrence
Having a home away from the media glare is important to world-class athletes. -- Mary Lou Retton
I go jogging for 25 minutes every morning, even if I'm away from home. -- Pierre Dukan
When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do. -- Patrick Swayze
I feel guilty about spending so much time away from home and loved ones. -- Peter MacKay
I visit London several times a year. It is my home away from home. -- Pierce Brosnan
If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it's not that much time away from home. -- Alan Jackson
It was hard to be away from home, but I am glad that I am home now. -- Miriam Makeba
I feel like I'm working on an oil rig right now. I'm away from home a lot. -- Hugh Laurie
It's hard being away from home. But other than that, performing is the highlight of my day. -- Martina McBride
Animal totems, like the tiger, come from the Other Side to protect us while we are away from Home. -- Sylvia Browne
Hmmmm... It's fun being in front of people, playing shows and all. But hotels? Being away from home? That's different. -- Grandmaster Flash
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. -- Jean Rhys
My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be at home. -- Tina Turner
It's fun when you are on tour to go a place you are familiar with in any given city. It's like being home away from home. -- Kerry King
The only other time I've been away from home was when I went to college. And that was just an hour away, so I could always go home if I needed to. -- Carrie Underwood
I ran away from home. I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States of America, because of that terror of discrimination, that horrible beast which paralyzes one's very soul and body. -- Josephine Baker
Lots of travel, away from home. -- Bob Hope
An expert is an ordinary fella away from home. -- Bum Phillips
I actually think I perform better away from home. -- Eric Molina
You can't run away from home without destroying somebody's world. -- Neil Gaiman
Scoring three away from home - you can't do better than that. -- Ray Stubbs
Travelling carries me to the surface, away from the deeps of home-thoughts. -- Mason Cooley
I heard a rumor that your mom and dad ran away from home. -- Bobby Heenan
You can't do better than go away from home and get a draw. -- Kevin Keegan
I really miss my family and my kids when I'm away from home. -- Elaine Cassidy
Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving. -- Shannon L. Alder
You can only run away from a house. Home is something you run toward. -- Michele Jaffe
Our motor car is our supreme form of privacy when we are away from home. -- Marshall McLuhan
I don't play games. I ran away from home because my Dad brought me an Xbox. -- Adrien Broner
Being away from home gave me a chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye -- Jackie Kennedy
The nice thing about being away from home is the feeling of excitement when returning to it! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Once in a while, people enter our lives and lessen the loneliness of being away from Home. -- Yasmin Mogahed
The sight of home looks best after you've traveled hundreds of miles to get away from it. -- Sam Ewing
The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away. -- Edward Young
Lyon are the same away from home as they are at home, they have the same way of playing. -- Carlo Ancelotti
After spending all of her girlhood fervently wishing she could run away from home? she'd actually done it. -- Tessa Dare
When buying a new house ... Buy the house far enough away from school so your kids can't come home for lunch. -- Phyllis Diller
Mom used to say I didn't run away from home my destiny just caught up with me at an early age. -- Red Skelton
Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you. -- Mary Boykin Chesnut
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. -- Jean Rhys
...if you are one tardy away from missing out on a big competition, you should probably make your coffee at home. -- Lauren Oliver
Dying in unfamiliar surroundings miles away from home, it cannot possibly be good. There is a great sadness about that I think. -- Ian Mcewan
hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home," I say. "Katniss, I live three houses away from you," he says. -- Suzanne Collins
My career always took me away from home, I was always away from home and I just wanted to be at home -- Tina Turner
I live for my children, so my number one rule is I won't go away from home for more than two weeks. -- Andrea Bocelli
England is the first country that I've had a no. 1 album in, so it is now officially my home away from home. -- Justin Timberlake
I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity. -- Franz Kafka
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home. -- Carl T. Rowan
When I was a kid I got no respect. I told my mother, I'm gonna run away from home. She said, On your mark... -- Rodney Dangerfield
I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better. -- Carolyn Heilbrun
If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again. -- Will Carleton
The Beat thing happened when I was younger. I used to run away from home, inspired by the Beats, like in '64 and '65. -- Tom Verlaine
Dying away from home, away from the soil of your birth - and to do so unseen and unmourned - is a profound horror. -- Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
The first couple of years in the minors were tough for me. My numbers were there, but being away from home so young was tough. -- Mike Trout
[The loss- of-strength gradient is] the degree to which military and political power diminishes as we move a unit distance away from its home base. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
I live a very simple existence when I'm not on the road. Because when I'm on the road making a movie, I'm away from home. -- Pierce Brosnan
I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being a kid. -- Catherine Opie
One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels. -- Jack McDevitt
She didn't know whether she was running away from something or running to something, but she admitted that deep in her heart she wanted to go home. -- Beatrice Sparks
In the ten years since I had run away from home...I had gone through more strange experiences than the average person crowds into a whole lifetime. -- W. C. Fields
A man's home is no longer his castle; it is no longer a place away from urgent tasks because the telephone breaches the walls with imperious demands. -- Charles Hummel
The patterns became even more vivid at Cardinal Hayes High School. That's when I began failing subjects and running away from home for days at a time. -- George Carlin
If I'm going to feel estranged and alienated and away from home I don't want anyone interrupting it to debate which berries to have in their pancakes. -- Rick Moody
One of our predecessors said, "Throwing away the inexhaustible treasury of your own home, you go with your bowl from door to door, acting like a beggar" -- Zicheng Hong
I'm Jamaican, man. I'm Jamaican first. You gotta understand that's where I'm from. That's home. That you can never take away from me. I'm a Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter. -- Donovan Bailey
I decided to quit 'Survivor: All-Stars' in order to be closer to my mother, who ended up passing away from breast cancer seven days after I returned home. -- Jenna Morasca
She had always thought applying to college would be exciting. Living away from home, meeting so many new people, Learning new things, making a few poor life desicisons.... -- Maureen Johnson
I don't feel any shame I won't apologize if there ain't nowhere you can go running away from pain when you've been victimized tales from another broken home. -- Billie Joe Armstrong
I left our home to work on a movie, and while I was away, my boyfriend [Billy Bob Thorton] got married, and I've never heard from him again. -- Laura Dern
And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet! -- Bram Stoker
Often we come home from a sharing session with a feeling that something precious has been taken away from us or that holy ground has been trodden upon. -- Henri Nouwen
God is out there watching you, even when you're away from home and that if you put your trust in God, you'll be all right in the end. -- Nicholas Sparks
Back in early 1983, my dad was tasked with keeping unions from organizing in his company's distribution centers. His work pulled him away from home for months on end. -- Jen Lancaster
Im Jamaican, man. Im Jamaican first. You gotta understand thats where Im from. Thats home. That you can never take away from me. Im a Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter. -- Donovan Bailey
If we wish to stop the atrocities, we need merely to step away from the isolation. There is a whole world waiting for us, ready to welcome us home. -- Derrick Jensen
I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me. -- Zadie Smith
I quickly learned to take anger and use it to motivate me. My sister ran away from home, and she was my world. And that was that. The guitar became my world. -- Meredith Brooks
The craziest part of being on tour is being overseas and having crazed fans so far away from home. They don't speak English, but they still know the lyrics. That's a trip. -- Tinashe
I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home. -- Quincy Jones
For only that which we knew and practiced at age 15 will one day constitute our attraction. And one thing, therefore, can never be made good: having neglected to run away from home. -- Walter Benjamin
I have sometimes played my best Davis Cup matches away from home when you stay in the moment a bit more. But it is tough when half the crowd are spitting on you. -- Lleyton Hewitt
Well, probably having to be away from home. When I come back I kind of feel like there's a routine going on that I'm not a part of, so that can be difficult. -- Lee Ann Womack
The lowlights... Sometimes you're away from home quite a lot, which can be difficult. It's not first class all the way, you don't stay in exotic hotels and have people running after you. -- Jill Douglas
Anyone that has a job that takes them away from home, I think, can understand the difficulties in maintaining consistency, not only with your family and those you love but with your friends. -- Heath Ledger
I can't drag myself away from 'Final Cut Pro.' It is a digital video editing system. I am obsessed with it, but I am always away from home, and I can't use it. -- Margaret Cho
When you become an artist you're working away from home for so much time. You really see what the use of time means to you once you're an artist and you travel so much. -- Schoolboy Q
You can't have a family when you're playing because you're away from home so much. So believe me, I won't be pitching forever. I won't make it to 300 wins or anything like that. No way. -- Pedro Martinez
Being away from home was tough, but the challenge and the thrill of being on Broadway was so fulfilling, and I'm thankful to my husband for making it possible and holding it down at home. -- Nicole Ari Parker
Perhaps being a parent has changed career more in that you ask yourself how long you'll be away from home. My eldest child is approaching school age so that becomes more important. They're less portable. -- Cate Blanchett

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