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That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life. -- Ella Maillart
Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment. -- Alexander McQueen
People talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful! -- Margaret Forster
It's all about escapism. That's essentially what all movies are about. It's a vicarious thrill. -- Todd Phillips
I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun. -- Charlie Kaufman
A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs. -- Wentworth Miller
Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there. -- Chuck D
Escapism has value, even if I don't know what its value is, exactly. Maybe it's just part of some healthy way that we deal with the world. -- Lev Grossman
My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism. -- Wayne Brady
Escapism and wonder is influence. It makes you feel good, and that allows you to do things. You just keep on moving ahead, and you say, 'God, is this wonderful - do I appreciate it.' -- Michael Jackson
It would be easy to say that I want to play a role that was very much like myself, but more or less with acting, you get to be all these different things, and you aren't trying to be yourself, so it's escapism in a way. -- Summer Altice
Escapism- that's what I like. I'm not so crazy about the reality of everything. -- Michael Jackson
I think escapism is really important. -- Jordana Brewster
My books are just pure escapism for kids. -- Dav Pilkey
Bond was escapism, but not meant to be imitated in real life. -- Roger Moore
I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while -- Jeri Ryan
People who read on holiday always have a better time because it's total escapism, both physically and mentally. -- Jasmine Guinness
Everyone wants to escape, everyone's drawn to escapism to leave their lives for an hour or two, and we're all so curious as human beings. -- Josh Bowman
For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is. -- Iggy Azalea
One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I did. -- Meg Cabot
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
It's really fun to be in a film that's pure entertainment, that people want to go and see. I think, in the current climate, the state of things, people want escapism. -- Sienna Miller
I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism. -- James Cameron
Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting. -- Eric Hoffer
Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break. It's not inner turmoil. It's total escapism. -- Florence Welch
It strikes me that people want to be engaged, and that those who go into a bookstore in a time of crisis are much more likely to be looking for explanation than for escapism. -- Michael Korda
The fact that the public are mesmerised by Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and all these miserable people makes me laugh because those celebrities are more miserable than the people reading about them for escapism. -- Corey Taylor
I think what makes Narnia a magical place is that it offers escapism - escapism from a world that is so different from the reality known by the characters and the reality known by the fans. -- Will Poulter
I think escapism is very important, certainly in my life. I love nothing more than escaping into the world of a film or a novel. To be involved in creating that for other people is a privilege. -- Ben Barnes
The narrative of so many fairy tales are timeless in so many different cultures, and they have been since the dawn of man. They represent escapism, but they all feature themes that have such poignancy in a modern world. -- Lily Cole
Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads. -- Andre Breton
Expeditions are escapism. The stuff that we're normally concerned about just doesn't matter out there. Tax returns, gas bill, none of it. Life becomes very simple, it's about moving in a certain direction - north if you're going north - staying warm and not getting eaten. That's it. -- Ben Saunders
All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product. -- Keira Knightley
But I was always much more interested in reading fashion magazines than I was music magazines when I was a teenager. Just that sense of romanticism and escapism and the dream of it has always been quite alluring to me, as well as that sense of becoming a character through clothes. -- Florence Welch
I'm a sucker for entertainment and escapism as much as the next person. I like silly and lowbrow stuff, but I get nervous when I indulge in that too often. I want to know what's going on in the world. I have a morbid fear of being surprised by bad news. I want to anticipate everything. -- Martin Donovan
Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away. -- J. Maarten Troost
Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy. -- Gabrielle Union
Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape -- Loren Eiseley
An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful -- Thucydides
Jimi Hendrix's music was escapism. -- Perry Farrell
Music can be a source of escapism. -- Danielle de Niese
Acting has always been such escapism for me. -- Kelly Reilly
The only people who hate escapism are jailers. -- C. S. Lewis
Our society's need for escapism has always interested me. -- David Lloyd
My head'll explode if I continue with this escapism. -- Jess C Scott
People love escapism and there should be a place for it. -- Tom Hiddleston
I think Queen songs are pure escapism, like going to see a good film. -- Freddie Mercury
People tend to turn to the type of entertainment that has an escapism quality. -- Melissa Joan Hart
People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it. -- Piers Anthony
I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while. -- Jeri Ryan
You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It's fairly cheap entertainment; it's classic escapism. -- John Lasseter
I have to say I do read partly for escapism. Why can't I escape and learn something? -- Christopher Bollen
People want to be entertained when they watch dramas. 'Mistresses' has a mixture of escapism and reality. -- Shelley Conn
That is what art is at the end of the day: It's an escapism that we all crave. -- Lauren Jauregui
I always wanted to be able to buy nice things, but the appeal of music was the escapism. -- Paul Young
I love the Potter films. I found them the most wonderful sort of escapism every year or two. -- Eddie Redmayne
I think we love the escapism of something like 'Cinderella,' and I think we do with 'Thor.' -- Kenneth Branagh
In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism. -- Rachel Weisz
I loved underground comics and psychedelic art. I did like some supernatural horror, but mainly fantasy. I was into escapism. -- Arik Roper
For me books have always been an incredibly solid part of my life, both as escapism and simply as resource. -- Jackie French
Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism. -- Agnes Obel
This, it would turn out, is the main thing we had in common: a susceptibility to the brassy escapism of myth. -- Steve Almond
escapism isn't good or bad in itself. what is important is what you are escaping from and where you are escaping to. -- Terry Pratchett
I grew up very much in a sporting background. I always wanted to be an actor, but my escapism always came in sports. -- Bradley James
I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content. -- Dan Deacon
[Sometimes] I sit in front of my [gaming] console with my headphones on and I play. I love that. It's a nice form of escapism. -- Idris Elba
I live in my own bubble. I was looking for an audience that wouldn't necessarily be looking for escapism when they came to my comics. -- Art Spiegelman
I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses. -- Michael Jackson
Fiction is just that-fiction. Yes, it is serious business, but it should also be taken for face value. It's entertainment. It's escapism. It's 365 pages of relaxation. -- Rachel Wade
I don't think it necessarily makes me want to go back to my 20s, but what I love about playing any type of character is the escapism. -- Sutton Foster
The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do. -- C. S. Lewis
I like to laugh. It's kind of escapism. I like to make people laugh. And I kind of like people just to have to not think about anything -- Chelsea Handler
Movies and novels, the two things that informed and taught me the most, are forms of escapism. I thought that was how life could look if you wanted it to. -- Jason Diamond
Judging others is too often escapism dressed in the garb of righteous indignation, whereby I dutifully point out in others that which I probably should be pointing out in myself. -- Craig D. Lounsbrough
I think it's misleading to think that art is only there for escapism, only there for our dreams of being rich and f - king whoever we wanna f - k. -- Saul Williams
It may be that the seemingly intrinsic attraction that past time has for me is merely a desire for escapism, as I look out at the nation and world with little optimism. -- David Souter
How would I like to be remembered? As a person who came and brought light to the world, some escapism. Also as the voice for the voiceless children, because I love them. -- Michael Jackson
I don't deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty. -- Walter Bonatti
That's what's great about show business. It's escapism. You pay your five bucks to get in and sit there and you're in another world. Forget about the problems in the world. It's wonderful. -- Michael Jackson
I know the world that I am painting is not a reality. It is a whim, an entertainment to provoke something in people, whether as escapism or relief. I think that is very valid. -- Tim Walker
What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of the monotony that other people called the real world? -- Cornelia Funke
I was a big fan of John Cassavetes, his wife, Gena Rowlands, and that era of filmmaking which was about realism and which represented the antithesis of the dreamy escapism you found in musicals. -- Carmen Ejogo
I was a big fan of John Cassavetes, his wife, Gena Rowlands, and that era of filmmaking which was about realism and which represented the antithesis of the dreamy escapism you found in musicals." -- Carmen Ejogo
A studio allows me more freedom. You can create your own sort of reality which is actually more exciting than shooting on location. You can conjure up a complete atmosphere of escapism for the public. -- Ken Adam

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