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  • Real art has been... what's the word? Kidnapped? No, that's not it. But, OK, kidnapped by business. -- Vivienne Westwood
  • With 'Kidnapped,' there didn't seem to be a sure hand guiding it: everything had to be run-up-the-pole, so to speak, and there seemed to be a large committee, every day fighting about what the show was about. -- Timothy Hutton
  • I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything. -- John Mortimer
  • I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books to read you can always read Shakespeare. -- Robin Hobb
  • CRUEL HARVEST by Fran Elizabeth Grubb is a compelling, riveting, unforgetable memoir that will keep you turning the pages. Published by Thomas Nelson and due for release August 2012. Kidnapped from an orphanage Frances is dragged across the country working in the fields. Youtubefrangrubb to see video book trailer. -- Fran Elizabeth Grubb
  • This Islam business kidnapped me. -- Oriana Fallaci
  • For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped. -- Patty Hearst
  • Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. -- Andy Warhol
  • When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room. -- Woody Allen
  • My character was kidnapped by the Terminator and I was kidnapped by the Terminator production. -- Claire Danes
  • My parents were overprotective because you could get kidnapped and bombs were exploding in the streets. -- Mia Maestro
  • Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan. -- Olivia Wilde
  • I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof. -- Rodney Dangerfield
  • I myself had to grow a longer beard and Afghan clothes. I was in danger of being kidnapped by smugglers, though I didn't know it at the time. -- Mohsen Makhmalbaf
  • I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped. -- Farnaz Fassihi
  • He was very concerned about his children potentially being kidnapped or attached, and that's why they were covered up. When he went to Berlin zoo, there were 200 photographers. -- Martin Bashir
  • We had some problems - my children were kidnapped during that time, and it just changed my whole way of thinking, from being in show business and everything else. -- Solomon Burke
  • My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-driven with my nanny next to me to stop me being kidnapped. -- J. G. Ballard
  • In 1975, when my students were kidnapped by rebels, I was accused of hiding instead of trying to save them, and of not giving enough money for their ransom. I wasn't believed. -- Jane Goodall
  • Well, you know, they were - they were a terrorist group. They - when I was kidnapped they published all of their statements about their war that they declared on the United States. -- Patty Hearst
  • I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying. -- Barbara Kingsolver
  • A diplomat had been kidnapped, a cabinet minister had been kidnapped, they were under threats of murder. The police forces were rather tired. After a whole week, we were unable to find those that had effected the kidnappings. -- Robert Bourassa
  • The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who 'disappeared'. That's what the candle is for. -- Peter Benenson
  • I was kidnapped by Sunni insurgents near Fallujah, in Iraq, ambushed by the Taliban in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan, and injured in a car accident that killed my driver while covering the Taliban occupation of the Swat Valley in Pakistan. -- Lynsey Addario
  • I was shooting a bikini promotion in Mahe in the Seychelles in 1980 when there was a military coup and I, along with a roomful of other people, ended up being kidnapped and held hostage at gunpoint in a windowless room with no ventilation for 36 hours. -- Brigitte Nielsen
  • There's an overwhelming sense of paranoia in the suburbs. People there seem so much more paranoid to me than people in the city about their kids being kidnapped or their parties being raided or their drinks being spiked. There's a kind of hysteria about that. -- Meg Rosoff
  • I've been on 'Criminal Minds' twice! On the first show, a boy brought kids out to the woods and was beating them with a baseball bat, but I got away. Then they brought Tracy, my character, back - as a kidnapped girl. They saved me two times! Tracy lived! -- Elle Fanning
  • In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...' -- Brian Eno
  • When people say, 'How did you start in comedy,' I say my family was kidnapped by ninjas when I was very young, and to get them released I had to do a killer five-minute set. And even after I did that, you know, I started doing comedy under tough circumstances, I still kept at it because I enjoyed it. -- Hannibal Buress
  • Yes, I kidnapped that Lindberg baby. -- Chuck Palahniuk
  • Aren't you scared your kid's getting kidnapped...RIGHT NOW? -- Aziz Ansari
  • Let the world feel your compassion: Help save kidnapped Yazidi females! -- Widad Akrawi
  • Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. -- Andy Warhol
  • It wasn't enough to be kidnapped, I had to be insulted too. -- Charlaine Harris
  • I hadn't expected to be kidnapped today or I'd have worn something more conservative. -- Jeaniene Frost
  • I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed. -- Margaret Atwood
  • I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • And my parents finally realize I'm kidnapped and they snap into action immediately: They rent out my room. -- Woody Allen
  • But he was not kidnapped. ... It's in his imagination. He creates his own world and he believes it is reality. -- Gerard Latortue
  • These mercenaries and hirelings kidnapped civilians in the Al-Faw Peninsula so that they might claim that they captured Iraqi soldiers. -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
  • When I was kidnapped as a child my parents sent a letter to the hijackers me Pay 5,000 dollars or your back -- Rodney Dangerfield
  • ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.... -- Nikki Giovanni
  • The only time the press doesn't sensationalize information is when one of their own is kidnapped. Interesting how they show restraint then. -- Jim Norton
  • It's amazing how email has changed our lives. You ever get a handwritten letter in the mail today? 'What the? Has someone been kidnapped?' -- Jim Gaffigan
  • And the bad guys love to pick on the defenseless necromancer. This time, though, I swear I wonâ??t get kidnapped or possessed. ~Jaime Vegas -- Kelley Armstrong
  • Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep. -- Andy Warhol
  • The saddest sight these days is the image of hundreds of thousands of children kidnapped and lured into being child soldiers from the age of eight. -- Roger Moore
  • I'm not a thrill seeker. I'm not looking to get kidnapped. I'm not looking to get a shot at. I've been shot at. I didn't like it. -- Henry Rollins
  • You were kidnapped not?I was kidnapped.You were forced not into marriage?I was forced into marriage.You want not an annulment?I want not an annulment. -- Deeanne Gist
  • Now then, what do we know? One, that Professor Fassbinder and his daughter have been kidnapped. Two, that someone has kidnapped them. Three, that my hand is on fire. -- Peter Sellers
  • A werewolf tossed me against a giant packing crate while I was trying to rescue a frightened young girl who'd been kidnapped by an evil witch and a drug lord. -- Patricia Briggs
  • He's looking for the president's kidnapped daughter; everybody he calls on to help him is busy, but lo and behold, you look across the room, and I'm waiting for that action. -- Derek Luke
  • I was kidnapped by aliens, they came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by wearing a wig and laughing in a foreign accent, and I escaped. -- Neil Gaiman
  • I've got it! I've got it! It'll make front-page headlines around the world. You can have me kidnapped, and then a couple of days before the fight I'll show up again -- Muhammad Ali
  • An actress should never, ever, be asked to run beside a van in red disco boots for more than about half a block, and then only if her child is being kidnapped. -- Roger Ebert
  • Is it reasonable to assume that someone who has been locked in a closet for 57 days after being kidnapped and brutalized, raped, abused, then they say you're going to rob a bank? -- Patty Hearst
  • You have ten minutes. Tops. (Carlos) I have been knocked overboard, shot at, kidnapped, handcuffed, terrified, and held prisoner. I will not be told how long to take in the loo. (Gabrielle) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • If I see another game that involves a kidnapped princess, queen, king or other royal family member, I'll scream. In the same vein, I think the karate genre has been done to death. -- Andy Eddy
  • This is the first adventure Iâ??ve survived without being kidnapped, attacked, knocked unconscious or possessed by evil spirits. A ripped blouse? Ruined skirt? Bad hair? Iâ??d call this progress. ~Jaime Vegas -- Kelley Armstrong
  • We're not Americans, we're Africans who happen to be in America. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. We didn't land on Plymouth Rock - that rock landed on us. -- Malcolm X
  • Have you ever slept with a member of a race of another color? Have you ever committed culpable homicide? Have you ever bombed anything? Have you ever murdered anyone? Have you ever kidnapped anyone? -- L. Ron Hubbard
  • Was that Will?" she said finally. Henry arched one ginger eyebrow. "Perhaps he's been kidnapped and replaced by an automaton," he suggested. "It seems possible..." For once Charlotte could only find herself in agreement. -- Cassandra Clare
  • Over 270 girls were kidnapped for going to school in Nigeria! They are still missing! I'M outraged and you should be too!! I'm supporting www.globalfundforwomen.org Join me and take a stand!!!!!!! #Bringbackourgirls #revolutionoflove -- Madonna Ciccone
  • When I was a kid I got no respect. The time I was kidnapped, and the kidnappers sent my parents a note they said, "We want five thousand dollars or you'll see your kid again." -- Rodney Dangerfield
  • I was amazed as people must be who are seized and kidnapped, and who realize that in the strange world of their captors they have a value absolutely unconnected with anything they know about themselves. -- Alice Munro
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