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I rather like getting away from fiction. -- Penelope Lively
There's no getting away from it: you have to clean. -- Anthea Turner
For me it's all about creating chaos.. and then getting away with it. -- Hafsa Shah
I'm concerned about organized religion getting away with what it gets away with. -- David Cross
We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again. -- Rick Riordan
Abstraction means getting away from a visual interpretation but nearer to an emotional one. -- Henry Moore
He married a woman to stop her getting away Now she's there all day. -- Philip Larkin
Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Music is my way of getting away from everything. It means a lot to me. -- Jesse McCartney
Sometimes getting away from school is the best thing that can happen to a great mind. -- Ken Robinson
After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it. -- Raymond Queneau
Stealing, you'll go far in life. Actually, there is something funny about getting away with it. -- Mike Judge
I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since. -- Akshay Kumar
Donald Trump is breaking every rule and getting away with it. He's breaking every rule and getting more popular. -- Rush Limbaugh
If you're trying to hide something, you wouldn't keep getting away with it for 10 years. Nobody is that clever. -- Lance Armstrong
He had been so busy getting away from the library, he hadn't paid attention to where he was going. -- J. K. Rowling
I feel fortunate about being able to make the music I want to make and getting away with it -- Duncan Sheik
I am a sporting man. I always like to give trains and aeroplanes a fair chance of getting away. -- Winston Churchill
It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view. -- Laurie Anderson
Rune: "They're getting away!"Thatz: "Our Dragon Knights honor is at stake! Let's get 'em!"Rath: "'Dragon Knights honor'? Really? -- Mineko Ohkami
Average people look for ways of getting away with it; successful people look for ways of getting on with it. -- Jim Rohn
For me, acting is about getting away from myself. So to look at myself is the last thing I want. -- Helena Bonham Carter
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. -- Kanye West
A better everyday life means getting away from status and conventions -- being freer and more at ease as human beings. -- Ingvar Kamprad
Every time I see Anthony Hopkins I think that, to some extent, he has just been getting away with it all these years. -- Liam Neeson
Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
We're the most violent nation on earth. There's no getting away from that. But you've got to look at it on a broader level. -- Spike Lee
We were always getting away with something, which implied that someone was always watching us, which mean were are not alone in this world. -- Miranda July
Employers able to work together with workers and sharing gains and profits will lead to a much better world, getting away from income inequality. -- Dolores Huerta
There was a 10- and 8-year difference between us, so my brothers were into tormenting me and I was into getting away from them. -- Josh Gad
I still fall back a lot on my Les Paul, and there is just no getting away from a Les Paul and a hot pickup. -- Art Alexakis
Whatever you build, youre building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie. -- J. B. Pritzker
Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie. -- J. B. Pritzker
The secret to getting away with lying, is believing with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself even more so than lying to another -- Elizabeth Bear
Bad weather has grounded the Luftwaffe and now we must stand by and watch countless thousands of the enemy getting away to England under our noses. -- Franz Halder
Frankly, I'm tired of the powerful getting away with all kinds of stuff. Hillary [Clinton] didn't win - and, folks, there are ways without an actual prosecution. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Travel is like a tonic to me. It's more than just getting away from the studio for a brief rest. I need it to recharge my batteries. -- Norman Rockwell
I love playing the bad guy getting away with stuff. I was that kid who learned from my older brothers who got away with everything by smiling. -- Kellan Lutz
Frankly, I'm tired of the powerful getting away with all kinds of stuff. Hillary [Clinton] didn't win - and, folks, there are ways without an actual prosecution. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Her only thought was of getting away, as if she were carrying a live grenade from inside the house, so that when it exploded, it would destroy just herself. -- Jennifer Egan
I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like my first book, Billy's Booger, got me in trouble with the principal's office. -- William Joyce
You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you've got-your everything. -- Bill Vaughan
You find them [leftists] everywhere now. They have moved in and corrupted everything, and they've done it by intimidating anybody who might oppose them. They succeed in getting away with calling people racists. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
You find them [leftists] everywhere now. They have moved in and corrupted everything, and they've done it by intimidating anybody who might oppose them. They succeed in getting away with calling people racists. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
This is an eternal and fundamental principle, inherent in all things, in every system of philosophy, in every religion, and in every science. There is no getting away from the law of love. -- Charles F. Haanel
Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues. There is no getting away from it; the old Christian rule is, "Either marriage, with completely faithfulness to your partner, or else total abstinence." -- C. S. Lewis
We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existence, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave. -- H. G. Wells
In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it. -- Phillip E. Johnson
I'm not really a science-fiction fan, I quite like the idea of getting away from the science-fiction side of it, for two episodes. It was lovely, it was a super story and great fun. -- Sarah Sutton
Traveling is a great love of mine. I love South America and Africa. I'm your ultimate backpacker when I'm away. It's just me and my backpack. It's good for getting away from the industry. -- Matthew McConaughey
Most magicians consider the palm an easy move to make. They are inclined to believe that they are 'getting away with it,' when they are in fact fortunate enough to have a polite audience. -- Dai Vernon
The leaping Jaguar on the bonnet, to me, makes it look more like a hunter than something that is getting away. It's a hunter. Richard III definitely would have had a chauffeur driven Jaguar MK X. -- Ben Kingsley
I get that rush that comes when you know you're doing something wrong and are getting away with it, like stealing from the school cafeteria of getting tipsy at a family holiday without anyone knowing it. -- Lauren Oliver
I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age. -- Gaby Hoffmann
I've been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing manipulative and villainous characters and playing characters that are affected by what happens to them as opposed to unaffected. -- Kevin Spacey
There was certainly, like, a rebellious, like, youthful rage in me. And there was also the fact of no getting away from fact that I am white, and you know, this is predominantly black music, you know. -- Eminem
We've had science fiction novels where China is dominant; we've had novels where India is dominant, and I suppose it's all about getting away from that cliched old tired idea that the future belongs to the West. -- Alastair Reynolds
Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence. -- Roy Lichtenstein
There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because sometimes you get hurt. -- Jim Butcher
Henry Ford didn't just create a cheap way of getting away from your in-laws; he basically understood that there was something in us as a culture that wanted to be on the move, that wanted to get out. -- Richard Rodriguez
Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you. -- Saffron Burrows
A lot of street crime is horrible, but in terms of the dislocation, the undermining of the family - the corporate criminals, many of whom reside in Congress and the White House - are getting away literally with murder. -- Jerry Brown
As long as we see abusers as victims, or as out-of-control monsters, they will continue getting away with ruining lives. If we want abusers to change, we will have to require them to give up the luxury of exploitation. -- Lundy Bancroft
I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc. -- Diane Wakoski
In terms of language, yeah we get bleeped and blurred and things, but in terms of content, I would probably say we're getting away with more here than we could get away with in Britain. And that surprised us so much! -- Graham Norton
It's kind of ridiculous that I find inspiration in just getting away from everything. But when you've gone through it, you realize that it's the enemy. It's a distraction from what you're really doing. You've got to keep moving. Like a shark. -- Jack White
There is nothing finer in the world than the telling of tales. Split atoms if you wish, but splitting an infinitive-and getting away with it-is far nobler. Lance boils if you wish, but pricking pretensions is often cleaner and always more fun. -- Greg Bear
People are getting away from the whole album experience, it's true. I think that's sad. Maybe I'm just saying that because I'm an old fart. But I can't help it - albums are what I grew up with, and I still love them. -- Alex Lifeson
Too many whites are getting away with drug use...Too many whites are getting away with drug sales...The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them, and send them up the river, too. -- Rush Limbaugh
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Setting fire to the roofs, getting away with the loot, suiting herself. She studied modern philosophy, read Sartre on the side, smoked Gitanes, and cultivated a look of bored contempt. But inwardly, she was seething with unfocused excitement, and looking for someone to worship. -- Margaret Atwood
For new bands, I think a major label is the safest place to be. Independent labels are the ones getting away with murder. A lot of them are hobbyists who rip-off young bands, taking advantage of people who would never get signed to a major. -- Jack White
In some ways, getting away from the headquarters and having a little time to reflect allows you to find errors in your strategy. You get to rethink things. Often, that helps me correct a mistake that I made or someone else is about to make. -- Larry Ellison
That was one of the most comfortable things about leaving baseball was to leave the environment. It's very much like a rock star existence - the nightlife, the hotels, lack of privacy... There's a lot of temptations out there. It was nice getting away from it. -- Mike Schmidt
Our world is built on adrenaline and getting away with it. Different cities different names. Its a far simpler life to lead when there is one around to tell you when you are being stupid. Believe me dear cousin I know better than anyone. - Gabrielle -- Ally Carter
I thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because it's so relaxing, so quiet and peaceful. I mean, there's no noise other than nature - and it's so different from what I do in a tournament situation that it just eases my mind. -- Tiger Woods
Because I never have any definite destination. This ship is not for going to places, but for getting away from them. When I stop at a port, it's only for the sheer pleasure of leaving it. I always think: here's one more place that can't hold me. -- Ayn Rand
Having spent all that time getting away from South Africa, running away from the army, I wanted very much to believe that America and England were actually as free as they were meant to be, not slipping rapidly into becoming police states like the one I'd just left. -- Richard Stanley
Why did God make tigers so good at catching prey, and at the same time make prey so good at getting away from tigers? You'd think that if God wanted one thing or the other to happen he'd have engineered it rather better. Maybe he enjoyed the spectator sport? -- Richard Dawkins
And then she poked him again. Not because he wasn't paying attention but because when she did it the first time she found she liked it. Mrs. Bunny might think she was getting away with this, but Mr. Bunny was silently counting the pokes to pay her back later. -- Polly Horvath
Every time you get something, give something away. -- Wendie Malick
It's easy to get carried away with yourself. -- James Nesbitt
People who never get carried away should be. -- Malcolm Forbes
Men who never get carried away should be. -- Malcolm Forbes
Art is anything you can get away with. -- Marshall McLuhan
Art is what you can get away with. -- Andy Warhol
I am not allowing myself to get carried away. -- Damon Hill
You can't get away from who you are I guess. -- Mark Edwards
I came back to Utah to get away from Hollywood. -- Mike Lookinland
I still like to get carried away - but passively. -- Robert Plant
I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with. -- John le Carre
The further away you can get away from yourself as an actor, the more fun you have. -- Scott Bakula
You just have to keep plugging away and if you get lucky enough to get a job, you get one. -- Michael Vartan
I thought if Oasis could get away with sounding like The Beatles, I could get away with sounding like Abba. -- Pete Waterman
I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way. -- Anne Rice
To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. -- Charles Horton Cooley
Any time you get a chance to do something different or get away from your appearance or get away from what people are used to seeing, I think it's always good. -- Mark Consuelos
The reason con artists get away with what they get away with is, their victims are ashamed of their own blindness and their own gullibility, and they tend to just quietly go away. -- Walter Kirn
These other rappers getting bodied and carried away. -- Drake
Getting carried away is stupid, it won't get me anywhere. -Nana Komatsu -- Ai Yazawa
While the cat's away, you may find the rats getting damned uppity. -- Simon R. Green
I do try and stay away from the stereotype and getting typecast. -- Elisha Cuthbert
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away. -- Aneurin Bevan
You are like a hurricane, there's calm in your eyes, and I'm getting blown away. -- Neil Young
It seems farther away now because there are no rockets getting there. Nobody is going. -- Alan Bean
The things you think about when you're a hair's breath away from getting yourself killed. -- Ilsa J. Bick
I think getting married and then running away for 10 months would be an absolute disaster. -- David Bowie
As The O.C. started up again, I started to feel myself potentially getting pulled away. -- Josh Schwartz
People are getting too far away from the real-world. Politics is just ridiculous, it's totally dysfunctional. -- Temple Grandin
Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away. -- Robert Baker Aitken
Husband and wife have no time left to spend together. Marriage took away our one reason for getting married. -- Erica Jong
My pictures are about getting as far away from reality as possible. Dreams should be part of our everyday life. -- David LaChapelle
I love getting cookbooks - people will give them to me, and I read them like novels and file everything away. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music. -- Phil Collins
Away with the idea of getting independence first, and looking for liberty afterwards... Our liberties, once lost, may be lost forever. -- Alexander H. Stephens
As I'm getting older, I'm moving away from calculations and measurement. I'm trying to be more open to vulnerability and mistakes. -- Micah Lexier
Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing. -- Rebecca Solnit
Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. -- Barbara Sher
On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away. -- John Ratzenberger
Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us. -- Eknath Easwaran

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