Cliche Quotes - Page 12

• I'm not a guy who likes cliches. I don't think that stereotypes and cliches are the end of the line, when it comes to a performance.

  Chris Bauer

  Thinking, Guy, Lines

  Source: collider.com

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• Subtract miracles from Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, or Toaism, and you have essentially the same religion left. Subtract miracles from Christianity, and you have nothing but the cliches and platitudes most American Christians get weekly (and weakly) from their pulpits.

  Peter Kreeft

  Christian, Buddhism, Miracle

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• I've often felt unattractive or different looking. As I've grown up, I've felt more comfortable in my own skin. It may sound cliche, but when you feel beautiful and strong on the inside, it shows on the outside.

  Angelina Jolie

  Beautiful, Strong, Skins

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• Timing is everything. That's a cliche. Now. If I'd said that a long time ago, I'd have been original.

  Demetri Martin

  Long, Timing, Said

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• This is such a cliche, but I feel like filmmaking is a collaborative experience.

  Steve Antin

  Filmmaking, Feels

  Source: collider.com

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• Honestly, you got to take care of the people that take care of you. I know that sounds like cliche, or borderline phony, but that's the case. The reason I've had the fans that I have is because I've been consistent over the years and kept coming back and doing the same runs. I'm never going to stop doing the cities I've gone through. I'm only going to add.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Running, Years, Cities

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• May we all beware lest our innovative ideas appear very cliche before we even blink.

  David Livermore

  Ideas, May, Blink

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Audiences are hungry for something different. With binge-watching, they're hungry for interesting content they haven't seen before, and they want to be entertained. A lot of shows are grim, murky and dark. We wanted to spin away from the obvious, the tropes, the cliches and what people are doing right now, and do something different.

  Miles Millar

  Dark, People, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• I think we're always trying to avoid tropes. And I think that "Game of Thrones" has almost made killing people a cliche. For us, it wasn't about that. For six episodes, it's hard to invest in people, and I think when you kill a main character on television it really needs to mean something. So we certainly had talked about that, and I think we managed to juggle the ball to make a gripping, interesting and compelling finale. We feel that we didn't have to go there at this point because we had such few episodes.

  Miles Millar

  Character, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• You can't do anything if a person says no. In such a case, there's nothing you can do - unlike the popular cliche that pressure is exerted, or that maybe an unwilling source is done away with.

  Markus Wolf

  Pressure, Done, Source

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• You start to realize that the things that are different about you are the things that make you special. And, as cliche as at that sounds, you realize that if you are lucky enough to have something that is different about you...don't try to hide it. I don't try to blend in anymore, it's all about standing out.

  Taylor Swift

  Special, Trying, Sound

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• The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

  Patrick Stump

  Heard, Music Business, Seems

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I did everything pretty cliche as an actor in New York. I read the trades, I sent out 'head shots.'

  Nicole Ari Parker

  New York, Actors, Shots

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• You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving.

  Hank Azaria

  Winning, Awards, Honor

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• It is a cliche, and it is also true, that humor springs from existential pain - from a need to blunt the awareness that life is essentially a fatal disease of unpredictable symptoms and unknown duration.

  Gene Weingarten

  Pain, Spring, Needs

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• I don't necessarily look for what I respond to in a script. I look for things that scare me, and take that as an indication that I should probably do it. I don't want to be bored. I look for challenges. I look for a variety of different things because it's so easy to go the cliche route.

  Liana Liberato

  Bored, Challenges, Scare

  Source: collider.com

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• There's definitely some pieces in there that reflect on my personal life, but really, they aren't as personal as everybody thinks they are. I would like them to be more personal. The emotions, the songs themselves are personal. I can't do it - I've tried to write personally and it just doesn't seem to work. It would be too obvious. Some things that you could read in could fit into anyone's life that had any amount of pain at all. It's pretty cliche'.

  Kurt Cobain

  Song, Pain, Writing

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• A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is pure synthesis, putting the rainbow together. This is not so. All imagination begins by analyzing nature.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Art, Philosophy, Imagination

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• We have learned so well how to absorb novelty that receptivity itself has turned into a kind of tradition- "the tradition of the new." Yesterdays avant-garde experiment is today's chic and tomorrows cliche.

  Richard Hofstadter

  Yesterday, Avant Garde, Today

  Richard Hofstadter (2012). “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life”, p.418, Vintage

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• People talk about love and it seems like a cliche but it's a real thing - the more love we spread around the world the more it's going to change lives.

  Ben Vereen

  Real, Life Changing, People

  "Ben Vereen’s Remarkable Journey Of Love And Loss". Interview with Laura Rowley, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2012.

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• Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come up with a folk saying that captures the insight in a kind of wash. The intuition may be real and ripe, fresh with possibilities, but the folk saying is guaranteed to be a cliche, stale and self-contained.

  Anne Lamott

  Real, Self, People

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.113, Anchor

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• A cliche is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint.

  Janet Fitch

  Coins, Too Much, Language

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• Wold domination is exhausting and cliche. People ought to just focus on being individual responsible citizens of the earth instead of assholes.

  Rachel Cohn

  People, Focus, Citizens

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.75, Egmont UK

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• It's a cliche, but Americans are puritanical. In their movies, they are scared of sex, but they overindulge in violence. I could have cut a G-rated version of 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' that would have pleased the American ratings board, but it would have been five minutes long.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Sex, Cutting, Long

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• So you are a vampire." "I most certainly am not." He looked annoyed. "That's such a common phrase, such a cliche, and so unflattering. I suppose you believe in werewolves and aliens too. I blame television.

  Margaret Stohl

  Believe, Annoyed, Vampire

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