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• I've always thought that comedy was just another dramatic expression. I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the generic distinction between comedy and drama. There's a lot of bullshit drama that leaves you totally cold. And there's a lot of wasted comedy time too. But when you get something honest, it doesn't matter what label you give it.

  Harold Ramis

  Drama, Expression, Giving

  "Harold Ramis, Seeker" by Ray Pride, newcityfilm.com. February 24, 2014.

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• A couple of years ago, a Republican committee staff director told me candidly (and proudly) what the method was to all this obstruction and disruption. Should Republicans succeed in obstructing the Senate from doing its job, it would further lower Congress’s generic favorability rating among the American people. By sabotaging the reputation of an institution of government, the party that is programmatically against government would come out the relative winner.

  Mike Lofgren

  Jobs, Couple, Party

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• Clay can be a metaphor for many things. I made it a metaphor for flesh and earth, and these are two kinds of generic givens of life, if you look at it poetically, biblically, the idea of the life of beings, of man, being transitory, the earth abides-ashes to ashes, dust to dust-man returns to earth, grows out of earth like a flower, wilts, goes back to the earth... We are frail, transitory creatures with aspirations of immortality, conscious of our inevitable death, and we have to deal with it somehow.

  Stephen De Staebler

  Flower, Men, Dust

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• Beauty is not generic. Quite often, the thing that makes you memorable is the thing that makes you different.

  Laura Mercier

  Memorable, Different

  Laura Mercier (2010). “The New Beauty Secrets: Your Ultimate Guide to a Flawless Face”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Pornography is to sex what McDonalds is to food. A plasticized, generic version of the real thing.

  Gail Dines

  Sex, Real, Mcdonalds

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• Certainly the caffeine in coffee, whether it's Starbucks or generic coffee, is somewhat of a stimulant. But if you drink it in moderation, which I think four or five cups a day is, you're fine.

  Howard Schultz

  Coffee, Thinking, Four

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• When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.

  Rob Zombie

  Views, People, Trying

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• The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic, TV-ad-for-bath-oil way.

  Lisa Schwarzbaum

  Book, Oil, Baths

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• The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic, TV-ad-for-bath-oil way. Dakota Johnson, who plays the virgin English-literature major Anastasia Steele, and Jamie Dornan, who plays Christian Grey, the wildly rich and sexually particular business titan who wants Miss Steele in his playroom, are exceedingly attractive actors with enviably supple bodies well suited to nakedness. And really, under the circumstances, movable parts matter more than acting skills.

  Lisa Schwarzbaum

  Christian, Book, Play

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• I want to avoid becoming too styled, too ‘done’ and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else. They start out with something individual about them, but it gets lost.

  Emma Watson

  Careers, People, Done

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• We dwell amid pinheaded weasels who know only timid, the generic and the abacus.

  Danny Baker

  Abacus, Weasels, Knows

  "Axed Danny Baker delivers on-air rant at his BBC London bosses" by John Plunkett, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2012.

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• The piled-up dead of political violence are a generic staple of our information diet these days, and according to the generic report all massacres are created equal: the dead are innocent, the killers monstrous, the surrounding politics insane or nonexistent...The anonymous dead and their anonymous killers become their own context. The horror becomes absurd.

  Philip Gourevitch

  Political, Insane, Information

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• Most of the bad taste I've been accused of has been generic bad taste; it's been making fun of an idea as opposed to a person.

  John Cleese

  Fun, Ideas, Taste

  "Ross and Brand were astoundingly tasteless". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2008.

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• But then you hear that he can't hear you, you see that he can't see you. You are not here--and you haven't even died yet. You see yourself through his eyes, as The Generic Woman, the skirted symbol on the ladies' room door.

  Melissa Bank

  Eye, Doors, Rooms

  Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.151, Penguin

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• money does not guarantee happiness or peace of mind, it can take your mind off things, distract you, but it can't replace the generic stuff a person needs!

  Terry McMillan

  Mind, Doe, Needs

  Terry McMillan (2002). “A Day Late and a Dollar Short”, p.52, Penguin

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• Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Lying, Humanity, Individuality

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• It's funny, my agent came up to us and said, "That line, when Nicholas says, 'I'm gonna bust this thing wide open,' what film's that from?" I said, "I think it's from every film." It's just like you get into that kind of mode of generic dialogue, it's fun to do.

  Edgar Wright

  Fun, Thinking, Agents

  "Nick Frost, Simon Pegg, and Edgar Wright of Hot Fuzz". Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 18, 2007.

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• I'd like to work more, but I don't just want to do kind of generic characters. I want to do interesting characters, and I'd like to be cast against type.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  Character, Interesting, Want

  "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. October 17, 2013.

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• Just as TurboTax simplified much of the tax process, so has the colossally scary legal process been reduced to a kinder, gentler series of mouse clicks and 'Continue' buttons by LegalZoom, the online leader that has become so prominent in its market that it's practically a generic.

  Lynda Resnick

  Leader, Scary, Buttons

  "Satisfy Your Legal Needs Fast in This Zoom-Zoom World" by Lynda Resnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2009.

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• Then we started looking at story and what was making sense and what wasn't making sense, emotionally and thematically the intention that we had a year earlier when they were working on the script, did all that come across? It's all kind of generic things, but it's fascinating and it's weird - I haven't made that many films, but it's weird that every time you think you learn from your mistakes on your last film you have a slew of new mistakes and things that you learn.

  Bryan Burk

  Mistake, Thinking, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• Here in the United States, when the term "fascist" gets used, it`s either talking about other countries, ancient history or it`s used as a sort of insult, right, a sort of generic right wing epithet that people use to criticize politicians who are at most on the edge of mainstream American political thought.

  Rachel Maddow

  Country, Talking, Wings

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• NASA is an utterly fascinating place, and the fact that the buildings look so anonymous almost make it more fascinating. You walk by a generic office-park-looking building, and you have no idea what's going on inside.

  Moby

  Ideas, Office, Looks

  "Pop star Moby goes to space camp" by Richard Stenger, www.cnn.com. July 29, 2002.

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• If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough.

  Moby

  Architecture, Enough, Unrelenting

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• They came out in a dim, damp basement - a generic sort of place, full of moulding boxes. 'You take me to the nicest places,' Claire said, and sneezed.

  Rachel Caine

  Claire, Boxes, Said

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Carpe Corpus”, p.41, Allison & Busby

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• There are some political issues where mainstream press attention only hurts. We think about activism as being this generic model of consciousness-raising, then hopefully media attention, attraction of new people to your cause, building public support for your cause, then decision-makers reacting to that change in public opinion. That's true for some types of activism, but it is not true for all of them.

  Rachel Maddow

  Hurt, Thinking, Media

  "The Lenny Interview: Rachel Maddow". Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

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