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• Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.

  Miuccia Prada

  Fashion, Tears, Want

  "An improbable conversation: new Met exhibition attempts to mix and match Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada". Interview with Grace-Yvette Gemmell, www.politico.com. May 11, 2012.

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• I love my kids, and the moments I have with them, and it's kind of weird, it's such an age old cliche, but the way that my sons, the way they make me feel when I look at them, the way they say things, no one else would probably react to them, but it's a special thing for me.

  Michael Rapaport

  Kids, Son, Special

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• I know it's a cliche but I never wanted to be famous. I don't believe anybody wants to be famous.

  Jeremy Renner

  Believe, Want, Fame

  "The Bourne Legacy's Jeremy Renner, action hero at last" by Andrea Hubert, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 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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• My Lolita remarked: "You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own"; and it struck me, as my automaton knees went up and down, that I simply did not know a thing about my darling's mind and that quite possibly, behind the awful juvenile cliches, there was in her a garden and a twilight, and a palace gate - dim and adorable regions which happened to be lucidly and absolutely forbidden to me, in my polluted rags and miserable convulsions.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Twilight, Garden, Adorable

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.377, Vintage

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• How to avoid cliche at the root of conception? Practice sincerity. If we've come by ... material honestly, through our own personal experience or imagination, we may rightly claim it as our own. ... The way to make material your own is to look for it in yourself. ... It should be a story that only you can tell, as only you can tell it.

  Peter Selgin

  Writing, Practice, Roots

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• It's so cliche to say florals for spring. I really like a vintage-like dress that's floral. You can belt it; I like belts. I like wearing pretty dresses that are really comfortable, that you can spend the day in but also feel girly.

  Brittany Snow

  Girly, Spring, Vintage

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• I resist all established beliefs. My religion basically is to be immediate, to live in the now. It's an old cliche, I know, but it's mine. I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural. So far, at least. Not that I wouldn't like to. I mean, I want to believe. I do pray. I pray to something ... up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part of being human, I guess ... Do unto others: How much deeper into religion do we really need to go?

  Jack Nicholson

  Religious, Believe, Mean

  "What I've Learned: Jack Nicholson" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Try to accomplish things you have always dreamt of while you can. I know it sounds cliché, but the biggest lesson I have learned is that life is precious; enjoy it while it lasts.

  Lisa Ling

  Enjoy It While It Lasts, Trying, Sound

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

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• It's such a cliche thing to say. I want to choreograph, I want to direct, I want to act, I want to write music, I want to play music, I want to sing. For me, it's never-ending. I want to do it all, really.

  Derek Hough

  Writing, Play, Want

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• Everything that I've done has made me who I am today. You know, it's cliche, but it's true.

  Kristin Cavallari

  Who I Am, Done, Today

  "Kristin Cavallari Talks Wedding Plans, Baby Camden And Beyonce For HuffPost’s #nofilter". Interview with Leigh Blickley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2013.

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• I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order. The point is, I find the female roles out there very cliché. If we are limited to being only lovers or mothers, we are limiting ourselves.

  Connie Nielsen

  Mother, Order, Female

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

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• Every cliche is true, right? That's why they're cliches.

  W. S. Di Piero

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?

  Val Kilmer

  Mean, Thinking, Names

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• I'm a pretty cliché actor in that I hate watching myself on film.

  Hamish Linklater

  Hate, Actors, Film

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

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• That’s the problem with heartbreak, to you it’s like an atomic bomb but to the world it’s just a cliche because in the end we all have the same experience.

  Olivia

  Bombs, World, Problem

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• This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail to experience a destructive impulse in her presence?

  Mary McCarthy

  Intelligent, Idols, Feet

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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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• 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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• 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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• Often times, music is used to evoke an emotion and it's become a cliche, so I don't want to do that, and actually what I do, is that emotional intensity that has developed throughout the film, I allow it to get released by having that music at the end with the credits.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Emotional, Credit, Want

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• There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.

  Hari Kunzru

  Flower, Book, Hands

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• Sometimes you can hear them talk, other times you can't. All the same old cliches, is that a woman or a man?

  Bob Seger

  Men, Sometimes, Sexually

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