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• I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental. The difference is often not great, but it is crucial.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Differences, Trying, Form

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• I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rugged. People like to put actors in boxes.

  Eva Green

  Character, Simple, Play

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• A lot of people that make films say, 'We need this kind of character. Who's done it before? Get them to do it again.' That is exactly what actors are pushing against. It's kind of a cliche to talk about being stereotyped in that way, but it happens.

  John C. Reilly

  Character, People, Needs

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It sounds like a cliche but there are no shorts cuts. You have to be very dedicated and challenge yourself everyday to be better.

  Casey Stoney

  Cutting, Challenges, Everyday

  "Casey Stoney: England defender on Messi, Ronaldo and Arsenal". Twitter Q&A, www.bbc.com. March 8, 2016.

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• On the one hand, rock is so predictable, but at the same time, the basic idea that an artist can cut through everything and make something that they believe in or make something that they love or speaks to them personally, that it can cut through the bullshit. But at the same time, the cliches of sincerity can kill that.

  Casey Spooner

  Believe, Cutting, Artist

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Someone gave me Roman Candle from Cavity Search when it came out. I was just starting to do A&R in the record business, and I remember being in my Volvo 240 in Silverlake, which is every bit the cliche it sounds like, sitting in front of my house playing the songs over and over again. It was the punkest record I had heard in so long.

  Luke Wood

  Song, Long, House

  "Keep the Things You Forgot: An Elliott Smith Oral History" by Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. October 21, 2013.

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• It's been reinforced to me, and it's a little cliche, but I've learned that you can't make a movie that even works, much less that's good, without really good writing and really good acting. That lesson has led me to not be distracted, so much, by the other stuff going on in filmmaking and to focus on the essence of a story, and the words and the events and the way that those are interpreted by the actors. That philosophy has taken me to a place that I really like.

  Ben Affleck

  Philosophy, Taken, Writing

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 8, 2012.

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• There are lots of things that you can go down the list and say, "Oh, these are cliches, we've seen this before, just hits every checkpoint." All of that takes a secondary status for me if I'm reading something and I just really like the characters.

  Paul Rudd

  Reading, Character, Lists

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I know this might sound a little cliche but, I feel like everybody is searching for the same thing, and that is truth. I think that's sort of the journey to define that which is most inspirational. Even in acting, when I watch an actor who I find to be so truthful in their craft, or a musician who gets up there and sings so truthfully - I like that.

  Tyler Blackburn

  Journey, Thinking, Acting

  "Interview with Tyler Blackburn from Pretty Little Liars". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• What is a change-maker? What has Hillary Clinton changed? It is filled with all the cliches that New Agers and leftists glom on to, like "common sense gun control legislation." But it never was defined.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Gun, Common Sense, Clinton

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I guess it's a bit cliché, but as an actor, I really admire good writing. There are a lot of great ideas out there, but it's the execution that really makes it work.

  Mike Colter

  Writing, Ideas, Actors

  "Mike Colter: On Meditation, Good Writing, and Passion Projects". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Both my best and worst memories are of my time in Nicaragua. The experience as a whole was totally redeeming and amazing. It sounds so cliche, but I don't care because I'm saying that from the heart. I stayed with a host family and went back to the same kind of rural farming village outside of Managua.

  Eden Sher

  Memories, Heart, Nicaragua

  "New York tops the list for young actress". Interview with Jae-Ha Kim, www.chicagotribune.com. May 17, 2011.

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• I now consider myself quite religious and spiritual although that sounds like a terrible cliche.

  Sally Quinn

  Spiritual, Religious, Sound

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I know it sounds cliche but I believe in an essential way, it's very true that being a Christian is having a relationship with God through Christ.

  Greg Laurie

  Christian, Believe, Way

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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