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Tag Name "Cliches" (72)

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Cliches and stereotypes such as beatnik or hippie have been invented for the antitechnologists, the antisystem people, and will continue to be. But one does not convert individuals into mass people with the simple coining of a mass term.
Robert M. Pirsig
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Cliches are what make you understand something.
Matthew Vaughn
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Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.
Dick Schaap
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When told a script was full of old cliches: Let's have some new cliches.
Samuel Goldwyn
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It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
Stephen Fry
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This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak.
Sylvia Brownrigg
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New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves. All these cliches that, as an Englishman, I thought were from a bygone era or were a bit of poetic license with cop shows - the more you hang out with them, the more you realize how real that jargon is.
Theo James
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I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic way and you can't disentangle them. But when you actually live a cliche, it feels brand new, and you are unashamed.
Umberto Eco
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Football is a game of cliches, and I believe in every one of them.
Vince Lombardi
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Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.
William Safire
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First things first has always been my motto, mostly because it makes absolutely no sense - after all, if first things were second or third, they wouldn't be first things, would they? Still, cliches exist to comfort the feeble minded, not to provide any actual meaning.
Jeff Lindsay
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Funny, I'd forgotten that what comes to you when you take a psychedelic is not always a revelation of something new and startling you're more liable to find yourself reminded of simple things you know and forgot you knew - seeing them freshly - old, basic truths that long ago became cliches, so you stopped paying attention to them.
Ann Shulgin
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All the cliches are true about parenting. All I've ever wanted to do is be a father, but there's this existential mirror that's held up when you have a kid.
John Krasinski
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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
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Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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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
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I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite
Josh Lucas
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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
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The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer does not respect the scene he is trying to dramatize enough to fashion it through precise prose and imaginative imagery. From the book Dare to be a Great Writer: 329 Keys to Powerful Fiction by
Leonard Bishop
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Carelessness is not fatal to journalism, nor are cliches, for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can seldom be read more than once a journalist has to accept the fact that his work, by its very todayness, is excluded from any share in tomorrow.
Cyril Connolly
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One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.
Matt Taibbi
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Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.
Daryl Hall
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You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.
Matthew Vaughn
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There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from.
David Twohy
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