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Tag Name "Cliche" (227)

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Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.
Dick Schaap
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If you think of exercise as a 60-minute commitment 3 times a week at the gym, you're missing the point completely. If you think that going on a diet has something to do with nutrition, you don't see the forest through the trees. It is a lifestyle. I know it sounds cliche, but you have to find things you love to do.
Brett Hoebel
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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
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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
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A fool and his money are soon partying.
Steven Wright
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Raw, naked truth exchanged between the black man and the white man is what a whole lot more of is needed in this country - to clear the air of the racial mirages, cliches, and lies that this country's very atmosphere has been filled with for four hundred years.
Alex Haley
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Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad.
Aravind Adiga
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I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.
Moby
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At the risk of sounding too cliche, I found a really fantastic church. That is what keeps me grounded.
Chyler Leigh
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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
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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
H. L. Mencken
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May we all beware lest our innovative ideas appear very cliche before we even blink.
David Livermore
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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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Time-honoured insights are often trivialised as cliches.
Densey Clyne
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It's become almost a cliche at this point that movies in the general sense are the place you go for superheroes and explosions and TV is where you go for actual storytelling.
Alan Sepinwall
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Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's first and most important role models.
Lee Haney
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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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In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
Newt Gingrich
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It's likely that taboo words are stored in the right hemisphere of the brain. Massive left hemisphere strokes or the entire surgical removal of the left hemisphere can leave people with no articulate speech other than the ability to swear, spout cliches and song lyrics.
Steven Pinker
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I write as clearly as I am able to. I sometimes tackle ideas and notions that are relatively complex, and it is very difficult to be sure that I am conveying them in the best way. Anyone who goes beyond cliche phrases and cliche ideas will have this trouble.
R. A. Lafferty
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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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Heres the thing: If youre taking roles that arent intimidating you, and I think this is a cliche that a lot of actors say, but if its not intimidating you, then why are you doing it?
Matt Lauria
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You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.
Matthew Vaughn
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When you're a writer, you want to try to avoid cliches. Unfortunately, when you're writing about marriage or family, all cliches seem to apply.
Dan Savage
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