Cliche Quotes - Page 10

• One of the problems of this genre is that there are cliches everywhere, and you've got to be careful and watch out. Our rule with cliches is to either gently acknowledge them and make fun of them, or do something else. Milady is, in one sense, a villain because she does bad things.

  Adrian Hodges

  Fun, Genre Is, Doe

  Source: collider.com

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• I always believe that if you feel good and look happy, you're always going to be beautiful. My one actual beauty trick is pretty cliche: Never, ever go to bed with your makeup on.

  Joyce Giraud

  Beautiful, Believe, Makeup

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• I know it's an artistic cliche, but every time I look at my past work, I want to projectile vomit.

  Rich Burlew

  Past, Looks, Want

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• Look, I've got incredible pride for my family. I've absolutely fallen into that cliche of a dad who could just happily talk about my daughter endlessly.

  Christian Bale

  Mother, Daughter, Dad

  "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.

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• When told a script was full of old cliches: Let's have some new cliches.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Scripts

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• For years, we've been bludgeoned with the cliche "information is power." But information isn't power. After all, who's got the most information in your neighborhood? Librarians. And they're famous for having no power at all. And who has the most power in your community? Politicians. And they're notorious for being ill-informed.

  Clifford Stoll

  Information Is Power, Years, Community

  Clifford Stoll (1999). “High-tech Heretic: Why Computers Don't Belong in the Classroom and Other Reflections by a Computer Contrarian”, Doubleday Books

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• My whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche...it's one of the reasons a lot of my generation are always on the fence about things. They're afraid to commit to anything for fear of seeming like a cliche. They're afraid to commit to their lives because they see so much of the world as a cliche.

  Beck

  Generations, World, Reason

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• It's become a cliche to think of marriage as a disaster area and a war zone. Although political shows are really popular now, I think what sets this apart is this marriage and this family dynamic, and this way of revealing that people in positions of power or who have public careers are also real people. They have children and lives, and they have to deal with all of the things that everybody else does.

  Tim Daly

  Children, Real, War

  Source: collider.com

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• My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry.

  Paul Taylor

  Sensual, Sound, Smooth

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• Nowadays filmmakers tend to recycle the same cliches over and over again.

  Tom Hooper

  Filmmaker

  "Oscar Watch Q &A: Tom Hooper Talks Long Road to King’s Speech". Interview with Anne Thompson, blogs.indiewire.com. November 22, 2010.

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• What I love to tell young kids is ultimately let your dreams evolve around your opportunities. You have to focus on always learning. It's cliche, but the reality of it is that if you take action and try and fail you're gonna learn a lot by the time you try it again, and you'll build a foundation of experience that's gonna be ultimately the rock that allows you to find success or follow your dreams.

  Rob Dyrdek

  Dream, Kids, Opportunity

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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

  Running, Fiction, Kind

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• Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression.

  Sarah Churchwell

  Struggle, Self, Expression

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• I do feel like the world is a better and happier place now that my son is here. That's so cliche, but it's true. I just have a new perspective; I'm more driven. Also, the thing that stands out to me is that I'm not as selfish. Before you have a child, you're doing everything for yourself. But now it's about what's best for him, and I'm enjoying that shift.

  Tia Mowry

  Children, Selfish, Son

  "Tia and Tamera Dish About Their TV Show, Motherhood, and Taking Over the World". Interview with Phoebe Robinson, www.glamour.com. July 14, 2013.

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• It's sort of cliche, but when you're playing drunk, your character is trying to appear sober.

  Corey Stoll

  Character, Drunk, Trying

  Source: deadline.com

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• I tell people, 'It's just like a cliche, but it's true: In Hollywood, dreams can come true.'

  Michael Clarke Duncan

  Dream, People, Hollywood

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• This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard to make a living as a writer. At that point, I was more interested in fiction writing.

  Hooman Majd

  Writing, College, Sound

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• Then there's the silliest of all cliches, 'on a pace for' 'Pace' is a figment of the mathematician's imagination.

  Leonard Koppett

  Imagination, Pace, Figments

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• That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one.

  David Bowie

  Years, Hell, Speed

  "St. David Bowie? Not yet, but faith leaders pay respects to dead rocker" by David Gibson, www.washingtonpost.com. January 11, 2016.

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• To paraphrase president Kennedy's inaugural, the torch has been passed to a new generation of cartoonists and they are doing really interesting stuff, taking the old cliches and breathing new life into them and inventing new ones. This doesn't mean the previous generation of which I'm a charter member isn't doing good stuff but this new material is invigorating everyone.

  Robert Mankoff

  Mean, Breathing, Interesting

  "Ask the Author Live: Robert Mankoff on the Cartoon Issue". The New Yorker Interview, www.newyorker.com. October 21, 2011.

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• I had started acting when I was 7, and I was always wrong. I would always get to the very end [of the audition], but I wasn't a perfect package of one thing. I wasn't a cliche, and it always worked against me. I wasn't pretty enough to play the popular girl, I wasn't mousy enough to be the mousy girl. Then there was a TV show that Toni Collette was starring in. And when a role to play a girl who was struggling with identity came, I thought: "Oh, this is what I was supposed to do. Everything's leading up to this moment." I was 18. I was like, "This is it." I didn't get it. And I was devastated.

  Brie Larson

  Girl, Struggle, Tv Shows

  "Jennifer Lawrence, Cate Blanchett and Six More Top Actresses on Pay Gap, Sex Scenes and the Price of Speaking Frankly: "There Is Always a Backlash"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 18, 2015.

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• The information glut has become a ruling cliche. As all resources - from energy to information - become more abundant, the presure of economic scarcity falls ever more heavily on one key residual, and that single shortage looms ever more stringent and controlling. The governing scarcity of the information economy is time: the shards of a second, the hours in a day, the years in a life, the latency of memory, the delay in aluminum wires, the time to market, the time to metastasis, the time to retirement.

  George Gilder

  Retirement, Memories, Fall

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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 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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• 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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