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• Dancing is still, for me, one of those things that no matter when I do it and it sounds corny and cliche, but time stands still. I could literally dance for hours and hours on end and not realize that I've been dancing for hours and hours on end. In the right setting, I could literally dance all day and have a blast. It seems like one moment to me. There's nothing else going on, and it's the ultimate release.

  Stephen Boss

  Dancing, Realizing, Corny

  Source: hollywoodlife.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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  Father, Kids, Mirrors

  "John Krasinski Will Take a Photo with You, but Here's Where He Draws the Line". Interview with Mehera Bonner, www.marieclaire.com. August 24, 2016.

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• It's a cliche that filmmaking is a team sport. However, let me say just say it again: filmmaking is a team sport.

  Ramona S. Diaz

  Sports, Team, Filmmaking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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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

  Superhero, Tvs, Places You Go

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Puppets and dolls are the gateways between human beings and objects. There are tons of cliches to spout about puppetry and animism, the primacy of the object, attacking anthropocentric worldviews, etc, and while there were always puppets around, I started working with them to deal with the times I knew I wouldn't be able to collaborate with other humans, to have a team.

  Kalan Sherrard

  Team, Worldview

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• My vision of being a professional, as opposed to being a football player before, has completely changed. Being a pro is doing everything right all the time. It sounds cliche, but if you apply that to strength training, if you apply that to a lot of body work, if you apply that to making good decisions, all the work I did on myself and all the time I spent with therapists and doctors and family, that was my mantra: "Do it right all the time." It started to build momentum, and it started to build up steam. Once I got the opportunity to come back and play, I just kept using that and it helped.

  Richie Incognito

  Football, Opportunity, Player

  Source: m.bleacherreport.com

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• I'm so tired of the same old cliche costumes. When people dress up as animals, they always go as, like, lions and tigers and dogs. You know, why don't you try something different? Dress up like a lemur.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Dog, Tired, Animal

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think all the simple things can and do still work - holding your child's hand while walking across the street will do it. But we can hardly hear it for all the noise which has turned love into a cliche, and most people can't even hear John Lennon's "All You Need Is Love" anymore without wincing.

  Dan Simmons

  Simple, Thinking, People

  Source: bookpage.com

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• I think the trick of being a writer is to basically put your cards out there all the time and be willing to be as in the dark about what happens next as your reader would be at that time. And then you can really surprise yourself. There's that cliche, "No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader!"

  George Saunders

  Dark, Thinking, Surprise

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• [Feminists think difference in men and women] is all social. It is all about social cliches and pressures, that if you just leave boys and girls alone they're gonna grow up and be identical. They're gonna be the same in the way they look at life, the way they find things interesting. Nothing could be further from the truth.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Girl, Growing Up, Men

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I'm not defending the Trump vote. I think they're making a bad choice. But I'm saying the bad choice isn't one out of pure ignorance, and I think it's too easy. And it plays into cliches about, you know, elitist liberals to say, oh, these Trump voters - if they knew more, they would do better. And it's like, well, maybe they would do better if we had a legitimate set of policies in place that doesn't encourage the kind of gross radicalization that has happened under the Trump candidacy. So for me, it's all about developing a richer conversation.

  Marc Lamont Hill

  Ignorance, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I kinda feel like everything comes full circle in life, even though that's a cliche.

  Iggy Pop

  Circles, Full Circle, Feels

  Source: www.rollingstone.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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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

  Country, Lying, Men

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