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• My Lolita remarked: "You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own"; and it struck me, as my automaton knees went up and down, that I simply did not know a thing about my darling's mind and that quite possibly, behind the awful juvenile cliches, there was in her a garden and a twilight, and a palace gate - dim and adorable regions which happened to be lucidly and absolutely forbidden to me, in my polluted rags and miserable convulsions.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Twilight, Garden, Adorable

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.377, Vintage

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• I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?

  Val Kilmer

  Mean, Thinking, Names

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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

  Flower, Book, Hands

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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

  Men, Sometimes, Sexually

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• It seems like a cliche, but you do grow up a lot faster when you travel a lot, go through things like this interview, spend time away from home and hang around with other actors. It's inevitable that you're not going to have a so-called normal childhood.

  Matt Dillon

  Growing Up, Home, Childhood

  "Matt Dillon Meets Fame... Diffidently". The Boston Globe, November 03, 1983.

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• The enterprise of describing something in language that has never been described before is a very difficult thing to do. When you decide to do away with old cliches or old phraseologies, and to come up with a new way of saying something, it's extremely difficult.

  Gao Xingjian

  Way, Language, Come Up

  "A Conversation with Gao Xingjian". Interview with David Der-Wei Wang, asiasociety.org.

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• My experience is that journalists report on the nearest-cliche algorithm, which is extremely uninformative because there aren't many cliches, the truth is often quite distant from any cliche, and the only thing you can infer about the actual event was that this was the closest cliche. It is simply not possible to appreciate the sheer awfulness of mainstream media reporting until someone has actually reported on you. It is so much worse than you think.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Thinking, Media, Appreciate

  Comment to the article "Predictible Fakers" by Robin Hanson, www.overcomingbias.com. January 20, 2009.

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• As for the Jews, their explanation of anti-Semitism is more characteristic yet. In addition to the usual cliche, "with hatred and savagery" - naturally with no motive, they do not care to discuss motives - according to them, anti-Semitism is a madness, an intellectual degeneration, an affliction of the spirit.

  A. C. Cuza

  Hatred, Intellectual, Usual

  "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.

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• I'm sick of the old cliches. Bring me some new cliches.

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.

  Sick, Hollywood, Film

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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

  Thinking, Roles, Actors

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• I never see my movies. When they're on television, I click them away. Hollywood created an image, and I long ago reconciled myself with it. I was the French cliche.

  Louis Jourdan

  Long Ago, Hollywood, Television

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true.

  Josephine de La Baume

  Thinking, Style, Irony

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• You are who you surround yourself with. I know that's such a cliche quote, but it's true.

  Selena Gomez

  Surround Yourself, Knows, Surround

  "Selena Gomez Dishes About Dating in Hollywood, What She Wants in a Guy and Her 21st Birthday Plans". Interview with Bruna Nessif, www.eonline.com. July 21, 2013.

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• It may be an old cliche, but I think true love will last; it has no end. But finding the right person is a very difficult thing.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Thinking, May, Lasts

  ""Even now I have to pinch myself we are together": Bruce Forsyth on 30 years of wedded bliss". www.mirror.co.uk. January 12, 2013.

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• All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood - all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience.

  Penelope Cruz

  Beautiful, Baby, Motherhood

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• It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.

  Kenny Chesney

  Sports, School, Church

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• I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.

  Dana Carvey

  Brother, Sibling, Mean

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• If you do something that's really original, you discover why everybody else does it the other way, usually. There's a reason cliches exist, 'cause they work.

  Doug Liman

  Doe, Way, Causes

  "Director Doug Liman Talks MTV’s I JUST WANT MY PANTS BACK, ALL YOU NEED IS KILL and EVEREST". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 1, 2012.

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• Thinking about your training should put a smile on your face. As cliche as it sounds, you are worth all the time and energy you've put in. Unleash your emotions with a cheer, or even a signature roar, after a tough workout.

  Summer Sanders

  Workout, Cheer, Thinking About You

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• Cliche refers to words, commonplace to ideas. Cliche describes the form or the letter, commonplace the substance or spirit. To confuse them is to confuse the thought with the expression of the thought. The cliche is immediately perceivable; the commonplace very often escapes notice if decked out in original dress. There are few examples, in any literature, of new ideas expressed in original form. The most critical mind must often be content with one or the other of these pleasures, only too happy when it is not deprived of both at once, which is not too rarely the case.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Often Is, Expression, Ideas

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• Sometimes there's truth in old cliches. There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance there will be no justice.

  Arundhati Roy

  Peace, Real, Justice

  "Peace and the new corporate liberation theology". Arundhati Roy's speech at the Sydney Peace Prize Lecture, sydney.edu.au. November 4, 2004.

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• Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all of men's relationships with women.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Feminism, Ancient

  "Sex, Art and American Culture: New Essays". Book by Camille Paglia, 1992.

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• I just want to serve people. I know it sounds like a simple cliche.

  Tim Kaine

  Simple, People, Sound

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• I know it's a cliche but I never wanted to be famous. I don't believe anybody wants to be famous.

  Jeremy Renner

  Believe, Want, Fame

  "The Bourne Legacy's Jeremy Renner, action hero at last" by Andrea Hubert, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2012.

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• I love my kids, and the moments I have with them, and it's kind of weird, it's such an age old cliche, but the way that my sons, the way they make me feel when I look at them, the way they say things, no one else would probably react to them, but it's a special thing for me.

  Michael Rapaport

  Kids, Son, Special

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