Overused Quotes

• I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I was not poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still do not have a dime but I have a great vocabulary.

  Jules Feiffer

  Thinking, Vocabulary, Self

  1956 Cartoon caption.

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• I just feel like sometimes I'm a force to be dealt with. My talents are sometimes overused and also sometimes underused. It's not easy being me.

  Ben Affleck

  Talent, Being Me, Sometimes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You can't handle the truth!

  Jack Nicholson

  Movie, Memorable, Great Year

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• Soulmate" is an overused term, but a true soul connection is very rare, and very real.

  Hilary Duff

  Soulmate, Real, Soul Mate

  Hilary Duff (2012). “Devoted: An Elixir Novel”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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• Even if I had $200 million, I’m very wary of overusing CGI. I think it’s a great tool and it can be used really effectively, but I feel like it does tend to be overused and especially in sci-fi stuff.

  Rian Johnson

  Thinking, Doe, Tools

  "Rian Johnson, ‘Looper’ Director, On ‘Breaking Bad’ And The Problem With ‘Star Wars’". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 8, 2012.

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• I think what some people are doing with effects is starting to get silly. It's overused.

  Richard Donner

  Stupid, Silly, Thinking

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• I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white.

  Artur Davis

  Black And White, Thinking, Vocabulary

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• Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.

  Fritz Kreisler

  Genius, Half, World

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• I find the mantle of, she works hard for the money, or, she's overcome so many obstacles a bit overused.

  Marlee Matlin

  Hard Work, Overcoming, Obstacles

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• The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong - that's when adventure starts

  Yvon Chouinard

  Travel, Adventure, Patagonia

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• I'd like to change the depictions of life, love, and adventure under what's known as the typical, overused backdrop of Hollywood.

  Romany Malco

  Love Life, Adventure, Typical

  "Romany Malco Chats w/ S&A About “Think Like A Man,” Picking Projects, Black Cinema & More!". Interview with Vanessa Martinez, www.indiewire.com. May 7, 2012.

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• In England "The Day After," though unpopular with viewers, seems to have confirmed the average Englishman's mindless prejudice against Kansas. Shortly after the film portrayed that state being turned into an overused barbecue pit by nuclear weapons, support for British nuclear weapons rose a full percentage point.

  Emmett Tyrrell

  Average, Kansas, Rose

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• Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. Theyre all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. Theyre tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky.

  Andrew Bird

  Deception, Honest, Cliche

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• I think it tends to be overused and can be a little bit gimmicky. A lot of people are using 3-D now because they feel have they have to... that will come and go and the pictures that deserve to be in 3-D will continue to be. When it's done bad, it can make you carsick.

  Joe Johnston

  Thinking, People, Done

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• A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar grows dull and we no longer see, hear, or taste it.

  Anais Nin

  Hands, Identity, Coats

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• I feel a particular sense of responsibility when you're taking something from the magazine directly and putting it in video. You can't be too flat. You need to have personality. You can't just scream out to the viewer. You need to have a fresh take on something or have a new look or have an interesting style, or be so raw that it resonates and is authentic. I think authentic is a good word. It's overused, I know, but I think it comes across in the video medium. If you can make a video authentic, it comes across.

  Dawn Ostroff

  Responsibility, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: wwd.com

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• I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.

  Ted McGinley

  Hollywood, Genius, Way

  "Ted McGinley talks Happy Days, The West Wing, and being the "patron saint" of jumping the shark". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. May 15, 2012.

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• Steve McQueen is a genius. And I think that word is overused, but I think with Steve it's rightly used. He's a genius.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Thinking, Genius, Used

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• The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers.

  Jodi Picoult

  Writing, Mean, Example

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.357, Simon and Schuster

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• A few years back, even the most commercial pop could have some artistic value. Someone who liked underground music could appreciate Justin Timberlake, too. Now, I just don't get it. Production values are boring; songwriting has gotten worse - the choruses on a lot of popular hip-hop songs are especially bad. The rappers hit their flow in the verses, then when they try to sing, it's a mess. And just like the airbrush tool in Photoshop, Autotune is way overused. It's not a toy!

  Jorge Elbrecht

  Song, Rapper, Appreciate

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• All entertainment is an element of fantasy because you are seeing something that is not quite real. There is no such thing as reality TV. Reality TV would be to leave a camera on in front of someone's house. Just leave it on. Then whenever the person comes or goes walking the dog or getting groceries, that's what it would be like. Any time you make an edit, you've lost reality TV. You're either compressing time or extending. That's a term that's been overused and overexposed. I think it's fantasy movies that take the fantasy of movies even further.

  Bruce Campbell

  Dog, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.stumpedmagazine.com

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• I'm often asked how I define "success." It's an overused term, but I fundamentally view this elusive beast as a combination of two things - achievement and appreciation. One isn't enough:
  
  Achievement without appreciation makes you ambitious but miserable.
  Appreciation without achievement makes you unambitious but happy.

  Tim Ferriss

  Appreciation, Views, Two

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• I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

  Alan Rickman

  Writing, Character, Journey

  "Alan Rickman: Truly, deeply appealing". articles.latimes.com. November 20, 2011.

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• I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes a simple admixture — a weird yearning for death combined with a crushing sense of my own smallness and futility that presents as a fear of death. It’s maybe close to what people call dread or angst. But it’s not these things, quite. It’s more like wanting to die in order to escape the unbearable feeling of becoming aware that I’m small and weak and selfish and going without any doubt at all to die. It’s wanting to jump overboard.

  David Foster Wallace

  Crush, Selfish, Simple

  "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: An Essay". Book by David Foster Wallace, 1997.

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• Use lots of exclamation points. They love to be overused.

  Sark

  Exclamation Points, Use, Exclamation

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