What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.
Adrian Lyne
The computing field is always in need of new cliches.
Alan Perlis
When I started out in wrestling, you have to start somewhere and you either start being the good guy or the bad guy. There is several cliches that follow that.
Aleister Black
Instinct is still important, but now I can easily identify problems like cliches and mixed metaphors, and I have a broader palette to work off of.
Amanda Shires
I try my best to not just avoid cliches but to write with some meaning.
I'm terrified of cliches.
Anthony Doerr
Learning to face reality, refusing refuge in cliches and lies, fighting to find a way out - that's what 'Rehab' is about.
Antonia Bird
The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
Ben Stiller
I think everything's experimental whether you like it or not. I think that people who do generic pop are experimenting with cliches. It's no less than I am experimenting with noise or unknown music - until you say, 'This is my song, or this is my composition' - it's all experimental, whether you like it or not.
Bill Laswell
Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.
Brad Holland
I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about.
The cliches are all true! My son Max has just turned two, and he's literally turned into this driven young man overnight! The terrible twos are not a myth, but he's such a laugh to be around.
Burn Gorman
When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can't write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the 'i's' small.
Charles Bukowski
I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.
Charles Olson
Sometimes you watch stuff and it's like, oh God - it's the obvious cliches of the genre. You've got to do better.
Charlie Heaton
Too many new writers dress up old cliches.
Christopher Fowler
Most of my cliches aren't original.
Chuck Knox
I'm a gay man, living an out life for a long time, and it's tiring and anger-making to hear people continue to spit out the same old dreary cliches about the fact that gay men are doing something unnatural, and there'll be a price to pay when the Rapture happens.
Clive Barker
I take things that are worn out through overuse, that have become cliches - like the shed, a traditional place of rest and retreat - and I give them a more incandescent future.
Cornelia Parker
Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.
Daryl Hall
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.
I used to regard genres as being embedded in cliches, and I always felt funny about the need we have to label things. But I'm happy to think of 'Starred Up' as a prison drama, although we tried to smuggle in some elements of family drama in there.
There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from.
People forget that keeping a band together is hard; man, it's really hard. All the cliches apply about living in each other's pockets; of it being a relationship, a marriage, a family.
I did start out quiet, and I found out you can change a person's life by simply saying, 'Hey,' or, 'How was your day?' Not everybody gets that opportunity with the way society views you or how you look or the way you dress or how you interact. You hear the weird cliches: socially awkward. I think we're all socially awkward.
There's something a bit embarrassing about saying you're a magician. It immediately suggests all these horrendous cliches, let alone that you're a grown-up doing a child's job.
Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose.
I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.
Unfortunately, all the cliches we see about Hollywood are true.
I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches.
In 'Windtalkers,' the director John Woo is meticulous in melding his own intimate style into the cliches of a large-scale war movie, paying homage to all the tired conventions of the genre. But it's an honor that these cliches don't deserve.
I can speak in cliches and say how much the Israel national team means to us, but we have to prove that on the pitch.
The challenge in daytime in particular, I think, is to go against all the traditional cliches of daytime and try to make it real.
I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.
I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.
I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true.
My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director.
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I'm a realist.
The goal with 'Alpha' was to run towards the cliches and then to break through them, and that doesn't change depending on the medium.
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.
Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
Cliches are cliches because they are true.
Morals always sound like cliches, but usually cliches are based on things that are ultimate truths. Be grateful for what you have; appreciate what's right there in front of you.
Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.
I'm aware of cliches and I'm aware of experiments that have been done and I'm aware of a kind of deadness to a lot of realism both in the language and in the structure of a book.
There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish.
I'm trying to go beyond the traditional cliches of an African safari.
'Avatar' is the greatest, most comprehensive collection of movie cliches ever assembled, but it's put together in a brand new way with a new technology, and tremendous imagination, making it a true epic and a kind of a milestone.
If you live in a democracy, it's very tiring to be always surrounded by great and high abstract generalisations which are, in fact, the most banal and naive cliches dug out of second-rate movements of the late 19th century.
