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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

Topics: Becomes Book Cliches Danger Interesting Invent More Real Rules Think Very You Your I Think

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The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

~Alan Perlis

Topics: Always Cliches Computing Field Need New

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I'm terrified of cliches.

~Anthony Doerr

Topics: Cliches Terrified

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Learning to face reality, refusing refuge in cliches and lies, fighting to find a way out - that's what 'Rehab' is about.

~Antonia Bird

Topics: About Cliches Face Face Reality Fighting Find Learning Lies Out Reality Refuge Refusing Rehab Way

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The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.

~Ben Stiller

Topics: Cliches Find Generic Most Plot You

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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

Topics: Am Cliches Composition Everything Experimental Experimenting Generic Less Like Music Noise People Pop Say Song Than Think Unknown Until Whether Who You I Think I Am

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Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.

~Brad Holland

Topics: Agree Art Cliches Expresses Political Propaganda Unlike Which You

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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.

~Brad Holland

Topics: About Artists Cliches Culture Cultures Eager Embrace Know Never Nothing Often Own Understood Who Why

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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

Topics: Around Cliches Driven He Just Laugh Literally Man Max Myth Overnight Son Terrible True Turned Two Young Young Man

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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

Topics: About Because Cliches Done Keep Learned Love Magazine Many Modern Plots Poems Slang Small Spring Style Think Worked Write Writers Writing Written

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