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When I look back I can't believe how my parents managed, but the cliche is true. We didn't have money, but we were rich in so many other ways. — Joaquin Phoenix

Can a person really love someone so deeply after only a week? Hello? Cliche much for insta-love? — Christy Pastore

All love as all life is cliche until you look beyond the obvious, until you look for what's hidden within what's displayed. — Chloe Thurlow

If someone thinks that peace and love are just a cliche that must have been left behind in the 60s, that's a problem. Peace and love are eternal. — John Lennon

It's a cliche, but true, that writing is intensely solitary and at times really lonely. I sit in one room and talk to squirrels and blue jays all day. — Douglas Coupland

That quest for something pretty. A cheat. A cliche. Flowers and Christmas lights, it's what we're programmed to love. — Chuck Palahniuk

This is a cliche, but in fiction, I feel it is easier for me to get to some sort of truth, some kind of more honest writing. — Miriam Toews

How could someone so cool, so different be such a cliche when it came to love? — Terence Blacker

Frantically, he scans the room, settling on the closet.
Brayden sighs, 'Seriously, dude? Must we live the cliche?' — Lynn Kelling

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

I did art; I made furniture. I didn't want to be a cliche - the Beatle's son who became a musician. — James McCartney

Emily Dickinson , in my opinion, is the perfect (although admittedly slightly cliche) poet for lonely fat girls. — Suzanne Supplee

Every cliche about kids is true; they grow up so quickly, you blink and they're gone, and you have to spend the time with them now. But that's a joy. — Liam Neeson

Movie Cliche #12: The Moral. A character states the obvious and everybody gets the point. — Connie Willis

He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion. — Harold Macmillan

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain. — Kanye West

Antiquite . en tout ce qui s'y rapporte: Est poncif, embe tant! etc. Antiquity. And everything to do with it, cliche d and boring. — Gustave Flaubert

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

The challenge, really, on any new film is to try to avoid that and achieve a few moments that aren't cliche. — Adrian Lyne

Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's first and most important role models. — Lee Haney

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

The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words. — George Steiner

The cliche that sea dry up and rocks rot away, but the heart never changes is nothing but a beautiful fantasy. — Mo Yan

So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing. — Matthew Vaughn

I am against the whole cliche of the moment. — Herman Kahn

She was the one, I decided, who would guide me into the vortex of the cliche. — Don DeLillo

I have never been beautiful in cliche terms. — Sally Field

This is so cliche, but my beauty icon would have to be Angelina Jolie. She looks like she wears natural makeup, but she's still beautiful. — Tila Tequila

I like guys with a nice smile. I know it's cliche, but it's so true! I like a guy with a nice smile and nice eyes. — Rebecca Black

Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches. — Eugene Ionesco

Time-honoured insights are often trivialised as cliches. — Densey Clyne

Forgive the cliche, but friends are truly the family you choose. — Jen Lancaster

Whoever originated the cliche that money is the root of all evil knew hardly anything about the nature of evil and very little about human beings. — Eric Hoffer

Nowadays filmmakers tend to recycle the same cliches over and over again. — Tom Hooper

When not eating, I like shopping; although I'm afraid I've become a bit of a cliche. — Arabella Weir

Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind. — Terence McKenna

I know that there's a customary cliche about librarians being what crass people might call "hard-asses". — Leah Thomas

I know it's a cliche, but I didn't want to work in an office. — Paul O'Grady

The cliche is dead poetry. — Gerald Brenan

It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along. — Nathan Lane

It's long been a cliche in Washington that if you hang a lamb chop in your window, guests will come. — Suzanne Fields

To me the most important thing is a good story, though I know how cliche that sounds. — Josh Trank

Wold domination is exhausting and cliche. People ought to just focus on being individual responsible citizens of the earth instead of assholes. — Rachel Cohn

Don't avoid the cliches - they are cliches because they work! — George Lucas

The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down. — Jeanne Moreau

To know how to avoid the cliche, to know what tradition you are pushing forward, begins with knowing what that tradition is. — Blake Snyder

It's a cliche, but it's true that all the fun lies in baddies, grotesques and comic roles. — Mark Gatiss

I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche. — Beck

It's a cliche that the Senate is broken, and like most cliches, it's true. — George Packer

My favorite question is 'What do you do?' I'm like, 'I'm a walking cliche: I'm a model and an actress.' — Dree Hemingway

I hate to sound cliche, but I understand why people love to cook. It's fun! — Jacob Young

All plots are cliche. — Jincy Willett

What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box. — Walter Isaacson

I'm a pretty cliche actor in that I hate watching myself on film. — Hamish Linklater

The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true. — Patrick Stump

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The cliche in American politics is that one week is an eternity. — Christopher Buckley

I've always thought the expression 'passion project' was kind of a cliche until I started working on 'Big Shot' for 'ESPN.' — Kevin Connolly

I feel like a cliche. — Jonathan Carroll

There is an enduring freshness in what remains strange and obscure which the cliches of greatness can only evoke nostalgia for. — Bauvard

Use it or lose it is a cliche because it's true. — Julian Cope

(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion. — Harold Macmillan

Timing is everything. That's a cliche. Now. If I'd said that a long time ago, I'd have been original. — Demetri Martin

I'm constantly trying to strip away layers of perceived thought or cliche. — Deborah Eisenberg

It's sort of cliche, but when you're playing drunk, your character is trying to appear sober. — Corey Stoll

I'm very much aware of the dangers of becoming a cliche. Mr. Anger, someone who gets meaner, angrier on record. — Trent Reznor

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal. — John Lennon

The personal appropriation of cliches is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism. — Serge Daney

To the young, cliches seem freshly minted. — Bel Kaufman

One of the biggest obstacles to making a start on climate change is that it has become a cliche before it has even been understood — Tim Flannery

I hate the cliche of 'just have fun,' but what I've seen in today's sports, especially with parents, is they put so much pressure on the kids. — Hope Solo

Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression. — Robert McKee

His fidelity to the cliche transcended the necessity to communicate. — China Mieville

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me. — John Hawkes

Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie. — Patrick Kavanagh

Any fiction writer who assumes that a character is typical no doubt runs the risk of stumbling into cliche and stereotype. — Alice McDermott

Mi casa es su casa. Literally. I'm pretty sure your dad owns it. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The biggest cliche in photography is sunrise and sunset. — Catherine Opie

May we all beware lest our innovative ideas appear very cliche before we even blink. — David Livermore

I know it's a cliche, but I've been happy to go to work every day. — Jennifer Finnigan

I know it sounds stupid and cliche, but I just want to get better. I want to keep improving. — Chase Utley

It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up. — Michael Pitt

I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche. — Adele

Redeeming subjects from cliche is its own pleasure and privilege. — Leslie Jamison

One cliche attached to bookish people is that they are lonely, but for me books were my way out of being lonely. — Matt Haig

The more you give, the more you get - it's a cliche, but it's really true. — Christie Brinkley

I have the utmost respect for synthesizers - Soft Cell, early Depeche Mode. But that's become a cliche for the '80s. — Ariel Rechtshaid

It's not the early bird that gets the worm, it's the one who knows to go outside after a rainstorm. — James Schannep

It is almost a cliche to hear people talking about 'slowing down' but it is true. I have slowed down and through slowing, I see so much more. — Cecelia Ahern

It was cliche, he knew, but he meant it classic. — S.E. Hinton

The road is a lonely place, and that sounds like a cliche, you know, like what is my life? — Artie Lange

I know it's an artistic cliche, but every time I look at my past work, I want to projectile vomit. — Rich Burlew

The tradition of the new. Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche. — Richard Hofstadter

It's a cliche, and in a way it's a conservative idea about fiction, but I did learn the hard way that plot does need to dictate the story. — Rachel Kushner

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

I did the rock 'n roll-pop cliche of getting burnt out. I'm not the first person that happened to, and I'm sure I won't be the last. — Robbie Williams

If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society. — Lewis Thomas

'Hope and change' has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American could hope for change from what God has blessed. — Billy Graham

This life is quite a rave- few heartaches, some long waits, altering faiths & breaking cliches! — Jasleen Kaur Gumber

Contrary to the cliche', genuinely nice guys most often finish first or very near it. — Steve Forbes