Zitat des Tages über Klischees / Cliches:
I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it.
The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.
Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.
'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.
It's likely that taboo words are stored in the right hemisphere of the brain. Massive left hemisphere strokes or the entire surgical removal of the left hemisphere can leave people with no articulate speech other than the ability to swear, spout cliches and song lyrics.
Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed.
I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
Touching on universality is an important part of effective storytelling, but the problem with cliches is that they are tired and dull. And that's where writers must try to be artful.
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.
Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
Women just make interesting characters, especially when you're working against cliches.
In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.
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 think being a foreigner and talking about Hollywood allowed me to use some cliches and some references that an American would maybe not use.
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.
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 would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches.
I'm terrified of cliches.
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.
Most people try to avoid cliches. It's my ambition in life to try to get 'em right!
The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
I'm trying to go beyond the traditional cliches of an African safari.
Educators shouldn't be afraid of cliches. You know why? Because kids don't know most of them! They're a new audience. And they're inspired by cliches.
You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.
Cliches are what make you understand something.
One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.
Most of my cliches aren't original.
Unfortunately, all the cliches we see about Hollywood are true.
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
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.
I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.
Cliches are cliches because they are true.
Let's have some new cliches.
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.
People regurgitate the same old cliches and it becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy of something that's vaguely interesting.
