Fight the cliche Quotes

“Your fear of becoming a cliche is what turns you into one. If you remove the fear, we are all really walking contradictions, hypocrites and paradoxical cliches”

“I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic way and you can't disentangle them. But when you actually live a cliche, it feels brand new, and you are unashamed.”

“Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.”

“Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.”

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

“Bad movies and bad writing and easy cliches still manage to make us feel things toward each other. Part of me is disgusted by this. Part of me celebrates it.”

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

“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.”

“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.”