I wasn't interested in avoiding stereotypes or clichs. Because I think that's a fool's errand. You go around and around trying to make that happen. It was a question of accepting or acknowledging these clichs . . . and saying, yes, these are types. But then exploring these types and moving them toward human-hood.
Quotes about clichs (10 Quotes)
News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichs walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.
It's not a black and white issue - it's not a question of whether we care or don't. It's not an eitheror issue and does us no good to set this example for our kids or community-at-large, to reduce our concerns to simplistic clichs. Just because something has been declared legal doesn't mean that it is right.
I approached opera from the theater side, ... I used to rail against the clichs of the form, all those sopranos in nightgowns dying in Act 2. So what do I have in my first opera A soprano in a nightgown dying in Act 2.
Some of the lyrics come from stream-of-consciousness, and I used to spend a long time honing them into a narrative afterwards. Now I'm fine with keeping things more mysterious. I just let the words and images come to me, rather than direct them. You just have to try not to get lazy, and avoid clichs. There are a lot of things you have to throw away.
Don't go by these old clichs that the rule of thumb is you'll need 70 percent of your income. It's a bunch of baloney. You're best served by not going by rules of thumb. Figure out what do you want and what are you goals.
I think they liked the way we relate to each other. We try to speak from our heart and stay away from clichs.
I think people are just getting bored of the clichs. And I think people are finding more and more they can do different things and try other things out and not be dependent on ... whatever. I think that's a very good thing in music in general. And a lot o
A lot of the red-state, blue-state clichs are stupid and misleading. A lot of people were stunned at how well 'The Passion of the Christ' did in San Francisco, in Madison, Wis., in Philadelphia and New York.
Bang, Bang takes cheery aim at movie clichs while unraveling a murder mystery. I stuffed in the kitchen sink because I was pent-up, ... That way if you don't like one joke, here's this one.