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It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.
Rebecca Hall / Film Actress
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Stories
Telling Stories
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It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine.
Portia De Rossi / Actress
Corny
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Mine
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Although it sounds very trite, I wish people were nice.
Bobcat Goldthwait / Actor
People Wish I Wish
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It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.
Peter Krause / Film Actor
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I don't want to sound trite, but 'Star Wars' really, really impacted me.
Lucas Till / Actor
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It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens.
Nigella Lawson / Journalist
Corny
Life Is
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I've got passion, and for people who don't, I make them see how trite their lives are.
John Singleton /
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I didn't want to do some trivial, lame, trite, sweetie-pie, 'How thin can I be?' role.
Sherilyn Fenn / Actress
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It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.
Salma Hayek / Film Actress
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Talking about the democratization of fashion is just one of the many trite things people say these days.
Miuccia Prada / Fashion Designer
Democratization
Just One
People Fashion Things
People Say
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I think it's so trite to say you have lead characters. It's like someone saying I'm the lead in my life.
Lena Waithe / Screenwriter
Life My Life Someone
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There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.
Jan Karon / Writer
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Trite as it sounds, follow your heart. Persevere. And if you follow your heart and persevere, it will pay off.
Mike Portnoy / Drummer
Follow Your Heart
Heart
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Persevere
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Follow
Off
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This may sound trite, but I believe it to be true: Entrepreneurship is the fabric of what America is all about.
Vivek Ramaswamy /
Entrepreneurship
Fabric
Believe May I Believe
Be True
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What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
Wendell Phillips / Lawyer
Fanaticism
Fashionable
Multiplication
Tables
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Tomorrow
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In a popular medium, you're going to get loads of stuff that is trite, but there'll also be some really special moments.
Kate Bush / Singer-Songwriter
Loads
Medium
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It sounds so trite to say I make a difference, but I really feel, especially in a community college, I can make a difference.
Jill Biden / Wife Of The Vice President Of The United States
Community College
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There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.
Yanni / Pianist
Abstract
Female
Gender
Voice
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A banal poem is never more than a banal poem. A banal or trite lyric, however, can be - with the right vocal cords - brilliantly and shatteringly conveyed.
Jonathan Miles /
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I don't mean to be trite about abortion, but I do feel it's a woman's body, and I don't think anyone should take away her choice of having or not having a child.
Joanna Cassidy /
Abortion
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I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer - this may seem trite, I realize - you have to actually write.
Khaled Hosseini / Novelist
So Many People
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This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.
Warren Rudman / Attorney
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Disaster
Good People
May
Natural Disaster
People
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Good I Am People
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I just try to write literally what I love. That's usually the barometer that I use. As trite as it sounds, I'm like, 'what would I want to see? What would I be excited about?'
Leigh Whannell / Screenwriter
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When I was shooting 'The Bourne Identity,' I had a mantra: 'How come you never see James Bond pay a phone bill?' It sounds trite, but it became the foundation of that franchise.
Doug Liman / Film Director
Bourne
Identity
Phones
Shooting
Bill
Bond
Phone
Franchise
James
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The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.
Robert E. Lee / Military Officer
Conviction
Criticism
Honest
Honest Man
Policy
Met
Saying
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Fitness starts at home. What you eat is what you will look, just as what you sow is what you reap. Eat good food: eat fruits, vegetables, healthy grains, and don't go for sweet and trite food.
Rakul Preet Singh /
Fitness
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Healthy
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Sweet
Vegetables
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Good Home Food
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I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes.
Sherilyn Fenn / Actress
Humor
Corny
Sitcom
Thinking
Want
Circumstance
Mostly
Network
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I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been fraught because he was uncompromising and explosive but if he taught me one thing it was to air my views.
Vince Cable / British Politician
Air
Father
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Views
Debates
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Fraught
Political Father Me
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Negotiation is empathy. It's almost trite to say that if you can't put yourself in the seat of the other person you're speaking with, you're not going to do well. It's not about being a bully, not about making offers people can't refuse.
Marc Randolph /
Bully
Empathy
Negotiation
Offers
Refuse
Yourself People Person
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Seat
Making
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I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'
Samantha Bond / Film Actress
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My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.
David Duchovny / Actor
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Brotherhood
Feelings
Focus
Past
Life Future Past
Life Future Focus
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The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play.
Patrick Marber / Comedian
Character
Narrative
Play
Writing
Life My Life True
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Experienced
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I kind of thought that stand-up comedy would suffer from the Internet because people seem to know more about the craft of stand-up than ever before. I thought it would seem trite. Kind of like if you know more about magicians, you wouldn't love them.
Jerry Seinfeld / Comedian
Comedy
Internet
Stand Up Comedy
Love People Comedy
Craft
Magicians
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My mom always instilled in me that it was braver to ask for help when you need it. That has absolutely stuck with me over the years but became even more important in practice once I became a mother. It may sound trite, but the concept of 'it takes a village' really could not be more true.
Julia Hartz /
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Village
Mom Mother Always
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People are prospering from being unapologetically offensive, trite, and stupid. And we are tweeting ourselves into high blood pressure and ulcers trying to tell them to do better... Being a pompous nut biscuit is now a publicity strategy, and I don't know what we can do to end the madness.
Luvvie Ajayi /
Blood
Blood Pressure
High Blood Pressure
Madness
Offensive
Pompous
Pressure
Prospering
Publicity
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Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.
Gary Jennings / Author
Polo
Done World Me
World Me New
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What makes climbing great for me, strangely enough, is this life-and-death aspect. It sounds trite to say, I know, but climbing isn't just another game. It isn't just another sport. It's life itself. Which is what makes it so compelling and also what makes it so impossible to justify when things go bad.
Jon Krakauer / Writer
Aspect
Climbing
Compelling
Justify
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When you first start photographing a show or being into photography, you might think it's cool to see people with their phones, like, 'It's so novel; everyone cares about this moment so much,' but then it becomes... trite, y'know, and shallow. I think the best moments of my life have been spent without phones.
Griz /
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Life Cool Best
Becomes
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