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I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey.
Alan Rickman
Good
Journey
You
Writing
Word
Characters
Good Writing
Suppose
Overused
Any
Interesting
Interesting Characters
Steve McQueen is a genius. And I think that word is overused, but I think with Steve it's rightly used. He's a genius.
Lupita Nyong'o
Genius
Word
Think
I Think
Rightly
He
Steve
Steve McQueen
Overused
McQueen
Used
I am not a diva: I am a Jones. 'Diva' is so overused. Diva, icons, the whole thing, legends... To be a diva, what is that?
Grace Jones
Diva
Am
Overused
Legends
Icons
Whole
Thing
I think it gets overused and tossed around in ways that aren't true. Every impressive achievement is not genius.
Ron Howard
Achievement
Genius
Every
Think
Ways
Tossed
True
Around
Impressive
Overused
Gets
I've learned that 'love' is used a lot in the States for everything: 'I love that burger,' 'I love my shoes,' 'I love a friend.' To me, if it's overused, it loses meaning.
Juan Pablo Galavis
Love
Me
Love Is
Shoes
Burger
Everything
States
Learned
Loses
Lot
Friend
Overused
Meaning
Used
I think the term 'fair reporting' is overused when it comes to journalism. I think saying they want to report evenly is more accurate.
Larry Wilmore
Saying
Think
More
Journalism
Term
Fair
Overused
Report
Accurate
Reporting
Want
I think 'genius' is an overused word.
Steven Wilson
Genius
Word
Think
Overused
Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.
Fritz Kreisler
Genius
World
Word
Half
About
Only
Geniuses
Fairly
Known
Got
Overused
Near
Dozen
I think what some people are doing with effects is starting to get silly. It's overused.
Richard Donner
People
Some People
Think
Some
Silly
Doing
Effects
Overused
Get
Starting
I like animal sidekicks. They seem to be a pretty cool trope of post-apocalyptic fiction - just because if you're going to have this lone protagonist, they're going to need someone to talk to. Dogs are overused, and cats are dumb. So that leaves monkeys.
Brian K. Vaughan
You
Animal
Cats
Lone
Pretty
Seem
Someone
Like
Protagonist
Talk
Because
Dogs
Leaves
Dumb
Overused
Going
Just
Just Because
Fiction
Cool
Monkeys
Need
I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white.
Artur Davis
Words
Black
Black And White
White
Think
Our
Vocabulary
Most
South
Overused
What's happening on the Colorado River is happening all over the world. The water is overused, overdammed, and it's polluted in some places.
Greg MacGillivray
World
Water
Some
Colorado
River
Over
Overused
Polluted
Happening
Places
I think it tends to be overused and can be a little bit gimmicky. A lot of people are using 3-D now because they feel have they have to... that will come and go and the pictures that deserve to be in 3-D will continue to be. When it's done bad, it can make you carsick.
Joe Johnston
You
People
Will
Think
Bit
Bad
Tends
Feel
Pictures
Come
Come And Go
Make
Because
Go
Continue
Lot
Overused
Done
Little
Little Bit
Using
Now
Deserve
Sometimes a sound gets overused. There is such a thing as a good saxophone, but it's like those fields in agriculture - they need to rest for a year or so. You need time to burn all the saxophones and start from scratch.
Thomas Mars
Time
Good
You
Sometimes
Agriculture
Rest
Year
Saxophone
Those
Like
Sound
Overused
Gets
Scratch
Burn
Fields
Such A Thing
Thing
Start
Need
I have had periods when I've overused a word, 'candent' being one example, but I'm trying not to do that any more.
Neal Asher
Word
Example
More
Had
Periods
Overused
Trying
Any
Being
I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
Ted McGinley
Genius
Word
Way
Said
Always
Overused
Hollywood
I don't like to use 'gourmet' because it has become so overused and abused.
Arthur Schwartz
Become
Abuse
Like
Because
Gourmet
Overused
Use