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name: 'Samuel Goldwyn — "Let''s have some new cliches."'
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date: 2026-05-04
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link: "https://quoteinvestigator.com/2026/04/04/new-cliches/"
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linkText: "quoteinvestigator.com"
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source: "Quote Investigator"
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topics:
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- quotes
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tags: [goldwyn, hollywood, language, malapropism]
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description: "Samuel Goldwyn — Polish-born MGM founder famed for self-contradicting one-liners ('Goldwynisms') — on the perpetual demand for fresh language."
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> Let's have some new clichés.
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Samuel Goldwyn — the Polish immigrant who co-founded what became MGM and produced *Wuthering Heights* and *The Best Years of Our Lives* — generated so many of these self-contradicting one-liners that they got their own name (*Goldwynisms*). This one was a working note to his writers and now reads like a brief for any creative team.
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