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Eclipse' is overlong and overly self-conscious, but it isn't a fake or a zero; it just gets exhausting. It raises a crucial question: 'When does Concept morph into Gimmick?' -- Robert Gottlieb
The Orgasmic Death Gimmick is rather complicated. It could be called the whole birth-death cycle of action, persuading people that birth and death are realities. -- William S. Burroughs
You gotta have a gimmick. -- Ethel Merman
February days are a marketing gimmick; love happens every day. -- Randeep Hooda
Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture. -- Method Man
There are a lot of bands using self-abuse as a marketing gimmick. -- Bruce Dickinson
Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick. -- Marilyn Manson
God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there? -- Whitney Houston
I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day. -- Drake
It wasn't like I just woke up and said, 'Here's my gimmick; I'll wear a hat and put something weird on it.' -- Judah Friedlander
People are mistaken to view cinema as some sort of gimmick. It's very much ingrained in the ways in which we understand each other. -- Nicolas Roeg
My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material. -- Tommy Chong
The Hamas organization is explicitly dedicated to the destruction of Israel. That is not a rhetorical gimmick; it is its declared unwavering primary goal. -- James Howard Kunstler
I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick. -- Hedy Lamarr
Everybody is designing magic iPhone apps that do things that are really, really beautiful, but a really important thing about magic is that the gimmick has to be ugly. -- Penn Jillette
No matter how skillful you are, you can't invent a product advantage that doesn't exist. And if you do, and it's just a gimmick, it's going to fall apart anyway. -- William Bernbach
Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz Singer' or the first colour or surround sound - it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it. -- John Lasseter
Lionel Essrog, the twitching, barking, gabbling narrator of Jonathan Lethem's new novel, 'Motherless Brooklyn,' is no movie-of-the-week novelty grafted onto a noir mystery. Maybe his Tourette's is a gimmick, but it's a gimmick with depth, with soul. -- Gary Krist
Ultimate Warrior had a hell of a gimmick, but wrestling is about so much more than that. You have to be consistent, work main events every night and have matches that people really believe in and want to see. -- Hulk Hogan
The biggest and most interesting crisis in the world is the human crisis, and it never gets boring. It goes back to Shakespeare. You don't need a gimmick; it's just man against man and their intolerance of each other. -- Sylvester Stallone
I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them. -- Iggy Azalea
I think, honestly, that the word 'indie' is a false gimmick. 'Independent' used to mean a movie that was financed outside corporate Hollywood, but a lot of what gets called independent these days is totally produced within that system. And there's nothing wrong with that. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I don't make films that are easy to market, unfortunately. I think that 'Pi' was the easiest one, because we had that symbol to stick up everywhere, so that was a good gimmick, and created a good mystery, and we didn't have to do huge scale. -- Darren Aronofsky
Most restaurants in most cities, including Washington, are at a sort of mid-level. They're somewhat trendy, or they have some sort of gimmick, or they're somewhat expensive. And they make a lot of money off drinks. I tell people don't go to most of them, unless your goal is just to socialize. -- Tyler Cowen
My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks in gospel music. With gospel music, there is this central theme that always comes around about the love of God, the love of Jesus and the power that you have through Jesus Christ. You don't need a gimmick when you have that. -- Yolanda Adams
There's a lot of gimmick infringement out there, but that's cool. It's a compliment. But it all started right when I first came into the Garden. I came down to 'Eye of the Tiger' and when I hit the ring with the Sheik, I just put my hand up to my ear by accident, and the crowd got louder. I was like 'Oh, that works.' -- Hulk Hogan
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Awards are only a publicity gimmick. -- Tony Randall
Gas tax holiday is a classic Washington gimmick. -- Barack Obama
You've seen one gimmick, you've seen them all, -- Terrell Suggs
The world is nothing but a big gimmick. -- Jimi Hendrix
Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love. -- Iggy Pop
When you're in business, if you have some sort of gimmick it's a huge advantage. -- Barbara Corcoran
These days, you have to have a gimmick to do the weather. You have to have an act. -- Willard Scott
If you are going to be a big personality, you've got to have some kind of characteristic gimmick. -- Farley Mowat
Why is a movie starring women considered a gimmick and a movie starring men is just a normal movie? -- Paul Feig
[Death is] a gimmick. It's the time-birth-death gimmick. Can't go on much longer, too many people are wising up. -- William S. Burroughs
I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss. -- Tom Verlaine
Science fiction shows are traditionally about the gimmick or the gadget and tend to be emotionally cool to the touch. -- J. Michael Straczynski
Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids) is a gimmick comedian who has devoted her short career to being obese and obnoxious with equal success. -- Rex Reed
If you look at the state of our planet, the next generations won't be around if we consider sustainability as a gimmick. -- Jochen Zeitz
I feel like the high-concept shows that have some kind of gimmick tend not to be the hit classic shows of all time. -- Mindy Kaling
In the 1970s, there was a trend for all detectives on TV to have some quirk or gimmick, and this was often physical. -- Mark Billingham
Anytime you run a gimmick offence, you're a little bit afraid - you're not sound in what you're doing in your base stuff. -- Richard Sherman
It's real simple - we all have nightmares, and the idea you can be in real jeopardy in them is a great gimmick. It's universal. -- Robert Englund
I didnt get arrested to show off my wild character. People say its a gimmick for all five of us to be different. Thats ridiculous. -- Donnie Wahlberg
There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money! -- Duke Ellington
All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background. -- Bobby Vinton
I've never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I've wanted the music to do that. -- Taylor Swift
It is a common public relations gimmick to give the entire credit for the solution of famous problems to the one mathematician who is responsible for the last step. -- Gian-Carlo Rota
A so-called 'blackout' is yet another gimmick, albeit a dangerous one, designed to punish elected and administration officials who are working diligently to protect American jobs from foreign criminals, -- Christopher Dodd
My own sense and taste in 3D films has been I don't really like it when it feels like it's a gimmick and it's coming at me, it's flying at me. -- James Mangold
I hate the things they preach. They found a gimmick that sells. The fact that they're making money off all these teenage kids who actually believe in their message is disgusting. -- Christina Ricci
With each passing decade, history becomes less real for us, less immediate and essential to our way of life, and so, like 'green' nature, more of a commodity or an advertising gimmick. -- John Burnside
I don't like 3D. I don't believe there is any film that I have seen and loved that would have been improved by a scintilla in 3D. To me, it's just a gimmick. -- William Friedkin
I spent my life - all my life - learning to wrestle. It's the only means of livelihood I've ever had and, uh, the only gimmick that I have in wrestling is wrestling. -- Lou Thesz
I don't believe that Citizen Kane or Gone With the Wind, or any damn picture that you can name, would be better off in 3D. I think it's a gimmick. I find 3D distracting. -- William Friedkin
This is deeply disturbing. Congress provided loans to help businesses hurt by the Sept. 11 attacks, not to be used as an accounting gimmick to cover up this administration's failure to provide for small businesses. -- John F. Kerry
The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out. -- Jackie Cooper

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