quotes about Mainstream
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I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like thats because technology has caught up with us.
-- Alaina HuffmanSource : "Exclusive Interview: Alaina Huffman Talks Smallville, Stargate Universe, and Agent Mom". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. January 27, 2011.
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Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.
-- Alex KapranosSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Gooseberries should be mainstream berries! Why are chemically fattened strawberries a thing? Why not the delicious gooseberry?
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I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
-- Anne Enright -
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There was a time I had resentment against everything mainstream.
-- Anurag Kashyap -
What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream. What I did see on Twitter was a potential for mass publication; it's a mainstream consumer broadcasting device. It transforms customers and companies. You have to be transparent or you fail.
-- Ashton Kutcher -
I have always been mainstream. It's so weird, because I don't see it as something negative at all. So many people see it as something negative.
-- AviciiSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other.
-- Bharati Mukherjee -
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The failures of the press have contributed immensely to the emergence of a talk-show nation, in which public discourse is reduced to ranting and raving and posturing. We now have a mainstream press whose news agenda is increasingly influenced by this netherworld.
-- Carl BernsteinSource : "The idiot culture". Carl Bernstein, The New Republic, June 8, 1992.
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The mainstream media doesn't want to get into this because they don't want to know where this one goes.
-- Curt Weldon -
I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.
-- David Ogden StiersSource : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.
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I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream.
-- Eric Church -
If the movies that I'm going to make anyway go mainstream, that would be the coolest thing ever. But I have set up a plan that I've been working on for a long time.
-- Evan GlodellSource : "Exclusive Q&A: Filmmaker Breathes Fire into Ultra-Indie Bellflower". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2011.
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I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something.
-- Famke Janssen -
I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.
-- George W. S. TrowSource : George W. S. Trow (1981). “Within the Context of No Context”, p.9, Atlantic Monthly Press
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These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.
-- Imran Khan -
Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch.
-- Jason Patric -
There are just a number of documents within the company and the industry that clearly indicate that secondhand smoke is just as dangerous, if not more dangerous, than mainstream smoke -- and the documents date back into the 70s.
-- Jeffrey Wigand -
Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies.
-- Jeremy Rifkin -
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We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior.
-- Jerry Springer -
My friends are mostly familiar with music that plays on the mainstream radio.
-- Jessica Sanchez -
Dance music has pushed its way into the mainstream. Which is good for me.
-- Jessie WareSource : "One to watch: Jessie Ware" by Morwenna Ferrier, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.
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I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.
-- Jim JarmuschSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.
-- Jimmy Wales -
I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.
-- Jodie Foster -
Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.
-- John Kufuor -
Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and damn it up.
-- John Naisbitt -
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You don't accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that.
-- Kinky Friedman -
When Nirvana hit it big, it was overwhelming because we were part of the counterculture. Nirvana didn't go to the mainstream - the mainstream came to Nirvana.
-- Krist Novoselic -
Timothy Spall - best known to mainstream audiences as Wormtail in the Harry Potter series - delivers an Oscar-caliber tour de force reminiscent of Charles Laughton
-- Lou Lumenick -
Fat is mainstream, which is why everyone has become complacent. What used to be considered pudgy before isn't even worthy of a comment today.
-- Marion Nestle -
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I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay.
-- Mary Douglas -
Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.
-- Matt Drudge -
I've always felt quite like an outsider. I don't really belong in the mainstream, and I quite like that.
-- Nick LoweSource : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 27, 2007.
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Electronic music is really weird right, because it is bleeding into the mainstream, but, at the same time, it's fashion.
-- Nigel GodrichSource : Source: www.rollingstone.com
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I think I am very mainstream - I'm committed to good works in my life.
-- Peter Jennings -
The creative individual is no longer viewed as an iconoclast. He—or she—is the new mainstream.
-- Richard FloridaSource : Richard Florida (2014). “The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited: Revised and Expanded”, p.7, Basic Books
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[Writing scripts] I'm not looking to jump in and make super mainstream movies. I still like to make movies that I like to see.
-- Rob Zombie -
I’m not into the whole Austrian type, strongly libertarian economics. I like more mainstream economics
-- Robert Sarvis -
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Oftentimes you'll see stuff that makes it into the mainstream that has been influenced by things that are clearly not from the mainstream.
-- Steve Buscemi -
There's the exciting part about comedy - if you catch an act just before they go mainstream, that's the best. After they hit the mainstream, everything gets watered down a little bit.
-- Tommy Chong -
Democrat leaders are not only out of the American mainstream, but are also out of the Democratic mainstream.
-- Virginia Foxx -
Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.
-- Walter Annenberg -
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I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.
-- Willem Dafoe -
It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.
-- William Hurt -
You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
-- Young Buck -
Donald Trump's fought, quite frankly, the entire mainstream media, who is always, you know, who's always counted him out, never thought he could do this, who's always put him down.
-- Eric TrumpSource : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
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I much prefer being in the studio or on stage and staying out of the mainstream really.
-- Ian Astbury -
I like Plutarch because I've read him forever, and I know that he's incredibly funky, even though his mainstream image is as Mr. Unfunky.
-- John D'AgataSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism.
-- Kate ZambrenoSource : Source: therumpus.net
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Poetry is something that disturbs the mainstream with minor things and it is something that breaks down active discrimination with passive things, and it can break down something that polishes the filthy things with filthy things.
-- Kim HyesoonSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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I'm not sure what kept me from the mainstream. I thought it was because I was too hard to pin down genre-wise.
-- Princess Superstar -
Being out of the mainstream is entirely consistent with the way Donald Trump is approaching his presidency.
-- Tom Gjelten -
When I first read 'On the Road,' it helped me figure out how to live against the grain. Now I wonder how to be subversive when the subversive has become mainstream.
-- Tony D'Souza -
I’m not into the whole Austrian type, strongly libertarian economics. I like more mainstream economics.
-- Robert SarvisSource : "Robert Sarvis: Libertarian Candidate for Governor of Virginia with Double-Digit Poll Numbers". Interview with Brian Doherty, reason.com. October 2, 2013.
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People love discovering you. The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs, you're their friend.
-- Eileen MylesSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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A lot of dudes can't function too long in mainstream life because they've been indoctrinated into that penal system where that shapes their life.
-- Sadat X -
Don't rebel against the mainstream only to conform to the underground.
-- Tomas Kalnoky