Pop Culture Quotes - Page 10

• That is what [Andy] Warhol portraits do: They elevate the subject into an icon of the pop culture he was documenting.

  Giorgio Armani

  Icons, Portraits, Culture

  Interview Magazine Interview, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 1, 2008.

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• Fans decide what pop culture is. We can define ourselves. Music and the presentation of art nowadays is totally in our control, with the Internet specifically. You no longer need record labels. You no longer need movie distribution companies. You can just make it and put it online, and it will distribute itself to millions of people. The borders and everything have been broken down. It really is in the hands of the people.

  Laura Jane Grace

  Art, Hands, People

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• When bands come from that underground scene and go into the mainstream, people just hate it. And it blows my mind. If you're saying you don't like what pop culture is, then change it. And when someone does make an effort to change it, everyone rebels against it and hates it. You can't win. People just want that division to exist. They don't want that division to go away.

  Laura Jane Grace

  Hate, Blow, Winning

  "Tom Gabel of Against Me!". Interview with Jason Heller, music.avclub.com. July 24, 2007.

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• I'm a huge Nirvana fan and I like seeing things that at first seem out of context, but actually they're one of the biggest bands in the world. I like to see pop culture, like punk or alternative culture, clash with some other type of culture.

  Nick Zinner

  Fans, Culture, Alternatives

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Why is thinking about crime or imagining crime so goddamn central to pop culture? It doesn't matter whether it's American TV or British TV. And there's entire sections of bookstores devoted to crime.

  Elliott Colla

  Thinking, Bookstores, Culture

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Sometimes that's the only way I exist, talking to people through pop culture.

  Dev Hynes

  Talking, People, Culture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I allude to Back to the Future in the 1985 story to let folks know it was an inspiration and because it literally was the most time-travelly bit of pop culture we had in the mid 80's. I can talk about their tools for considering change. First, the book is metafictive in a traditional sense where I'm showing and telling the reader that the act of writing and reading is a reflexive way to push boundaries of real and literal time travel. Writers and readers are time travellers. The question is what we do with that time we traveled when we leave a book, leave a page.

  Kiese Laymon

  Real, Book, Inspiration

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I put so much pop culture in my movies because we speak about pop culture all the time. But, for some reason, movies exist in a world where there's no pop culture.

  Will Gluck

  Culture, World, Speak

  Source: collider.com

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• We stay away from pop culture almost all the time, you know. That's sort of a rule. You won't really hear people on our show talking about Beyoncé or Adele. We try to make it a little bit more timeless.

  Jill Soloway

  Talking, People, Trying

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• Sometimes something will be happening in pop culture and a movie will be right there, so you'll have this perception that maybe the movie got there first. But in reality, culture gets there first.

  Ellen Page

  Reality, Perception, Firsts

  Source: waytooindie.com

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• MTV Awards are fun - it's MTV! You never know what's going to happen. It's a slice of pop culture in the moment, and you can't take it too seriously.

  Megan Alexander

  Fun, Awards, Mtv

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Pop culture, commercials. You only come across a commercial if you're watching a TV all the time. I've never been all that upset. I like hearing the songs. I guess I've never been all that caught up in it.

  Iron & Wine

  Song, Upset, Culture

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's funny how film is the slowest art form to adapt to freedom. It's had freedom all along. It could've done whatever it wanted to. You know the same freedom that do-it-yourself punk and post-punk musicians had in the late 70s and ever since. That's about the time I started getting interested in film, and I assumed that film would be moving along with the other pop culture forms. Its finally done it but it's taken decades for it to catch up just to basement band level.

  Guy Maddin

  Art, Moving, Taken

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I'm a pop culture junkie. I'm a People magazine reader, an US Weekly subscriber; all of those celebrity magazines get my dollar.

  Laurie Foos

  People, Dollars, Culture

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My mom was a big Elvis fan and a general pop culture buff, and so I grew up in a house filled with what were then called "movie magazines,"Before Elvis when Rhona Barrett wrote her column about the stars. And so it seeped in.

  Laurie Foos

  Mom, Stars, House

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think so much of our society is geared towards mainstream media and pop culture and so forth. And there's a huge divide between the artist and the fan. And with indie culture that wall is removed. You actually do see the musicians walking around enjoying the show. It's a distinctly different culture and for the 99% of Nirvana fans that caught up with them with Nevermind, my book is gonna give them a whole different take on Kurt [Cobain] and the band.

  Bruce Pavitt

  Wall, Book, Thinking

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• I love everything black, because black is cool. When something crosses over, people are like, "Oh, this is a crossover." First of all, there is no urban anymore. Pop culture is black. White kids are dressing like black kids. It's all crossed the lines now. The way I understand it is, everything black is cool. When it crosses over to white, that means it's going from cool to uncool. That's what crossover is.

  Brett Ratner

  Mean, Kids, White

  "Chris Tucker and Brett Ratner". Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. August 7, 2007.

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• The pop culture has become more frenetic. There are more forces at work that are far more invasive. However, I think it would be perfectly doable to defend ones loved ones from some of the harsher aspects of public life. You’re not going to be a 100% successful. But you can see when it’s on purpose. It’s so blatantly easy to avoid at times and you can tell when it was unavoidable.

  Mel Gibson

  Successful, Thinking, Would Be

  "Exclusive: Mel Gibson Finally Talks". Interview with Allison Hope Weiner, deadline.com. September 20, 2012.

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• I found it incredibly disheartening that in the late '90s, suddenly pop culture became even more misogynistic and more homophobic, and so I criticized Eminem for having lyrics that were egregiously homophobic and egregiously misogynistic.

  Moby

  Culture, Found, Pops

  "Exclusive Premiere of Moby’s New Video, 'The Last Day'". Interview with Jaeah Lee, www.motherjones.com. September 2, 2014.

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• Sacrifices have to be made if you want to make a dent in the world, and that's what I started out to do - to make a dent in pop culture.

  RuPaul

  Sacrifice, World, Want

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• I always think, quite frankly that pop culture is a lot more important than a lot of people realize.

  Hugh Hefner

  Thinking, People, Important

  "Interview with Hugh Hefner". nsarchive.gwu.edu.

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• That's where all good music comes from, I think - anything that's likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there's no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Thinking, Impact, Expectations

  Interview with Larry Livermore, larrylivermore.com. August 14, 2009.

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• I think one of the thing that makes a Kubrick film a great experience is the fact that he bends reality to his will and is so confident that he ends up creating something that is the island in the stream of pop culture and he takes a stand that's so firm and so confident and unyielding that it can't be ignored and I appreciate that.

  Barry Ptolemy

  Reality, Thinking, Islands

  "Barry Ptolemy Gets Personal". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 27, 2009.

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• Pop culture is more and more about skulls and skeletons and zombies and vampires, and that's not just on Halloween.

  Michael Almereyda

  Halloween, Skeletons, Skulls

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• I think there's a lot to be learned from pop culture. But at the same time I see the dangers of using it in an exclusive way to construct meaning in your life.

  Dana Spiotta

  Thinking, Way, Culture

  Source: www.believermag.com

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