Mainstream Quotes - Page 13

• I think pro wrestling doesn't seem to get a lot of mainstream attention until somebody dies.

  CM Punk

  Wrestling, Thinking, Attention

  Source: www.gq.com

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• For those who resist the notion that the mainstream is a genre, we recommend that they browse the shelves of their local bookstore. For if the mainstream is not a genre, then it must necessarily embrace all kinds of writing: romance, adventure, horror, thriller, crime, and, yes, science fiction.

  James Patrick Kelly

  Writing, Adventure, Romance

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• Celtic music will always be around, even if with the mainstream crowds it dies out.

  Natalie MacMaster

  Crowds, Celtic, Dies

  "MacMaster sings in praise of the fiddle 'In My Hands'" by Serena Yang, www.cnn.com. November 8, 1999.

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• If you stay in the mainstream of life, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters all of our lives by the time we're in our middle years, when we've experienced a few deaths and read a few headlines.

  Richard Rohr

  Years, Suffering, World

  Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com

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• I want to be enriched by the music I listen to. That's the reason it never really exists in the mainstream. Because that's not what most people are after.

  Conor Oberst

  People, Want, Reason

  "Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes". Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. December 11, 2007.

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• You gotta look beyond the mainstream... the mainstream'll drown you, you know? There's always a pulse in the underground that I love. And the pulse in the underground is what keeps heavy metal alive.

  Phil Anselmo

  Pulse, Looks, Alive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nirvana's success drew attention to a marketing demographic previously ignored by the mainstream, and inadvertently started a gold rush with advertising executives, product manufacturers, merchandise distributors, fashion coordinators, and rock imitators, the latter of whom have yet to equal the sincerity, power, and wit of Nirvana.

  Kim Thayil

  Fashion, Rocks, Marketing

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• The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made commonplace by television and magazine merchandising, by computer games and Internet visuals, by film and MTV, by the fashion shoot.

  Graham Joyce

  Fashion, Mtv, Games

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• I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

  J. Cole

  Rap, Writing, Average

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• The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Country, Mind, Our Society

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.86, Beacon Press

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• In attacking the young, the liberal, and the black, Daley was in the mainstream of America's mass prejudices. The Democratic party may have suffered by his actions, but Daley came out...even more popular than before because bust their heads was the mood of the land and Daley had swung the biggest club.

  Mike Royko

  Party, Land, America

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• Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists.

  Sara Sheridan

  Writing, Thinking, Novelists

  "Opinion: literary and commercial writers should lay down their arms" by Sara Sheridan, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2011.

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• I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zeppelins and Bostons and Peter Framptons of the time. In many ways, classic rock became bigger than mainstream rock.

  Chuck D

  Rocks, Boston, Berries

  "Chuck D on Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Of Course Hip-Hop Belongs". Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. December 18, 2012.

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• I've always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.

  Sara Blakely

  Blue, Style, Nails

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• Social activism has gone mainstream. A new generation of philanthropic leaders such as Bill and Melinda Gates, and Bono are providing inspiration, guidance, and billions of dollars through their global foundations.

  Willow Bay

  Inspiration, Leader, Dollars

  "Living Now Gets a Makeover: Check Out Our New How-To Guide for a Fuller Life" by Willow Bay, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2007.

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• Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.

  Iain Banks

  Falling In Love, Character, Males

  Interview with Ken Livingstone, www.newstatesman.com.

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• Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Sports, Doe, Minorities

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• Greenwich Village always had its share of mind readers, but there are many more these days, and they seem to have moved closer to the mainstream of life in the city. What was crazy 10 years ago is now respectable, even among the best-educated New Yorkers.

  Aravind Adiga

  Crazy, Years, Cities

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• I carry my own film guys with me now. People think that's a huge expense, but with technology like it is these days, it's not. You can film videos and everything with a Canon Mark II, and shoot a movie. They're doing it for next to nothing, by comparison. I can do ten videos for a project for the price of one mainstream video in the past.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Thinking, Past, Technology

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• We're all imperfect. And wouldn't it be great if the message sent out by the mainstream media is that we're fine being exactly who we are? Wouldn't that be great for everyone?

  Emilio Estevez

  Media, Who We Are, Messages

  "Emilio Estevez On ‘The Way’: Actor Discusses New Movie, Life, Love, Faith And Micro-Farms". Interview With Lauren Rosenblum, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2011.

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• Any judicial nominee who has said that the Constitution means what it says, not what judges would like it to mean, is going to be called an 'extremist.' That person will be said to be 'out of the mainstream.' But the mainstream is itself the problem.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mean, Judging, Constitution

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• To be an actor in the society in Israel, you have to be ten times better than the Israeli Jews. To get the roles in mainstream theater or to get any role, not typecast as an Arab. And also if you are ten times better, not all the time you get the opportunity.

  Ali Suliman

  Opportunity, Israel, Actors

  "Charisma Personified: Meeting Ali Suliman at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival". Interview with E. Nina Rothe, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2014.

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• I think it's what we've always tried to do, is just find a unique way in, and find a unique way to be true to what the character is from the comics and what fans are aware of and expecting. And at the same time do it in a way that mainstream audiences and as wide an audience as possible can find their own way into it.

  Kevin Feige

  Character, Unique, Thinking

  "ANT-MAN Set Visit: Kevin Feige Talks Expanding Mythology and More". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. June 22, 2015.

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• The UN stopped using Chalabi's information as a basis for conducting inspections once the tenuous nature of his sources and his dubious motivations became clear. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the mainstream US media, which give prominent coverage to sources of information that, had they not been related to Hussein's Iraq, would normally be immediately dismissed.

  Scott Ritter

  Motivation, Media, Iraq

  The Christian Science Monitor, January 28, 2002.

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• My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the chasm's edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss.

  Edvard Munch

  Fall, Jumping, Trying

  Ragna Thiis Stang, Edvard Munch (1979). “Edvard Munch: The Man and the Artist”

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