Mainstream Quotes - Page 15

• As I see it, mainstream comics now speak only to the hardcore few who stayed; conversing in a weird, garbled, visual pig latin only they can understand - rendering the term 'mainstream' a hollow joke - while the true mainstream, the other 99.9% of the populace, find enjoyment elsewhere.

  Scott McCloud

  Latin, Book, Pigs

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• That is perceptive of you, because in this country men dancers have always been viewed with suspicion. If you were an actor, a star, and a dancer, you had to be, or have a name like someone mainstream.

  Cesar Romero

  Country, Stars, Men

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• Once you depart from the Ten Commandments, you have relativism, humanism, the abandonment of absolutes. You have anything. How long before child pornography is mainstream?

  Randall Terry

  Children, Long, Abandonment

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• I think artists should be able to do different things whenever they want and I like the way I am. I'm like - I ain't gonna say the only street rapper, but the only mainstream, new, young street rapper there is right now and I'm doing well with it.

  Meek Mill

  Thinking, Rapper, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People who don't quite fit society, they are often kind of either under an awful lot of pressure or otherwise not acceptable to the mainstream and that tells us a lot about who we are. The people that don't fit are a great way of reflecting on all of us.

  Lenny Abrahamson

  People, Who We Are, Awful

  Source: collider.com

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• The best tests of my Christian growth occur in the mainstream of life, not in the quietness of my study

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Christian, Growth, Tests

  Charles R. Swindoll (1994). “Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life”, p.147, Zondervan

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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 Huffman

  Technology, Fiction, Caught

  "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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• Over the years, TV has gotten so much better, especially with the advent of cable. The bar has been raised. I think HBO really set the standard with The Sopranos, and then on mainstream TV, shows like Lost broke amazing ground.

  Nestor Carbonell

  Thinking, Years, Tv Shows

  "Exclusive: Nestor Carbonell Talks RINGER, LOST and THE DARK KNIGHT RISES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 12, 2011.

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• I'm not really that keen on mainstream; I'm not interested in doing the normal films. I do tend to go for the quirky, different scripts.

  Gina Bellman

  Quirky, Different, Scripts

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• in our culture, the professional, and largely white, middle class is taken as a social norm - a bland and neutral mainstream - from which every other group or class is ultimately a kind of deviation.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Taken, Class, White

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1989). “FEAR OF FALLING”, Pantheon

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• Once I started getting mainstream people to my shows, I realized we were taking too many solos, and they were too long. I started gauging when people were going on their iPhones.

  Robert Glasper

  Iphone, Long, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don't see that much.

  Haile Gerima

  Independent, Cinema, Movement

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I feel very discouraged with the state of gay and lesbian publishing because I don't feel like we're really welcome in the mainstream and then you get ghettoized and put on some lesbian book club reading list where you don't want to be either.

  Ali Liebegott

  Book, Reading, Gay

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• 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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• 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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• I think one of the problems with the capitalist mainstream is this: no matter what you create to respond or resist it they will buy it.

  Eve Ensler

  Thinking, Matter, Problem

  Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. May 1, 2014.

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• Under this [Bush] Administration, America's middle class has been abandoned -- its dreams denied, its Main Street interests ignored and its mainstream values scorned by a White House that puts privilege first.

  John F. Kerry

  Dream, America, Class

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• Several decades ago, a detachment of the American right cut itself loose from reason, and it has been drifting along happily ever since. If the birthers are more evidently kooky than the global-warming "skeptics" or the death-panellers or the supply-siders or the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, they are, in their fundamental disregard for the facts, actually mainstream.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Cutting, Fundamentals, Facts

  "The Things People Say" by Elizabeth Kolbert, www.newyorker.com. November 2, 2009.

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• There is a strange depression that hangs over every little town that is no longer in the mainstream of life.

  Margaret Craven

  Littles, Towns, Strange

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• An idea is like a play. It needs a good producer and a good promoter even if it is a masterpiece. Otherwise the play may never open; or it may open but, for a lack of an audience, close after a week. Similarly, an idea will not move from the fringes to the mainstream simply because it is good; it must be skillfully marketed before it will actually shift people's perceptions and behavior.

  David Bornstein

  Moving, Play, Ideas

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• I have an appreciation for what some people would call "bad acting," but which I think can be much more real than the overly emotive, technical and supposedly "realistic" acting that is so prevalent in mainstream cinema.

  Bruce LaBruce

  Appreciation, Real, Thinking

  "Reading photographs may be like reading language, but only up to a point". Interview with Bucky Miller, believermagblog.wordpress.com. June 6, 2014.

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• I can't judge how another person does their [music] work. Everyone has a choice and the music industry is much more open that it was when I was younger. Certain things are gone, others have developed, but everyone makes their choices. Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public. I don't feel it's my place to judge. I just look at things as a fan, I like or or I don't like it.

  Patti Smith

  Judging, Choices, Fans

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• Hip-hop artist, especially the older ones, are the ones who new hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.

  Nas

  Artist, Hip Hop, Want

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• I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the mainstream thing again.

  Mara Wilson

  Thinking, Trying, Might

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