Mainstream Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• Blacks are supposed to rejoice whenever our way of life becomes more mainstream. We seldom do. For we see in it a sanctioning that can only be granted by white society. In other words: If you're white, it's all right. If you're black, step back.

  Lena Williams

  White, Racism, Black

  Lena Williams (2002). “It's the Little Things: Everyday Interactions that Anger, Annoy, and Divide the Races”, p.184, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.

  George W. S. Trow

  Made, Ability, Artifacts

  George W. S. Trow (1981). “Within the Context of No Context”, p.9, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Years, Political, Politician

  "Iain Duncan Smith backs tax breaks for married couples" by Hélène Mulholland, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2011.

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• Personally, I can't stand violence. In any standard American mainstream movie, there's 20 times more violence than in any one of my films, so I don't know why those directors aren't asked why they're such specialists for violence.

  Michael Haneke

  Directors, Violence, Film

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• Mainstream cinema raises questions only to immediately provide an answer to them, so they can send the spectator home reassured. If we actually had those answers, then society would appear very different from what it is.

  Michael Haneke

  Home, Raises Questions, Different

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• I want to make it clear: it's not that I hate mainstream cinema. It's perfectly fine. There are a lot of people who need to escape, because they are in very difficult situations, so they have the right to escape from the world. But this has nothing to do with an art form.

  Michael Haneke

  Art, Hate, Difficult Situations

  "Decade: Michael Haneke Talks 'Code Inconnu' and 'The Piano Teacher'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. December 08, 2009.

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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

  Stuff, Has Beens

  "BWW EXCLUSIVE: Steve Buscemi & Jo Andres on ISSUE Project Room". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. February 28, 2011.

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• In the rural South, the only interesting people were the sexual deviants. Everybody else was able to be part of the mainstream, and could find a way somehow.

  Nell Zink

  People, Interesting, Able

  "Subjects That Interest Most People". Interview with Amy Feltman, logger.believermag.com. July 20, 2015.

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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

  Writing, Scripts, Stills

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I hardly ever read mainstream fiction that deals with life as it is. I like an element of fantasy, something that isn`t quite of the real world.

  Stephen King

  Real, Fiction, Elements

  "Stephen King has called Ira Levin-author of 'Rosemary's". Interview with Cheryl Lavin, articles.chicagotribune.com. April 7, 1991.

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• Homosexuals are entering the mainstream, because they're becoming as boring and as tedious as any other splinter group.

  Dennis Miller

  Groups, Entering, Splinters

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I'm really going off of watching John Waters speak one time and I remember he just kind of talked and it was totally interesting. I wanted to hear about his life and how he got started and when did he think he made it, stupid stuff like that. And what his relationship with the mainstream is because he's so far out there, but then he became part of the mainstream in this weird way. He was really funny, though. Yeah, I have to work on my jokes.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Stupid, Thinking, Water

  Interview with Nina Corcoran, allstonpudding.com.

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• Sailing became one of the mainstreams of my life. I suppose my father was an influence. I remember seeing a photo of him at home sailing a big boat to Bermuda in his 20s. I still have it.

  David Crosby

  Father, Home, Sailing

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• I think Phil Collins is one of the most underrated musicians, singers, performers - he is absolutely amazing, I think, and I think he's probably got a bit of a rough ride occasionally because he became so mainstream and so popular.

  Rick Astley

  Thinking, Musician, Singers

  "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

  Fiction, Reader, Humans

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• Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.

  Aberjhani

  Black, Assumption, Individual

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• I think I'm actually a mainstream, popcorn-eating kid. I've always been that, so I'd sit there watching action movies and American moves before I watch other movies quite often because I am that kid. But I've pushed into the more alternative area because that's where it gets really interesting creatively.

  Eddie Izzard

  Moving, Kids, Thinking

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• Independent documentary isnt beholden to some of the interests that the mainstream media are influenced by. Its a pathway to renegade, independent reporting in an in-depth, investigative fashion, and it can do so with a compassionate lens; it allows people to speak in a way that is more human than the mainstream media approach.

  Josh Fox

  Fashion, Independent, Media

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• When I was a young artist, I liked and was interested in belonging to the mainstream comics group. I didnt introduce myself as an author, but only as a designer.

  David Mazzucchelli

  Artist, Groups, Designer

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• Because of my New Line upbringing, half my heart goes to scrappy independents, and half goes to mainstream, down-the-middle pop culture events. And even with those, to try to keep something fresh and original with them and try to do things that the majors miss.

  Michael De Luca

  Heart, Missing, Trying

  "Producer Michael De Luca Says His Heart Is With the Scrappy Independents". Interview with Scott Timberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 15, 2011.

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• Whenever I want to represent or depict the official version, I will refer to them as 'mathematicians' or 'mathematical physicists' or idiots or something like that. There are no physicists in mainstream 'Physics.' From Newton to Einstein to Hawking, they are all just mathematicians as far as Science and Physics are concerned.

  Bill Gaede

  Want, Idiot, Physics

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