Mainstream Quotes - Page 2

• My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material.

  Jean M. Auel

  Romance, Fiction, Magazines

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• It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.

  Daniel Clowes

  Book, Mean, Adults

  "Clowes Speak" by Tad Friend, July 30, 2001.

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• The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections.

  Fred Barnes

  Giving Up, Winning, Media

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• But I do think its unwise, and it - to build a mosque at the site where 3,000 Americans lost their lives as a result of a terrorist attack. And I think to me it demonstrates that the - that Washington, the White House, the administration, the President himself seems to be disconnected from the mainstream of America.

  John Cornyn

  Thinking, White, America

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• Since the 1960s, mainstream media has searched out and co-opted the most authentic things it could find in youth culture, whether that was psychedelic culture, anti-war culture, blue jeans culture. Eventually heavy metal culture, rap culture, electronica - they'll look for it and then market it back to kids at the mall.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  War, Rap, Kids

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• I don’t see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right-wing, and loyal to the political framework and it’s corporate interests.

  Thom Yorke

  Music, Fighting, Wings

  "Duty of Expression". Interview with Sarah Burton, howardzinn.org. November 23, 2003.

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• Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do.

  Rowan Williams

  Thinking, One Direction, Temptation

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• I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.

  Thom Yorke

  Music, Thinking, Media

  "Truth in the Hands of Artists". Interview with Sarah Burton, www.alternet.org. November 23, 2003.

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• When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now

  Ed Harris

  War, Iraq, Media

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• I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.

  Ang Lee

  Population, World, West

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• I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history.

  Frank Luntz

  People, Passionate, Language

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• I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit.

  Sam Sheppard

  Believe, Media, Marketing

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• Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.

  Thurston Moore

  Culture, Alternatives, Should

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• Its always the minorities who arent a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be.

  Rose Bird

  Majority, Minorities, Limits

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• Im a character actor, and I made a choice when I was young, after Mystic Pizza, not to go for the mainstream stuff, and to do a more eclectic kind of route.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Character, Choices, Eclectic Style

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• Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Feminist, Feminism, Dumb Things

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

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• Five or ten years ago, when it was clear the Internet was becoming a mainstream phenomenon, it was equally clear that a lot of people were being left out and could be left behind

  Steve Case

  Years, People, Becoming

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• Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.

  Dirk Benedict

  Thinking, Hollywood, Today

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• Democrat leaders are not only out of the American mainstream, but are also out of the Democratic mainstream.

  Virginia Foxx

  Leader, Democratic, Democrat

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• Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch.

  Jason Patric

  Hollywood, Film

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• 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

  Sides

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• I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician.

  Dave Van Ronk

  Cutting, Musician, Jazz

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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

  Film, Reason, Should

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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

  Mainstream Society, People, Rewards

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• In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

  Carter Burwell

  Romantic, Hair, Comedy

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