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• For a foreigner, L.A. is such a big, wonderful and weird place that, until you find your niche, you feel a little bit discombobulated.

  David Lyons

  Travel, Littles, Wonderful

  "David Lyons and Summer Glau Interview THE CAPE". Interview, collider.com. January 17, 2011.

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• I'm in that comfortable niche where I'm not that famous and sometimes people do need to put a barrier between them and their followers. When you're real famous you need to do that but I'm not that famous so I don't need that kind of barrier.

  Tony Levin

  Real, People, Needs

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• The key to competing and surviving against Wal-Mart is to focus your business into a niche or pocket where you can leverage your strengths in the local marketplace.

  Michael Bergdahl

  Keys, Focus, Pockets

  Michael Bergdahl (2004). “What I Learned From Sam Walton: How to Compete and Thrive in a Wal-Mart World”, p.191, John Wiley & Sons

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• I found myself declaiming, full flower, for an hour on the "utmost importance and urgency" of Blogging, telling him in no uncertain terms that, especially in a high-end niche business, Blogging is "the premier way" to have "intimate conversations" with his Clients. Funny thing, I believe it!

  Tom Peters

  Funny, Believe, Flower

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• Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches.

  Tom Brokaw

  Media, News, Foxes

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• Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilization - a niche we filled because we got there first, not because we are in any sense optimally adapted to it.

  Nick Bostrom

  Civilization, Firsts, Starting

  Nick Bostrom (2014). “Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies”, p.53, OUP Oxford

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• When 'Supernatural' came out, there were a lot of procedurals and you were either a doctor or a cop or lawyer, otherwise the show didn't stay on TV. And then we came around, and I don't want to say we were trailblazers, but we found our niche.

  Jared Padalecki

  Doctors, Tvs, Want

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• When you compete with Wal-Mart, even if you think you've found a niche don't ever become complacent.

  Michael Bergdahl

  Thinking, Competition, Found

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• The same sort of thing was supposed to happen when performance animation was invented: Everybody thought it would save so much time. But it became its own niche altogether.

  Lev Yilmaz

  Animation, Performances, Happens

  "A Cleaner, faster animation" by Katie Dean, www.wired.com. October 19, 1999.

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• Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche.

  Romola Garai

  Film, Concern, Frivolous

  "The Killer Inside Me: can the violence be justified?" by Romola Garai, Nicci Gerrard, Anna Smith, Mark Kermode, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2010.

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• In the '90s, you couldn't say the word 'nerd' to someone when pitching a show. They would have considered that too niche and wouldn't have listened.

  Chris Hardwick

  Nerd, Pitching, Shows

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• Social media is itself as temporary as any social gathering, nightclub or party. It's the people that matter, not the venue. So when the trend leaders of one social niche or another decide the place everyone is socializing has lost its luster or, more important, its exclusivity, they move on to the next one, taking their followers with them.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Party, Moving, Media

  "Facebook hype will fade" by Douglas Rushkoff, www.cnn.com. January 7, 2011.

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• Buffy the Vampire Slayer showed the whole world, and an entire sprawling industry, that writing monsters and demons and end-of-the-world is not hack-work, it can challenge the best. Joss Whedon raised the bar for every writer - not just genre or niche writers, but every single one of us.

  Russell T Davies

  Writing, Challenges, Vampire

  "Mindy Newell: It Was Twenty Years Ago Today…". www.comicmix.com. April 3, 2017.

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• All brands, whether high-ticket luxury ones such as Cartier or Rolls-Royce or 'masstige' ones with luxe-y overtones but altogether more affordable, all want to grow. Even brands that may have started in a modestly niche design and lifestyle fashion can find themselves under pressure to go global or to sell out at the top.

  Peter York

  Fashion, Luxury, Design

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• A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature.

  Ernst Mayr

  Nature, Science, Community

  Ernst Mayr (1982). “The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance”, p.273, Harvard University Press

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• We live in a cultural milieu ... The idea that culture is our ecological niche is still applicable. The impact and force of natural selection on the human physique are conditioned by the dimensions of culture.

  C. Loring Brace

  Impact, Ideas, Culture

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• From my earliest childhood I nourished and cherished the desire to make a creditable journey in a new country, and write such a respectable account of its natural history as should give me a niche amongst the scientific explorers of the globe I inhabit, and hand my name down as a useful contributor of original matter.

  Joseph Dalton Hooker

  Country, Writing, Science

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• Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it a chance, He even provided a first installment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories.

  Georges Bernanos

  Library, Tiny, Firsts

  Georges Bernanos (1974). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, Doubleday Books

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• Everyone has his own particular talent, niche and interests. Which isn't to say that you shouldn't try new genres or styles or explore forms other than the ones you're most comfortable with. But you should be willing to recognize that when writers try to make themselves into something they aren't or, more important, don't want to be ... they aren't going to be doing their best work.

  Kevin Alexander

  Writing, Style, Important

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• I praise CBS for taking a risk, which is always the price you pay for opportunity. This is not standard movie of the week storytelling. I think movies of the week have fallen into a niche and that isn't my niche

  Tom Selleck

  Opportunity, Thinking, Risk

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• So it's more the musician in me that makes me stretch out and try different things more than anything. But, like a lot of guitar players, I have one certain niche that's my thing that I'm better at than the others

  Lee Ann Womack

  Player, Guitar, Trying

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• My first year in L.A. I felt lost in that big city. It's easy to be tumbled around and not figure out where you fit in even when you find your little niche.

  Steve Aoki

  Years, Cities, Littles

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• Whenever one or more components of a company's business model changes, new business models are created for supporting companies. The changes might involve niches served, new marketing angles or improved value propositions.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Marketing, Might, Angle

  Marc Ostrofsky (2012). “Get Rich Click: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Castle Rock and New Line each have their strengths, but the great thing about New Line is that they are a real focused-market, niche-market player who understand franchises. They probably understand the franchise business in motion pictures better than anyone else out there.

  Fred Seibert

  Real, Player, Rocks

  "Q&A with Hanna-Barbera president Fred Seibert". Interview with Phil Gallo and Richard Setlowe, variety.com. March 23, 1994.

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• Being behind a camera, in front of the camera, is my own little deconstructionist niche.

  Joshua Leonard

  Cameras, Littles, Behinds

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