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• Between parts I was too old for and roles that were too overwhelming, out of reach then for my voice. I carved out a niche with the Wagnerian repertoire since I am attracted by its theatrical intensity.

  Placido Domingo

  Voice, Roles, Intensity

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• The online musical universe has become Balkanized, with many sites focusing on minute niches. That works well for reaching very specific demographics, which is wonderful for advertising, but it flies in the face of the common wisdom that people's tastes have become more diverse as music of any description has become a mouse-click away.

  Michael Azerrad

  Wisdom, People, Musical

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• I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.

  Hank Azaria

  Hollywood, Naked, Foreigners

  "One-Man Show: Hank Azaria". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. March 14, 2012.

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• I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry.

  Ava DuVernay

  School, Film, Industry

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

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• What's the shelf life of a 1931 movie? If it still exists, there will always be film buffs and a niche audience who will want to see it. But in terms of people even understanding in common usage, some of the words we use to describe these movies, I don't know how long that's going to last.

  Joe Dante

  Long, People, Understanding

  "24 hours of horror with Joe Dante". Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. October 31, 2012.

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• I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, not via classical music like it's supposed to be. To me it's the same, it doesn't make any difference.

  Danny Elfman

  Thinking, Differences, Understanding

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• We would much prefer to see ownership in the hands of the Maple Group, if only because we would much rather see Canadian ownership of our stock exchange. What we are first of all interested in is making sure that Montreal is able to preserve that niche or expertise.

  Jean Charest

  Hands, Groups, Able

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• I don't want to make niche-oriented music.

  Lady Gaga

  Want

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• Deep Purple is a damn good band and we've made a niche in rock 'n' roll history. Maybe not a huge one but enough to be very proud of.

  Jon Lord

  Rocks, Purple, Rock N Roll

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

  Joshua Leonard

  Cameras, Littles, Behinds

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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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• 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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• You never really know if it's going to happen or not do you but the vision was always for [Karen Walker] to be a global niche luxury product.

  Karen Walker

  Luxury, Vision, Walkers

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• I think that with the Internet, it has given a lot of people the opportunity to get themselves out there to the masses. But it's easy to group everyone that's on the Internet together. I try to cross and jump around between genres and different styles, kind of find my own niche.

  Mac Miller

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In Paris there are few changes; one always finds one's niche there when one returns - no matter how long one may have been away.

  Janet Scudder

  Paris, Long, May

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• In fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human race.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Successful, Race, Temples

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• You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else; only you're unexplained as yet -- you've not got your niche in creation. ~ The Well of Loneliness, 1928

  Radclyffe Hall

  Loneliness, People, Mad

  Title of book (1928)

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• You want to figure out how you want to play the guitar; what your niche would be. Well you just start digging deeper. When you're digging deeper in rock and roll you're on a freight train heading straight for the blues.

  Jack White

  Rocks, Guitar, Rock And Roll

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• By and large, the Healing Dream is not the defender of our waking goals-material achievement, perfect romance, a modest niche in history-but an advocate-general for the soul, whose aims may be diametrically different... The nourishment of the dreamworld is a reciprocal affair: as we provide for it, it provides for us.

  Marc Ian Barasch

  Dream, Healing, Perfect

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• Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

  Randolph Bourne

  Anger, Society, Likes

  Randolph Silliman Bourne (1992). “The Radical Will: Selected Writings, 1911-1918”, p.133, Univ of California Press

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• We remain unconvinced that consumer appetite for mobile TV services exists outside of niche segments.

  Phil Taylor

  Tvs, Appetite, Consumers

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