Pop Culture Quotes - Page 7

• One of the things I think is important about 'Watchmen' is that it have resonance within cinematic pop culture as well as superhero culture.

  Zack Snyder

  Thinking, Superhero, Important

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. August 01, 2007.

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• I believe that pop culture is just, like, so ready for 'Watchmen.' We tried so hard to ride that wave between satire and reality, and all the things that make you still care about the character, but you don't miss the commentary about them.

  Zack Snyder

  Believe, Character, Reality

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• Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.

  Aisha Tyler

  Culture, Want, Failing

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• Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.

  Aisha Tyler

  Culture, Pops

  Aisha Tyler (2005). “Swerve: Reckless Observations of a Postmodern Girl”, Plume Books

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• If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might make dismissive and ignorant mention of your book. If you write romance, forget about it. You'll be lucky if they spell your name right on the bestseller list.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, Writing, Names

  "Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner Speak Out On Franzen Feud: HuffPost Exclusive". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2010.

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• I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.

  St. Vincent

  Culture, Lowbrow, Pops

  "A Glimpse of St. Vincent". Interview with Nell Alk, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2011.

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• You have to be respectful of pop culture, because people interpret it in the way they want.

  Jaleel White

  People, Culture, Want

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

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• I do not think that a museum needs to engage with pop culture in order to make itself interesting to museumgoers. Museums are already interesting and engaging with pop culture for its own sake is just a quick way to seem and become dated.

  John Hodgman

  Thinking, Order, Museums

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• For those whose ganglia were formed pre-TV, the mimetic deployment of pop-culture icons seems at best an annoying tic and at worst a dangerous vapidity that compromises fiction's seriousness by dating it out of the Platonic Always, where it ought to reside.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Icons, Dating, Deployment

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• Michael Jackson will always be my favorite pop musician; he was for years and years until his death, which was horrible to me. So I like pop culture. But to me, even if it's popular, there is a quality in the music you have to be able to appreciate.

  Michel Gondry

  Years, Appreciate, Quality

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• For my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. She's a less dangerous version of what was so cool about pop culture in the 80s. Back then it was so gay and so punk in so many ways.

  Beth Ditto

  Eye, Gay, Way

  "In bed with Beth Ditto". Interview with Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2011.

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• Because I didn't have any queer, lesbian, female role models I hated my own femininity and had to look deep within myself to create an identity that worked for me. Pop culture just doesn't hand us enough variety to choose from.

  Beth Ditto

  Hands, Female Role Models, Identity

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2008.

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• The animated bug has bitten pop culture. It makes me feel happy and free. When you don't act seriously, you can make up your own rules.

  Nicki Minaj

  Culture, Bugs, Pops

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• I think every artist subconsciously wants to evolve themselves. Sometimes they get stuck in ruts because of pop culture, peer pressure, stuff like that. But what excites me most is exploring my own musical insights and expanding upon them.

  Steve Vai

  Thinking, Artist, Musical

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People always say I write a lot of pop culture references. Can somebody please count the pop culture references in 'Firefly?' Because I don't know how to put this to you, but there was one. I referenced The Beatles in the pilot.

  Joss Whedon

  Writing, Firefly, People

  "Joss Whedon on Comic Books, Abusing Language and the Joys of Genre". Interview with Adam Rogers, www.wired.com. May 3, 2012.

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• I hate recording all the shows for the week in one day, because I want to be able to mention current events and pop culture. If Madonna punches Britney in the face today, I want to reference that on 'Wine Library TV' tomorrow. Monday's episode is always the best, because it's hot off the press.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Monday, Hate, Wine

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• Since we launched the original 'Pop Idol' in England, I've remained close with Simon Fuller. Working as executive producer on 'American idol' for its first seven years not only was an inspirational journey into the heart of American pop culture, it opened my eyes to the untapped potential of the incredibly dynamic young people in this world.

  Nigel Lythgoe

  Inspirational, Heart, Eye

  "Nigel Lythgoe officially returning to ‘American Idol’" by Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. August 05, 2010.

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• It's part of our pop culture to give animals human personalities and talents.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Animal, Giving, Personality

  "How Smart Are Animals?". "NOVA scienceNOW", www.pbs.org. February 9, 2011.

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• There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swept over the fuzzy surface of popular culture. But these days, pop culture seems to have gotten fuzzier and fuzzier; notoriety comes and goes in the snap of a finger.

  Susan Orlean

  Track, Mind, Giants

  "William, Kate, and Justin Bieber" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. April 28, 2011.

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• The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently by TV.

  Tom Shales

  Long, Age, Culture

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• I'm fairly out of the loop when it comes to pop culture.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Culture, Pops, Loops

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

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• Most of the time, criticism that takes pop culture seriously involves performing some kind of symbolic analysis, decoding the work to demonstrate the way it represents some other aspect of society.

  Steven Johnson

  Criticism, Analysis, Culture

  Steven Johnson (2006). “Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter”, p.9, Penguin

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• Traditionally nerd-based culture is now a big sector of pop culture.

  Chris Hardwick

  Nerd, Culture, Bigs

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• Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.

  James Wolcott

  Night, Vampire, Dawn

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• Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream.

  James Wolcott

  Men, Mad, Iconography

  "Prime Time’s Graduation" by James Wolcott, www.vanityfair.com. May 2012.

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