Mainstream Quotes - Page 15

• Mainstream media would convince you that there's commercial culture and that's all - but this other music is still here.

  Michelle Shocked

  Media, Culture, Music Is

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• If you stay in the mainstream of life, in other words, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters all of our lives by the time we're in our middle years, when we've experienced a few deaths and read a few headlines. Famine, poverty, abuse, you can't keep that all blocked out. If you let those things teach you, influence you, change you, those are the events that transition you without you even knowing it to become more compassionate. In other words, you hold onto your values, but you do it much more inclusively, humbly and in an open ended way. Suffering takes you there.

  Richard Rohr

  Years, Knowing, Abuse

  Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com

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• Sometimes it's just the creative intent of an artist or band that inspires me. I'm generally drawn to artists or bands that put themselves out on a limb somewhat and do something that infuriates both the mainstream and the indie purists, but that can't necessarily be classed as either. To me it seems somewhat convenient to be on either end of that scale.

  St. Lucia

  Artist, Creative, Inspire

  Source: www.planetnotion.com

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• The history of pop is a progression of underground styles going mainstream, so there's nothing unusual about the White Stripes or Franz Ferdinand selling records.

  Sasha Frere-Jones

  White, Stripes, Style

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• The dynamics of the Taliban now appear to be very different and complex, in both Afghanistan and Pakistan, as they attack governments and mainstream parties.

  Noam Chomsky

  Party, Government, Different

  Source: www.dawn.com

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• I want the ones that stood up for the Tea Party when the Tea Party was being pilloried by the mainstream media. I like the Bachmanns and the Palins and the Wests and I like the Herman Cains, I like Thaddeus McCotter, I like fighters, and I don't like the poll-tested ones.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Party, Media, Tea

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• Certainly I'm participating in an already established and awesome tradition, but it's a tradition that sort of shoots up and through the mainstream in short bursts and pulses and then gets diluted. Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson shot up and then got sucked back down underground under more entertaining and less radical versions of body and self - poetry and prose that posited bodies in more perfect union with good citizenship.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Self, Perfect, Body

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Non-mainstream people seem to balk at the idea of 12-step. A lot of us think 12-step recovery means sitting in a church basement full of Republicans and Christians who drink to much.

  Bucky Sinister

  Christian, Mean, Recovery

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism.

  Kate Zambreno

  Criticism, Nonfiction, Given

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm a progressive. What I find is that a subsection within the left that instead of standing for consistency in progressive values, so feminism as applied to mainstream society, as well as within minority communities, gay rights to mainstream society as well as within minority communities.

  Maajid Nawaz

  Gay, Mainstream Society, Rights

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Look, there's no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years, and for someone like me who's always tried to make a living at it, it's been great, I'm very grateful for it. But at the same time, it's not a subculture-y thing anymore; it's something that's in the New York Times and the New Yorker.

  Adrian Tomine

  New York, Grateful, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm not sure what kept me from the mainstream. I thought it was because I was too hard to pin down genre-wise.

  Princess Superstar

  Wise, Genre, Pins

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I guess in general, because it's such a popular trend in mainstream American pop, that there's been some kind of negative reaction to it. But at the same time, it's a really interesting effect and really interesting texture, and a lot of credit goes to Rostam for producing our music, and all the work that he puts into it, and just trying different things. Ezra did a vocal take, Rostam threw auto-tune on it, and we all liked the way it sounded.

  Chris Baio

  Auto Tune, Trying Different Things, Interesting

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• I think accessibility is what often denies horror its deserved attention. So it all depends on the execution and whether mainstream audiences can accept it.

  Bryan Fuller

  Thinking, Execution, Attention

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I like Plutarch because I've read him forever, and I know that he's incredibly funky, even though his mainstream image is as Mr. Unfunky.

  John D'Agata

  Forever, Funky, Knows

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When independent films break through and actually make it into any level of mainstream-ness or get seen by people or find a life actually in theaters, it's extraordinary. And it doesn't happen that often.

  Karen Allen

  Independent, Break Through, People

  "Karen Allen on The Sandlot, liking the fourth Indiana Jones, and being typecast". Interview with Pete Croatto, www.avclub.com. February 13, 2016.

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• More than most, I believe I'm highly attuned to how heresies eventually become mainstream belief systems and how the vast majority of people who consider themselves 'edgy' are those who only embraced radical ideas LONG after it became safe for them to do so.

  Jim Goad

  Believe, Ideas, Long

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• The risk for me has to do with the nudity aspects. I'm an American actress in mainstream movies, and I would like to always be able to do them. For some reason, nudity is perceived differently here than it is elsewhere, and I didn't want to lose any American audience that I was building.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Risk, Able, Actresses

  Source: www.discdish.com

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• A century ago mainstream science was still quite happy to countenance vital and mental powers which had a 'downwards' causal influence on the physical realm in a straightforwardly interactionist way. It was only in the middle of the last century that science finally concluded that there are no such non-physical forces. At which point a whole pile of smart philosophers (Feigl, Smart, Putnam, Davidson, Lewis) quickly pointed out that mental, biological and social phenomena must themselves be physical, in order to produce the physical effects that they do.

  David Papineau

  Smart, Order, Way

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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• A lot of times, mainstream critics are much tougher on small, independent movies because they can be.

  John C. Reilly

  Independent, Critics

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• On domestic policy, Donald Trump agreed with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the Wall Street bailout, the TARP bailout of big bank. I think the government ought to be standing with mainstream, with working men and women. And then you put on top of that the ethical issues, whether it is refusing to release his taxes. And that's a real problem.

  Ted Cruz

  Wall, Real, Men

  "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. February 28, 2016.

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• There's always going to be a fight between mainstream and underground because the mainstream is a very small bubble, and the underground scene is a very small bubble, and they both see themselves as secret societies.

  Dawn Angelique

  Fighting, Secret, Scene

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm interested in the way the whole cultural landscape can shift over time. Okay, this will seem like a silly example, but look at the whole discourse around "selling out," a concept people say is irrelevant because there's no more distinction between mainstream and underground, inside and outside (which I don't really believe, but that's another issue).

  Astra Taylor

  Believe, Silly, Issues

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I agree that a lot of mainstream corporate sold hip-hop is self-hating.

  Bakari Kitwana

  Hate, Self, Hip Hop

  Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com. August 15, 2005.

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• My hope is to get young people to think about ways that they can translate hip-hop's great cultural movement into political power that can change the conditions for America's young, so that young people upon graduating from high school who don't have economic means to go to college can realize other options beyond joining the military and fighting in wars that enrich corporations like Halliburton which should feel guilty about profiteering off of a war that is being fought on the backs of those locked out of America's mainstream economy.

  Bakari Kitwana

  Military, War, School

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