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“Electronic music is really weird right, because it is bleeding into the mainstream, but, at the same time, it's fashion.”

Fashion Music Is Mainstream Bleeding Really Weird Electronic Music

Author:Nigel Godrich

“I had thought comics could only be one thing, and that was what mainstream comics were selling us. And the undergrounders proved anything you had in your head, as long as you had the skill to put it down on paper, was fair game. And I started filling sketchbooks with my own comics.”

Long Games My Own One Thing Skills Paper Fairs Selling Mainstream Filling Fair Game Sketchbooks

Author:Stephen R. Bissette

“There's the exciting part about comedy - if you catch an act just before they go mainstream, that's the best. After they hit the mainstream, everything gets watered down a little bit.”

Ifs Littles Bits Comedy Little Bit Exciting Mainstream

Author:Tommy Chong

“I was in a band in the '90s called Bikini Kill, and we were so freaked out about documentation then, and there was the whole thing, not just about the male gaze, but that people were going to misrepresent you... a kind fear of the mainstream that a lot of us had.”

People Kind Whole Band Males Mainstream Bikinis Documentation

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“There is a clear intent to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream of the media and the nation's political life.”

Thinking Christian Political Nations Religious Clear Media Mainstream Political Life

Author:Erwin W. Lutzer

“I sense a general hostility toward Christianity among the literary and media establishments in our country. There is a tendency to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream, to marginalize it and make it look like a product of 'fringe' groups.”

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“I sometimes have the sense that I live my life as a writer with my nose pressed against the wide, shiny plate glass window of the"mainstream" culture. The world seems full of straight, large-circulation, slick periodicals which wouldn't think of reviewing my book and bookstores which will never order it.”

Thinking World Book Sometimes Seems Order Culture Window Glasses Wide Noses Mainstream Plates Living My Life Bookstores Circulation I Live My Life Slick Mainstream Culture

Book:Books & Life

Source: Books & Life

“Radicalization does not happen to young people with a strong grounding in the American Muslim mainstream; increasingly, it happens online, and sometimes abroad, among the isolated and disaffected.”

People Doe Sometimes Happens Young Religion Strong Ethics Terrorism Online Isolated Mainstream Grounding

Author:Suhaib Webb

“I have no bones to pick and no fight with society. And I'm willing to be and interested in being in the mainstream of society.”

Fighting Willing Picks Bones Mainstream

Author:Christopher Reeve

“By the time I was 18, I had absorbed punk rock from America, Britain, and the West Coast. All of it was so dark and weird and different and cool and hot and sexy and rebellious. It was a fist-in-the-air kind of rebellion that I wasn't getting from the '70s mainstream.”

Kind Different America Dark Air Rocks Hot West Sexy Britain Rebellion Mainstream Punk Coast Fists Rebellious Punk Rock West Coast Hot And Sexy

Author:Michael Stipe

“It's always surprised me that mainstream America had the good taste to like R.E.M. It doesn't have the digestible quality the general public tends to look for in its favorite musicians.”

Looks America Quality Taste Musician Mainstream Good Taste General Public

Author:Christopher Bollen

“I'm very fussy about how my records sound, but I'm very aware that because of the way they sound, I will never be a big-selling, mainstream artist because the public has gotten conditioned to hearing pop music in a certain way. And I don't do it that way.”

Way Bigs Artist Certain Sound Records Pops Hearing Selling Mainstream Pop Music Fussy

Author:Nick Lowe

“WikiLeaks serves as a back-up for those who want to tell the truth about the inner workings of government when the mainstream media is not willing or taking too long to publish.”

Want Long Government Media Willing Telling The Truth Mainstream Publish Mainstream Media Wikileaks

Author:Daniel Ellsberg

“Howard Chaykin was one of the few who dared to make mainstream comics different back in the eighties; it was guys like him, Alan Moore and Frank Miller who made sure there'd be no going back. Howard's work on The Shadow is amongst his very best: razor-sharp character work, sizzling dialogue and an unsurpassed sense of layout and design.”

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Author:Garth Ennis

“Maurice Kenny stands at the forefront of his generation. Few writers of any ethnicity are destined to be remembered in the mainstream of literary history; I believe that Kenny's contributions as a poet are among those few. He writes from the center, as our Elders would say.”

Writing Believe I Believe Generations Poet Remembered Contribution Mainstream Destined Elders Ethnicity Kenny

Author:Wendy Rose

“Contrary to popular belief, the Loch Ness Monster is not a dinosaur -- it's a huge mutant duck, a top researcher claims.... Most mainstream Nessie researchers consider Gluber's duck theory to be horse feathers and are trying to blast it out of the water.”

Trying Belief Water Theory Huge Claims Horse Contrary Monsters Ducks Mainstream Feathers Blast Dinosaurs Researchers Mutants Contrary To Popular Belief Loch Ness Monster

Author:Murphy J. Foster, Jr.

“Don't rebel against the mainstream only to conform to the underground.”

Rebel Mainstream Conform

Author:Tomas Kalnoky

“I am so all over the place with my music taste, it's ridiculous. It is! I mean, I find myself listening to weird things like hardcore techno music and then I'll be listening to mainstream hip-hop music. But it's like I am so crazy with my music taste. I'll listen to a song, I'll become obsessed with it, and then I'm on to the next one. So it's just very inconsistent.”

Mean Song Next Crazy Listening Taste Hip Hop Ridiculous Hips Obsessed Hops Mainstream Inconsistent The Next One Weird Things Hardcore Techno Hip Hop Music

Author:Taylor Lautner

“I think I'm actually a mainstream, popcorn-eating kid. I've always been that, so I'd sit there watching action movies and American moves before I watch other movies quite often because I am that kid. But I've pushed into the more alternative area because that's where it gets really interesting creatively.”

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Author:Eddie Izzard

“Anytime something makes money, no matter how outré, it's instantly mainstream. A good example is rock 'n' roll. When rock 'n' roll was first played to a wide audience it was considered the devil's music.”

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Author:John Landis

“Infiltrating the mainstream was a natural extension of my street art. I've always tried to communicate ideas to the public as directly as possible.”

Art Ideas Natural Streets Communicate Mainstream Extensions Street Art

Author:Eric Drooker

“All the things I used to count on to get my music out there - record companies, they're all gone. And radio stations, they're gone - they're completely controlled by the government. If they're not controlled by the government, they're controlled by a programmer who's controlled by the government. Mainstream radio is suspect. You can't trust it.”

Ifs Government Used Company Gone Records Radio Stations Suspects Controlled Mainstream Programmers Record Companies Radio Stations

Author:Neil Young

“Hardly any filmmakers can just make anything they want. Obviously, there are some exceptions, like Steven Spielberg, but he has that mainstream mentality and the kinds of films he loves to make are the kind that appeal to this big, mass audience.”

Want Kind Bigs Film Audience Mass Appeals Filmmaker Exception Mentality Mainstream

Author:Catherine Hardwicke

“We are a very like-minded group, the senior members of this government. The outliers are not very far away from the mainstream.”

Government Groups Members Mainstream Far Away Senior Outliers

Author:Tony Abbott

“When bands come from that underground scene and go into the mainstream, people just hate it. And it blows my mind. If you're saying you don't like what pop culture is, then change it. And when someone does make an effort to change it, everyone rebels against it and hates it. You can't win. People just want that division to exist. They don't want that division to go away.”

People Ifs Want Mind Doe Hate Culture Winning Effort Scene Band Blow Pops Going Away Division Rebel Mainstream Pop Culture Can't Win

Author:Laura Jane Grace

“It's depressing to see blacks wanting to dive into the mainstream of American commercial life. They come from a magnificent African culture based on aesthetics, and they all want to become fort builders like the vicious people who originally enslaved them.”

People Want Culture Mainstream Depressing Magnificent Vicious Aesthetics Builder Forts African Culture

Author:George Carlin

“Before I moved into the mainstream of American movies, I wrote a script as an experiment. I wanted to get very far away from the clichés about the three-act play - structure, development.”

Play Wanted Three Development Moved Structure Scripts Experiments Mainstream Far Away American Movie

Author:Jack Nicholson

“I like to tell untold true stories, or the lesser-known aspects of larger, familiar stories. I think people or topics that are slightly on the edge or outside the mainstream often reveal more than better-known stories.”

People Thinking Stories Known Aspect Edges Familiar Mainstream Topics True Story Lesser Known

Author:Nancy Kates

“In the mainstream film market, certainly in television, sex is handled fairly discreetly. I think the abuse of extraordinarily graphic violence and language presses much closer to the tolerance of public taste.”

Thinking Film Language Sex Violence Television Taste Abuse Presses Tolerance Mainstream Graphic

Author:Charlton Heston

“When critics ask you if you feel vindicated by other critics - I didn't like critics then, and I don't like them now. There you go. I've always been outside the mainstream, and it stayed that way.”

Ifs Way Feels Asks Critics Mainstream Vindicated

Author:Lou Reed

“I am interested in challenging the mainstream ideas of what is beautiful and what is acceptable.”

Ideas Beautiful Challenges Acceptable Mainstream

Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“I love to read about music and about art, but I don't try and take things about mythology or guidelines as to how I'm to behave as an artist. It's the realm of intellectual debate. Actually, more and more my direction is trying to get further away from being self-conscious of what the parameters are of the mainstream, where it intersects with the underground.”

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Author:Emily Haines

“My basic approach is to recognize that mainstream legal theories of contract have been muddied by unlibertarian and positivistic conceptions of law and rights. Questions about what rights are "alienable" or not, loose talk about how promises should be "binding," etc., highlight the need for clarity in this area. In my view, to sort these issues out one needs a very clear and consistent understanding of the nature of property rights and ownership.”

“My spiritual path has largely been Christianity - a label that I embraced and then rejected and have partially embraced again, as my understanding of Christianity has changed over time. When I accepted the mainstream, dogmatic definition of Christianity there came a point when I had to say, "Well, if that's what a Christian is, I'm not one."”

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Author:Tim DeChristopher

“It wasn't until I started reading the history of religion that I understood that the definition of Christianity has shifted in many different directions over time, and the mainstream view today certainly doesn't have any exclusive ownership of what being a Christian means. Realizing that freed me to use the terminology without needing to be tied down to it.”

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Author:Tim DeChristopher

“I was trained as a political scientist and the profession bores me, to be frank. I am truly bored by mainstream work in my discipline, which strikes me as a kind of medieval scholasticism of a special kind.”

Kind Political Special Discipline Scientist Profession Strikes Bored Mainstream Frank Bores Medieval Scholasticism

Author:James C. Scott

“It's hard to separate art from artists so transgender musicians will never be mainstream until transpeople are looked at as notable as maybe redheads.”

Art Hard Artist Musician Mainstream Transgender Notable

Author:Willam Belli

“Damn it, if just 5% of people got motivated in some direction, and it doesn't necessarily have to be what I believe in, but if they just got motivated and stopped getting their political ideologies from the mainstream media, they would go out and figure out what they want.”

People Ifs Want Believe Political I Believe Media Figures I Believe In Ideology Damn Motivated Mainstream Mainstream Media Political Ideology

Author:Alex Jones

“Insider can be more ludicrous. How did I ever end up [as one]? Carsick [Waters's book on hitchhiking] was on the New York Times best-seller list for five weeks. [One of the characters was] a singing asshole that does a duet with Connie Francis! Times have changed. That's mainstream, in a weird way.”

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Author:John Waters

“There is no better example of the weakness of our dominant medicine than its clearly ineffective War On Cancer. By the same token, there is no better example of the superiority of complementary, alternative medicine than its management of this dread disease. We are equally concerned about whether mainstream medicine's demand for proof works to maintain it at its current level of ineptitude.”

“I don't like anything in the mainstream and they don't like me.”

Humor Funny Comedy Like Me Mainstream Don't Like Me Revolutionary Ideas

Author:Bill Hicks

“The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.”

Should Novel Information Curiosity Mainstream

Author:Richard Powers

“A lot of what used to be known as gay culture - broadly speaking, homoeroticism and being camp - has been brought into mainstream culture. I think we should be moving to an era where it's just sex.”

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Author:Neil Tennant

“I want to have an ending where people say: "That's the most shocking ending I've ever seen in a mainstream horror film."”

People Want Film Horror Mainstream Shocking Horror Film

Author:Eli Roth

“The difference is in Hostel it's in the theatre - it's in public but it's in a private place. You have to actively make a choice to want to go see it. It's not being forced on anyone. Whereas 24 you can be flipping channels and it's right there in your living room. Anyone has access to that. But that just shows how mainstream it is and how people are seeing this stuff on YouTube. People are scared of it. This is a subject matter that everyone's talking about and everyone's thinking about, particularly in American culture.”

People Thinking Want Matter Shows Choices Culture Stuff Differences Rooms Talking Seeing Subjects Scared Theatre Access Mainstream American Culture Youtube Subject Matter Living Room

Author:Eli Roth

“I don't think '90s music was as significant as '60s music in terms of changing the world, but it was significant, and I think it was similarly disillusioning when you realize the mainstream just views it as like a curiosity.”

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Author:Billy Corgan

“It's what the mainstream does - they absorb things and they blunt the power of it. And so the next generation and the next generation has to become more shocking and more provocative in order to get any rise out of anybody.”

Doe Order Next Generations Mainstream Shocking Next Generation Provocative Blunt

Author:Billy Corgan

“Here's why I like geek culture: People like what they like because they like it. They're not trying to fit into any mainstream likes or dislikes.”

People Trying Culture Fit Likes Dislike Mainstream Geek Trying To Fit In

Author:Kristen Bell

“People might look at you as super-weird, but if that's your obsession, go for it. I do like a lot of mainstream stuff, and sometimes I also like different stuff. I tend to always root for the underdog.”

People Ifs Looks Different Sometimes Might Stuff Roots Obsession Mainstream Underdog

Author:Kristen Bell

“Publishing has gone very middlebrow. It's turned its back on legacy of modernism and gone into a humanist mode. When people go through art school they are exposed to the history of the avant-garde, and there's a general understanding that what you're doing as an artist is to a large extent, not just regurgitating that history, but engaging with it. There's this denial of that in the mainstream publishing world.”

People World Art School Artist Understanding Gone Denial Legacy Humanist Exposed Mainstream Publishing Engaging Modernism Art School Avant Garde

Author:Tommy McCarthy

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