“Sometimes people think that that you are going softer, or you are going mainstream, but that's not true. It's way more true to change your style.” PeopleThinkingWaySometimesStyleMainstream Author:Neige
“Trans stories have now entered the mainstream in this fantastic way, but the most important thing is what follows from that is hopefully a shift in the experience of trans people - so that there's more acceptance in the culture to the issues they face and more support.” PeopleWayImportantStoriesFacesCultureSupportIssuesAcceptanceImportant ThingsHopefullyFantasticMainstreamTrans Author:Tom Hooper
“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.” SelfBodyPerfectShotsTraditionUnionsVersionsRadicalProseMainstreamEntertainingCitizenshipPulseParticipatingEmilyWaltGood CitizenGood Citizenship Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“While a lot of people want to join the left to react against the mainstream or right, I in many ways react against the left - not a lot of its fundamental commitments, but its often dismal tone, righteousness, defeatism, etc.” PeopleWayWantLeftCommitmentFundamentalsToneEtcRighteousnessMainstream Author:Rebecca Solnit
“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.” PeopleThinkingMeanIdeasSeemsChristianChurchStepsDrinkRepublicanSittingRecoveryMainstreamBasementsVery Mean12 Step Recovery12 Step Author:Bucky Sinister
“I agree that a lot of mainstream corporate sold hip-hop is self-hating.” SelfHateAgreeHip HopHipsCorporateHopsMainstream Author:Bakari Kitwana
“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.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsShouldMeanWarSchoolAmericaYoungPoliticalFightingRealizingEconomyEconomicConditionsMilitaryMovementCollegeHigh SchoolHip HopGuiltyHipsCorporationsHopsGraduatesMainstreamLockedTranslateJoiningPolitical PowerGraduating High SchoolJoining The Military Author:Bakari Kitwana
“For me, the part of reporting that's the most rewarding and energizing is just hearing directly from people whose voices haven't often been heard, or incorporated into mainstream media. That stuff is really, really gratifying, and so to realize that you could make a career of that part of it, that appealed to me.” PeopleStuffVoiceRealizingCareersHeardMediaHavensHearingMainstreamMainstream MediaEnergizing Author:Sarah Stillman
“And it's always the same kind of artist, I think, who has more enjoyment being slightly on the outside of things, who doesn't want to be sucked into the tyranny of the mainstream. Because once you get sucked into that, you're dead as an artist.” ThinkingWantKindArtistTyrannyEnjoymentMainstream Author:David Bowie
“The fact remains that books that really put gay people in the center, and especially books that do so in a way that is sexually explicit, tend not to get a great deal of mainstream attention: they don't tend to sell well, and they don't tend to win major awards. This makes the occasional exception, like Alan Hollinghurst, all the more remarkable.” PeopleWayWellsBookFactsWinningDealsAttentionGayMajorsRemainsSellsRemarkableExceptionAwardsMainstreamOccasionalSexuallyGay PeopleExplicit Author:Garth Greenwell
“It is ludicrous to believe that he meant nuclear weapons can be used. It is truly fearful to see how the mainstream media in the west can construct an adversary and that there are so few dissenting voices.” BelieveUsedVoiceMediaWeaponsWestNuclearFearfulMainstreamNuclear WeaponsConstructsAdversariesMainstream Media Author:Mohammad Marandi
“Americans should know that Iranians are just as decent, human and rational as other human beings. Sadly, the mainstream media in the U.S. regularly fails to recognize and reflect this.” KnowsShouldHumansHuman BeingsFailingMediaRationalDecentMainstreamMainstream MediaBeing Sad Author:Mohammad Marandi
“The radical is simply being given more room in the mainstream. And I think young people - I'm talking about the very young millennials - they are bored by so much so fast and have such fast big brains, that they won't digest lazy uninteresting work in the way my generation might have. This is a great opportunity for those on the fringe to be less on the fringe perhaps.” PeopleThinkingWayBigsMightYoungOpportunityGivenRoomsBrainTalkingGenerationsRadicalBoredLazyMainstreamFringeMy GenerationGreat OpportunityMillennials Author:Porochista Khakpour
“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).” PeopleWayBelieveLooksWholeSeemsIssuesExampleConceptsOkaySillySellingLandscapeDistinctionMainstreamDiscourseIrrelevantSelling OutInside And Outside Author:Astra Taylor
“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.” FightingSecretSceneBubblesMainstreamSecret Society Author:Dawn Angelique
“The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism.” GivenNovelCriticismHarderMemoirNonfictionMainstream Author:Kate Zambreno
“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.” WellsValuesLeftCommunityRightsFeminismGayStandingMinoritiesProgressiveMainstreamConsistencyGay RightsMainstream Society Author:Maajid Nawaz
“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.” YearsLooksLastsCultureNew YorkGratefulMovedLike MeMainstreamAmerican CultureNew York TimesNew YorkersSubculture Author:Adrian Tomine
“I'm not sure what kept me from the mainstream. I thought it was because I was too hard to pin down genre-wise.” HardWiseGenreNot SureMainstreamPins Author:Princess Superstar
“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.” WayTryingKindDifferentInterestingEffectsNegativePopsCreditReactionsTunesDifferent ThingsTrendsMainstreamVocalTextureReally InterestingTrying Different ThingsAuto TuneNegative Reactions Author:Chris Baio
“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.” ThinkingAttentionAcceptingAudienceDependsHorrorDenyMainstreamExecutionAccessibility Author:Bryan Fuller
“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.” KnowsForeverMainstreamFunky Author:John D'Agata
“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.” PeopleHappensFilmLevelsBreakTheaterIndependentExtraordinaryMainstreamBreak ThroughIndependent Film Author:Karen Allen
“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.” WantReasonAbleLosesAudienceRiskBuildingAspectActressesMainstreamElsewhereNudity Author:Amanda Seyfried
“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.” WayStillsWholeLastsOrderForceSocialInfluenceMiddleEffectsCenturyProduceSmartPhilosopherRealmsMainstreamCountenanceMental PowerPhysical Force Author:David Papineau
“A lot of times, mainstream critics are much tougher on small, independent movies because they can be.” IndependentCriticsMainstream Author:John C. Reilly
“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.” ThinkingMenRealProblemBigsGovernmentIssuesStreetsPolicyWallOughtTrumpTaxesMen And WomenStandingClintonReleaseBarackEthicalMainstreamReal ProblemsWorking ManBailoutsDomestic PolicyEthical IssuesTarp Author:Ted Cruz
“I had seen the gay social chronicle done abundantly and done very well. And I didn't want to do any more of that myself, I wanted us to be included in the popular mainstream of entertainment fiction.” WantWellsDoneWantedSocialFictionGayEntertainmentMainstreamChronicles Author:Christopher Rice
“I saw what I could [in Mexico City], but we rarely got anything other than big, mainstream American films.” BigsFilmCitiesSawsMexicoMainstreamAmerican FilmMexico City Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“Of course, there's always one theater that shows some kind of European film. Now, fortunately, you have DVDs, so it's possible to get anything you want within a few hours. In those days, it was virtually impossible to get Italian films, or German films, or whatever. So I grew up with very standard, mainstream films.” WantKindShowsFilmCoursesHoursImpossibleGrewGrew UpStandardsTheaterItalianMainstreamDvds Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“I don't know if the podcast as a medium will ever have the cultural impact that TV and movies do. It may never be super-mainstream.” IfsKnowsMayTvsImpactMediumsMainstream Author:Chris Hardwick
“I don't know if you've ever seen some of the Sidney Lumet movies, like Dog Day Afternoon [1975] or Network [1976]. They're real events that happen in real time, and there are all of these different characters experiencing the same thing in different parts of the movie ... I am so bad at explaining my films. But it's in the world of finance and the world of media, and how they connect. It was a big undertaking. A big, mainstream movie, which stars Julia Roberts and George Clooney. But for me, it's really just a small story about character and people.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldDifferentRealCharacterStoriesBigsHappensFilmStarsMediaDogEventsFinanceAfternoonMainstreamExplainingUndertakingsJuliaDifferent CharactersDog Days Author:Jodie Foster
“A lot of people dabbling means Buddhism has come into the mainstream, where people begin to use these terms and ideas, and they become less foreign.” PeopleMeanIdeasUseTermBuddhismMainstreamDabbling Author:Sakyong Mipham
“Marco [Rubio] made reference earlier to the litigation against Trump University. It's fraud case. I want you think about if this man is the nominee, having the Republican nominee on the stand in court being cross examined about whether he committed fraud. You don't think the mainstream media will go crazy on that?” IfsThinkingMenWantMadeCasesCrazyMediaTrumpRepublicanCrossesCourtUniversityCommittedFraudMainstreamI Want YouMarcosMainstream Media Author:Ted Cruz
“I just wanted to make more of a lifestyle record instead of anything else. I wasn't trying to do anything mainstream or nothing like that. I wanted to speak on this time period where I was fed up with a couple things and I had an idea of what I wanted to do.” TryingIdeasWantedSpeakRecordsCouplePeriodsLifestyleFedsMainstreamFed UpTime PeriodsCouple Things Author:Young De
“Run DMC brought us out of that underground-only feel. They brought rap above ground and made it respectable as an art form to mainstream music.” FeelsArtMadeRunningFormRapMade ItMainstreamRespectableRun Dmc Author:Ice Cube
“I think the great majority of Republicans, mainstream Republicans from across the country, don't want to see Donald Trump as president of the United States either. They're concerned they'd see a recession and I think they are also concerned we'd see a more dangerous world.” ThinkingWorldWantCountryStatesPresidentUnitedUnited StatesDangerousTrumpRepublicanConcernedMajorityMainstreamRecessionsDangerous World Author:Mitt Romney
“You have the mainstream bourgeois life of the U.S., Europe, the "developed" world - the life of technology, education, mortgages, careers, a certain level of physical comfort - while on the other hand, several billion people on the planet exist on less than a dollar a day. That's a huge and terrible reality to get your head around.” PeopleWorldHandsRealityCertainLevelsCareersTechnologyPlanetsHugeTerribleComfortEuropeDollarsBillionsMainstreamMortgageBourgeoisTechnology In Education Author:Ben Fountain
“Occasionally, a great band would come along, like Blondie or OutKast who could be pop and bring interesting ideas into the mainstream at the same time. That's now gone, because of this weird mutation of pop, rap, R&B, bad rave, and supposedly soulful singing on top of it.” IdeasInterestingGoneBandSingingPopsRapMainstreamSoulfulMutationRaveInteresting IdeasBlondieOutkast Author:Johnny Marr
“Mainstream rabbis essentially closed the book on dreams by the sixth century, and Church fathers established that only certain saints have the discernment to determine which dreams are from God. The dream is exiled.” BookDreamCertainFatherChurchCenturySaintDetermineMainstreamDiscernmentRabbiChurch Fathers Author:Rodger Kamenetz
“All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.” IfsRecordsMy FavoriteMainstreamVocal Author:Dee Dee Ramone
“I have a conflicted relationship with musicals, because I think the music itself can be so horrendous. It's an industry that relies on appealing to a mainstream culture in order to survive.” ThinkingOrderCultureIndustryRelyMainstreamMainstream Culture Author:Colin Meloy
“Video games have become this really weird medium where it's not quite mainstream but it's not quite art either.” ArtGamesVideoMediumsMainstreamReally Weird Author:Mike Tucker
“When drum'n'bass happened, when the two-step/garage thing happened, there was a chart smash every week; it operated on the underground and the pinnacle of pop mainstream at the same time.” TwoStepsHappenedWeekPopsThings HappenMainstreamBassGaragePinnacle Author:Kieran Hebden
“I think I have broken into the mainstream, and I think that may happen in a broader way, but I want to do it on my own terms, not become a standard producer.” ThinkingWayWantMayHappensTermMy OwnBrokenStandardsProducersMainstream Author:Joe R. Lansdale
“I have always felt validated and it shouldn't take film to do that for writer, but I'm glad it has. My plan has always been to be read more widely by doing just what I've always done. I wanted to break into the mainstream without becoming mainstream.” DoneWantedFilmFeltBreakPlansBecomingGladMainstream Author:Joe R. Lansdale
“I think part of why schizophrenia got linked to civil rights protest in the '60s was because mainstream society was coding threats against the smooth running of the state as insanity and treating it as such, and so as that happens you see the evolution of a process in which people with schizophrenia are increasingly feared and our hospitals, particularly the kind of hospital that I look at in the book become to look more and more like prisons, to the point where many of them including the one I talk about actually become prisons.” PeopleThinkingLooksKindBookStatesHappensRunningProcessRightsEvolutionPrisonThreatIncludingCivil RightsInsanityProtestHospitalsMainstreamSmoothLinkedSchizophreniaMainstream Society Author:Jonathan Michel Metzl
“It used to be, if you wanted to have a strong, influential voice in the feminist movement, you really needed to be part of this New York/D.C. elite group of feminists, or part of a mainstream feminist organization. And now it's kind of an amazing thing that you can just start a blog and put your voice out there and build your readership.” IfsKindWantedUsedStrongVoiceGroupsNew YorkMovementNeededOrganizationFeministUsed To BeElitesMainstreamBlogsInfluentialAmazing ThingsReadershipFeminist Movement Author:Jessica Valenti
“If I came across a role that is completely mainstream and commercial, but it's the right one, I'd jump at the chance.” IfsChanceRolesMainstream Author:Kylie Minogue
“I think that there's a lot of anxiety out there in people wanting their children to be part of the mainstream, to achieve based on the well-worn yardsticks.” PeopleThinkingWellsChildrenAchieveAnxietyMainstreamWornYardsticks Author:Ron Suskind