Mainstream Quotes · Page 23

As a first-generation "Asian American woman," for one thing, I knew there was no such thing as an "Asian American woman." Within…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

The shows you can do in cable are just more buzzworthy and are about subject matter that's more unusual or dark. And…

— Robert Greenblatt

We no longer have the public spheres available to be able to contest that violence. We don't see it in the mainstream…

— Henry Giroux

'The Dark Knight' is a really good movie that reached both critics and mainstream audiences.

— Anurag Kashyap

“When you're a malleable teenager seeking the approval of others, you can find yourself conforming to what you think other people's tastes…

— Danica Roem

Fascism allegation [to Donald Trump] is not coming from the left. This is coming from the right. It`s coming from inside the…

— Rachel Maddow

Once I started getting mainstream people to my shows, I realized we were taking too many solos, and they were too long.…

— Robert Glasper

Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends... It's every brand's goal…

— Adam Kluger

I'm not really a mainstream novelist!

— Irvine Welsh

We've had really good mainstream publicity for these books and both Wanted and Chosen were snapped up as movie deals before each…

— Mark Millar

That mainstream English is essential to our self-preservation is indisputable . . . but it is not necessary to abandon Spoken Soul…

— John R. Rickford

Insider can be more ludicrous. How did I ever end up [as one]? Carsick [Waters's book on hitchhiking] was on the New…

— John Waters

I think [audiences are] more aware now of the contradictions in mainstream culture, the phony piety that permeates society, the inhumane hypocrisy.

— Paul Krassner

I had said that Le Guin's worlds were real because her people were so real, and he said yes, but the people…

— Jo Walton

I want to make it clear: it's not that I hate mainstream cinema. It's perfectly fine. There are a lot of people…

— Michael Haneke

Great numbers of Asian Americans do not fit the model minority or 'tiger family' stereotypes, living instead in multigenerational poverty far from…

— Eric Liu

Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be,…

— Thurston Moore

As a member of the mainstream media for many years, I've learned just one thing: never to trust anything I read in…

— Pico Iyer

As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.

— Anonymous

Protesters should make their own media and not rely on mainstream media to cover them.

— Naomi Wolf

There are always young bands playing in their garages. A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream.…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight…

— Edmund White

I just consider myself a Republican, none of this hyphenated stuff. I was a mainstream conservative Republican, and most people are in…

— Bob Dole

The SI Swim cover was life changing, not just for myself but for women everywhere who've been told they can't do something…

— Ashley Graham

When I was working upon the ABC books, I wanted to show different ways that mainstream comics could viably have gone, that…

— Alan Moore