“Mainstream features can turn into ventures when you fender their venders and set off their censors.” — Calvin W. Allison Copy Share Image
I want to bring real music back but make it marketable and mainstream. To me, real music isn't everything being synthesized, computerized. — Leah LaBelle Copy Share Image
These big questions: Who are we? Where are we? What are we doing here? They never ask that in the mainstream. They… — David Icke Copy Share Image
Why are the mainstream buzz things rarely contemporary? It doesn't happen very often. It's hard to feel culpable or implicated or even… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
I was always the squarest person in the cool room, and alternatively, sometimes the weirder person at the mainstream table. — John Mulaney Copy Share Image
An experimental idea doesn't have to be separated from a mainstream context. The really exciting thing is where those two things are… — Sophie Copy Share Image
I've always given this line: 'I don't want to be in the mainstream, I want the mainstream to come to me.' And… — Peaches Copy Share Image
Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
At the Harvard Business School, I really felt I had gained the ability to resolve difficult issues. But I also felt that… — Thomas G. Stemberg Copy Share Image
There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
If there are political programs on TV, yet it takes an artist to actually energize political debate, that tells you something really… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
Science fiction [is] the kind of writing that prepares us for the necessary mutations brought about in society from an ever changing… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
I know artists that have tried for a long time in the Christian industry and then they were on a TV show… — Anthony Evans Copy Share Image
Predation is part of the everyday life of capitalism, in sectors as mainstream as pharmaceuticals, software and oil - where people's money,… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Black and awkward is the worst, because black people are stereotyped as being anything but awkward in mainstream media... Black people are… — Issa Rae Copy Share Image
Radicalization does not happen to young people with a strong grounding in the American Muslim mainstream; increasingly, it happens online, and sometimes… — Suhaib Webb Copy Share Image
If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport. — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
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… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don't see that much. — Haile Gerima Copy Share Image
The Opportunity Divide doesn't just keep our students disconnected from the mainstream economy; it prevents our businesses from growing. — Gerald Chertavian Copy Share Image
The history of pop is a progression of underground styles going mainstream, so there's nothing unusual about the White Stripes or Franz… — Sasha Frere-Jones Copy Share Image
Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box. — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
A lot of dudes can't function too long in mainstream life because they've been indoctrinated into that penal system where that shapes… — Sadat X Copy Share Image
Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read,… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone. — Walter Annenberg Copy Share Image
Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it, it's like 1 percent of the… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image
I haven't changed. If it seems I'm becoming more mainstream, doesn't that mean instead that Japan is aligning itself with me? I… — Takafumi Horie Copy Share Image
I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
We don't really want to be the 'Late Night' of the Internet. We want to have one foot in the mainstream, one… — Sean Evans Copy Share Image
“This is the mainstream now, Mike. This is how life in America is . Moment by moment, our country has grown sicker.… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them. — Imran Khan Copy Share Image
Son-In-Law was kind of my crossover. It was the movie that brought me out of the MTV audience into the mainstream. — Pauly Shore Copy Share Image
I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of… — Willem Dafoe Copy Share Image
The river of truth is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between them, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
There's the kind of people like me, who spent years in India, have learned Sanskrit, have done this work deeply - they… — Gary Kraftsow Copy Share Image
Texas has a lot of challenges, but if I choose to run I will talk about opening democracy to mainstream Texans and… — Chris Bell Copy Share Image
If I came across a role that is completely mainstream and commercial, but it's the right one, I'd jump at the chance. — Kylie Minogue Copy Share Image
Instead of trying to be the queen of cool, it feels like more of an achievement to work with mainstream brands and… — Andreja Pejic Copy Share Image
We are a very like-minded group, the senior members of this government. The outliers are not very far away from the mainstream. — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
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