Mainstream Quotes

Through failure, I found different ways to reverse my problems and get into the mainstream of Hollywood.

Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exhausted lode.

Ten years ago, desalination was the crazy aunt in the attic. That's changed. It is now entering the mainstream and being taken seriously.

You know, I'm a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen and a real keyboard - in other words a netbook - will be the mainstream on that.

If insurance companies paid for lifestyle-management classes, they would save huge sums of money. We need to see that alternative medicine is now mainstream.

Homosexuals are entering the mainstream, because they're becoming as boring and as tedious as any other splinter group.

One thing that I'm kind of disturbed at is actually being on the television, acting, being in something that's mainstream.

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

The people definitely shape the two, put stamps and classify mainstream and underground music.

Alternative music is no longer alternative once it’s in the mainstream.

If I came across a role that is completely mainstream and commercial, but it's the right one, I'd jump at the chance.

I sometimes feel I'm a sort of cult writer, rather than a mainstream writer, in that those who like my stuff like it a lot, but the appeal is not that broad.

I've always felt quite like an outsider. I don't really belong in the mainstream, and I quite like that.

I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.

I'm not mainstream at all. I can make mainstream music and I make music for mainstream artists, but me, myself, I'm not mainstream.

I’m not into the whole Austrian type, strongly libertarian economics. I like more mainstream economics.

Democrats, overpaid celebrities, the mainstream media that are so lazy, they are willing to endanger your lives, gamble with your life to try and score cheap political points!

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.

You may be married to a star, but that doesn't mean they'll treat you like one.

Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists.

It’s becoming obvious to most that mainstream media is nothing but a megaphone for the global elite to present biased news that’s designed to align the masses with their agenda.

Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.

I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like thats because technology has caught up with us.

I saw what I could [in Mexico City], but we rarely got anything other than big, mainstream American films.

I'm one of the luckiest Arab actors on the planet, because I've done, I think, two of the finest Arab roles that have been out in mainstream cinema for a very long time.

I don't see Merced appearing on a mainstream desktop inside of a decade.

I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.

The quality of mainstream cinema has changed. A lot of independent voices feel they can leave everything behind and make independent films.

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

What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream.

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

Horror writers can write about everything in the real world that a mainstream novelist can--plus the supernatural, which is the most fertile field for metaphor imaginable.

What were the politics of my family? They were mainstream moderate politics.

The consensual seduction of the mainstream media by and with the government is one of the most dangerous toxins at work in America today.

I'm mainstream. Always have been.

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

The Libertarian Party is a very mainstream party. It's a mainstream philosophy. It's of returning power from Washington to parents, to schools, to businesses in their communities.

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.

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.

Times are tough in the music industry, and now more than ever we need people like the team at Paste looking out for artists on the fringe of the mainstream.

The best tests of my Christian growth occur in the mainstream of life, not in the quietness of my study

Mainstream culture is like your mom: It's always a little late to catch on and gets easily confused by technology, but it means well.

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.

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.

Mainstream success is important - that's probably anathema to an indie publication like Pitchfork, but it's what I believe having experienced it personally.

I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.

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.

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?

When I was a young artist, I liked and was interested in belonging to the mainstream comics group. I didnt introduce myself as an author, but only as a designer.

Yet one new trend I do like coming from mainstream publishers right now is memoirs tied to research that explores the narrator's dilemma.