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		I think the reason vampire movies have been so popular over time is that they share so many parallels with human beings.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alexandra Cassavetes
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Superheroes were created in America, they're most popular in America, and at their best, they embody American ideals.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Gene Luen Yang
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm trying to move a little more toward literary fiction while still retaining a popular feel.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Frank Peretti
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Somehow we must reintegrate the scientific with the popular and reconnect the future to the present. This is less a job for scientists, engineers, bureaucrats, and administrators and more a job for novelists, moviemakers, popularizers, and politicians.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Newt Gingrich
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It used to be that we taxed property - zapped farmers basically. And there were very rich people who didn't pay that much tax. So in 1913, they put in the income tax. It was incredibly popular. The tax we love to hate today.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				T.R. Reid
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I said that there's going to come a day in our lives when women's running is as popular and as men's. Looking back, I obviously had a great sense of vision. And I was right.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kathrine Switzer
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		If you're trying to do what's popular now, you're way behind already. By the time you record it and do it and try to copy it, it's moved on.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Gloria Estefan
			
			
				Miami Sound Machine
			
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Art should never be popular.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Oscar Wilde
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Contrary to popular mythology, the best and most durable relationships are based not on vulnerability or passion but on a conjugation of positive attributes, a meeting of mind, body and soul that is all the more powerful as it is not weighed down with neediness and unreasonable expectation.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mariella Frostrup
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alice Hoffman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I thought I had to work at someplace everybody's heard of. It was never, 'I'm interested in such and such. I want to work in such and such magazine.' It was like, 'Oh, my G-d, I really need to work for somebody so people will think I'm OK.' So I got a job at 'Popular Mechanics'.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lisa Lampanelli
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Art and Entertainment are the same thing, in that the more deeply and genuinely entertaining a work is, the better art it is. To imply that Art is something heavy and solemn and dull, and Entertainment is modest but jolly and popular, is neo-Victorian idiocy at its worst.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ursula K. Le Guin