Mainstream Quotes

• I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Writer
  • Prove
  • Novels

• When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • People
  • Way
  • Sometimes

• You know you've built a product that can hit the mainstream when your wife, your father, and your mother-in-law can get involved.

  

  Josh Kopelman
  • Involved
  • Product
  • Mainstream

• As I'm sure anyone who's born after the '70s' access point is - is '70s films and '70s culture and there is a kind of a paranoiac atmosphere in that time in America. Yes, it's the golden age of journalism, Watergate, and all the rest of these people making these great breakthroughs - but it's also the moment that "if it bleeds, it leads" becomes mainstream and sensationalizing the news becomes more and more the given. Checking how many numbers you're getting, whatever you can do to get more numbers.

  

  Rebecca Hall
  • Numbers
  • Atmosphere
  • Journalism

• The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Mainstream
  • Tablet

• I love Seinfeld. That was not alternative. You can't get more in mainstream than that.

  

  Brett Gelman
  • Mainstream
  • Seinfeld

• My husband and I are loyal to our community and very approachable, even though we're kind of mainstream.

  

  Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe
  • Community
  • Kind
  • Husband

• When you're telling the truth and ahead of the mainstream media - like The Daily Caller, Breitbart, Cernovich, and other truth-tellers - then they're going to think you're wrong, because they can't see what you see.

  

  Mike Cernovich
  • Like
  • Daily
  • Because

• If the movies that I'm going to make anyway go mainstream, that would be the coolest thing ever. But I have set up a plan that I've been working on for a long time.

  

  Evan Glodell
  • Movies
  • Working
  • Mainstream

• The mainstream is always under attack.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Attack
  • Mainstream

• The experience on that movie (Dead Poets Society) was, for lack of a better term, life-altering. Peter Weir has a unique talent for making movies that are intelligent but also mainstream. I've never been terribly successful at doing that.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Experience
  • Movies
  • Mainstream

• I've tried different things through the years to get some play on mainstream. I'll try to tailor-make it.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Mainstream

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