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I want to have an ending where people say: "That's the most shocking ending I've ever seen in a mainstream horror film." — Eli Roth

Alex Poots has always made a bridge between highly experimental and the mainstream. — Hans Ulrich Obrist

The way to find what the mainstream will do tomorrow is to associate with the lunatic fringe today. — Jean Louis

People are bursting out of the closet, rejecting their parents' wishes to keep the faith. Atheism is becoming mainstream. — Kevin Smith

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

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

I would like to point to the extraordinary lengths the mainstream media will go to maintain a sensationalist story. — John McAfee

I'm not really that keen on mainstream; I'm not interested in doing the normal films. I do tend to go for the quirky, different scripts. — Gina Bellman

I think I might like to try film again just as an experiment, but I know that I could never do the mainstream thing again. — Mara Wilson

If no one ever deviated from currently accepted mainstream Science - we would still have the Flat Earth Society! — Mary Nash Stoddard

Democrat leaders are not only out of the American mainstream, but are also out of the Democratic mainstream. — Virginia Foxx

Lately, I'm spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream - almost dissolving into another world, musically. — Robert Plant

In a few years you may find a Starbucks, which will bring the town what it yearns for: prepackaged, preapproved mainstream hipness. — Gillian Flynn

The mainstream press and television do a very soft job of covering the press, either as corporate entities or as news organizations. — Sydney Schanberg

For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don't see that much. — Haile Gerima

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

There's not a lot of pop music in the mainstream that makes you feel scared, that makes you wonder what's happening. — Prince

Historically the mainstream media has never been particularly friendly to any socially progressive ideas. — Janeane Garofalo

will never be called upon to enact: the mainstream is — Laura Thompson

I mean, MTV or the mainstream media can tell you one thing, but when there are 40,000 people in front of you, who cares about all that? — Sebastian Bach

I think I'm in the majority of Americans. I believe that I am in the mainstream of middle America. — Michael Moore

To move into the mainstream, the ideational contender has to reframe the crisis by changing the very definition of reality. — Fred L. Block

The mainstream is always under attack. — Bill Gates

I do find that the mainstream media oftentimes is what I would consider off base or has a bias. — Dick Cheney

Nothing felt better to him than the act of waiting for her. As long as he believed it wasn't in vain, he was able to justify his presence. — Roy L. Pickering Jr.

I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream. — Jim Jarmusch

Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage. — Iain Duncan Smith

Check other sources before believing mainstream media.Seek the truth. — Anne-Rae Vasquez

Alternative music is no longer alternative once it's in the mainstream. — Kurt Cobain

Gooseberries should be mainstream berries! Why are chemically fattened strawberries a thing? Why not the delicious gooseberry? — Andrew Dost

Probably one of the reasons I don't work in the mainstream anymore is that I'm only interested in making the stuff I want to make — Chris Cunningham

The Muslim community should not be treated as a problematic community, but treated as a community that is willing to play its role in the mainstream. — Iqbal Sacranie

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

The best tests of my Christian growth occur in the mainstream of life, not in the quietness of my study — Charles R. Swindoll

It's very important to me to find ways to relate the audience to the characters. This is the first thing to go in most mainstream horror films. — Ti West

My friends are mostly familiar with music that plays on the mainstream radio. — Jessica Sanchez

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream. — Bill Gates

I don't think it is deniable: whenever we, I, conservative media, are really interested in something, the mainstream media purposely avoid it. — Rush Limbaugh

The mainstream of literary culture in the U.K. is very averse to writing about technology. — Nick Harkaway

[Science fiction is] out in the mainstream now. You can tell by the way mainstream literary authors pillage SF while denying they're writing it! — Terry Pratchett

The creative individual is no longer viewed as an iconoclast. He - or she - is the new mainstream. — Richard Florida

Trivia is mainstream. 'Nerd' is the new 'cool. — Ken Jennings

This is the truth about mainstream media and advertising: People wouldn't have to pay to show you such messages if they were right. — J.R. Rim

That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is laughable. — Henry Rollins

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

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

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. — Chris Hardwick

It's better to be the largest independent band from Brazil instead of be the smallest mainstream band. — Fernanda Takai

The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream. — Ian Schrager

I cut myself off from the mainstream of jazz. It stood me in good stead later on, as a musician. — Dave Van Ronk

The mainstream thrust of anti-intellectualism, as it stands today, characterizes thinking itself as an elitist activity. — Maggie Nelson

Electronic music is really weird right, because it is bleeding into the mainstream, but, at the same time, it's fashion. — Nigel Godrich

You know, I am a mainstream person with mainstream tastes, and I want to hear the hits. — Robbie Williams

Muslim communities themselves, as they expect mainstream society to stand down racists, must do more to also stand down the Islamist extremists. — Maajid Nawaz

Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people's rights away. — Charles Schumer

Your haters gather the most at the sidelines. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

Be out of the mainstream. I'm out of the mainstream. I enjoy it, who wants to be in the mainstream? — Bill Maher

Addictive tech is part of the mainstream in a way that addictive substances never will be. — Adam Alter

There is a clear intent to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream of the media and the nation's political life. — Erwin W. Lutzer

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. — Nigel Kennedy

Celtic music will always be around, even if with the mainstream crowds it dies out. — Natalie MacMaster

All of our schools need to bring 'learn from doing' into the mainstream education, not just afternoon. — Ray Kurzweil

The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism. — Kate Zambreno

Less than 10% of the mainstream workforce can achieve their dreams where they currently work. — Bill Jensen

I'm a performer and have managed to get my performing into the mainstream consciousness of the world, I guess. — Flea

Toronto may be the only city where novels are integral to high art, the alternative scene and mainstream culture all at the same time. — Stephen Marche

There are major advantages to remaining out of the radio for a long time before we have something that crosses into the mainstream properly. — Andrew Wyatt

One of the reasons why I think people have gone from reading mainstream newspapers to the Internet is because they realize they're being lied to. — Robert Fisk

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

These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them. — Imran Khan

History teaches us that, whatever we say, racists will always distort the words of mainstream politicians to make themselves sound more respectable. — David Blunkett

There is a strange depression that hangs over every little town that is no longer in the mainstream of life. — Margaret Craven

Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream. — Rush Limbaugh

In the late '90s, R&B was dominant in the radio, and the white kids were taking it mainstream. — Pink

I have no bones to pick and no fight with society. And I'm willing to be and interested in being in the mainstream of society. — Christopher Reeve

I like doing the mainstream, right-down-the-pike broad comedies as much as I like doing the kind of unorthodox different stuff. — Ryan Reynolds

Infiltrating the mainstream was a natural extension of my street art. I've always tried to communicate ideas to the public as directly as possible. — Eric Drooker

The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs: you're their friend. — Eileen Myles

Today they have proven once again that the mainstream media can't print enough bad news about our troops. — Joe Scarborough

Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do. — Anthony Anderson

I kind of thought, wouldn't it be funny to take a swing at being on the weird side of mainstream? — John Mulaney

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

All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream. — Dee Dee Ramone

I don't think I'm kind of universally known. I think in the indie world I'm probably better known than in some mainstream Hollywood terms. — Steve Coogan

When Elton John sang a duet with the white rapper Eminem on a Grammy telecast, rap went mainstream. Massive parental headaches followed. — Bill O'Reilly

Never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today. — Marco Rubio

Never change for the mainstream - stay in your lane, and if you're talented and resilient enough the mainstream will come to you. — Russell Simmons

Oftentimes you'll see stuff that makes it into the mainstream that has been influenced by things that are clearly not from the mainstream. — Steve Buscemi

The bias of the mainstream media is toward sensationalism, conflict, and laziness. — Jon Stewart

It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy. — Larry David

Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just 'The Other.' — Bharati Mukherjee

Feminism is just a way for ugly women to get into the mainstream of America. — Rush Limbaugh

We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior. — Jerry Springer

My input for the first 16, 17 years of my life was AM radio, FM radio - pretty mainstream stuff. Rolling Stone was probably as edgy as it got. — Trent Reznor

long stories in the same series (as well as a couple of stabs at mainstream stories). — Orson Scott Card

Perhaps all love stories no matter how varied are essentially the same. — Roy L. Pickering Jr.

When ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite. — Anton Szandor LaVey

I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me. — Willem Dafoe

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

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative. I don't like anything in the mainstream and they don't like me. — Bill Hicks