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Black people are not often considered mainstream. Lamman Rucker
People Black Considered Mainstream Often
It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy. Larry David
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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, what I like to write. Laurell K. Hamilton
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I've often used the extremes in my work to comment on the mainstream. I think that sometimes a subject that I'm working on, like popular culture, is so present all around us that they're hard to see. It's like: How do you see the air you breathe? How do you see how it affects you? Lauren Greenfield
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I've had mainstream readers complain that the book is really a romance, and romance readers complain that the book isn't a romance - with the same book! It really depends on the individual reader's expectations going into the story, and that's very hard to predict person to person. Lauren Willig
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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
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I'll put it to you like this: You can only go as mainstream as people will let you go. Lecrae
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I see the world from a very specific perspective. It is how I grew up. It is what I am proud of, and I vocalize it. And for those who have not experienced my experience, it is odd, and it's not mainstream. Lee Daniels
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We're not really an underground band anymore, and we're not a mainstream band, either. Lee Ranaldo
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The hero of a mainstream stand-alone novel can get by with things the hero of a sweet traditional category romance wouldn't dream of doing. Leigh Michaels
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Most of my work has been independent movies outside the mainstream system. Lenny Abrahamson
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Today we all are enjoying the fruits of the digital era. Millions of sources of information coming at us at lightning fast speed. That technology has also democratized the gathering and dissemination of news, allowing for 'citizen journalists' to make their mark, even usurping the role of mainstream news organizations at times. Lester Holt
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In Britain, British history is naturally a mainstream subject. Step outside your own narrow specialism, and you can find yourself treading on someone else's toes. But in America, British history is an eccentric, minority pursuit, and while this can be intellectually isolating, it also permits extraordinary freedom. Linda Colley
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Much of what Karl Popper contributed to the philosophy of science has now passed into mainstream thought, into the currency of that nebulous, tricky ontology known as 'common sense.' Liz Williams
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Fans tend to think that if you fall in love with an artist... and then he gets bigger, and he grows, and he starts to make a different sound, 'He's changing on us.' But with me, I created all types of sounds from the get go, so you can never say I'm changing; you can never say I'm going mainstream or I'm selling out. Logic
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Surf music at the time that I did it wasn't mainstream, nor were the Cheech and Chong albums. The risk comes from having the ability to do something that hadn't been done before that I thought was either interesting as an art form or just should be done. Lou Adler
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What I see in Washington reminds me of what I saw in Montgomery when I was first elected Alabama's Attorney General. In Montgomery, corruption was the problem, so I assembled the finest public corruption prosecution team in the country. Their work wasn't always popular with the mainstream media or the local politicians. We didn't let that stop us. Luther Strange
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When it comes to American Indians, mainstream America suffers from willful blindness. Lydia Millet
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I remain committed to telling the stories of women of the African diaspora, particularly those stories that don't often find their way into the mainstream media. Lynn Nottage
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I'm interested in people who are dwelling outside the mainstream. And very often, those people happen to be woman of color. Lynn Nottage
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If you ask me what I worry about every morning when I wake up, it's that I don't understand future mainstream Internet users' habits. Ma Huateng
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Muslim communities themselves, as they expect mainstream society to stand down racists, must do more to also stand down the Islamist extremists. Maajid Nawaz
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I'm not one of those acts where it's, like, this mainstream person, where the average white kid at Harvard University is like, 'It's educational tonight. Let's all go out there and spend Dad's money.' Machine Gun Kelly
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Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community. Malcolm Gladwell
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If the Christian community responds to our music better because maybe we gained a little more credibility in the mainstream, then it's not ideal, it's not fun, it's not sexy, but I'll take it. Marc Martel
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I don't really know what 'selling out' is exactly. I would sell out if I could, but nobody's buying it. I would love to go mainstream, but my comedy is too edgy. It's always too dirty. It's always too filthy. I'm dying to sell out. But I love doing comedy, I love touring, and I think I would do everything for free. Margaret Cho
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