Jockeying for a popularity position has been a valorized teen tradition since the notion of a discrete teen stage of life was invented.
I had an initial wave of popularity that, in time, crashed, and I slowly became less popular and less successful, and I had to figure out who I was without those things.
We can’t deny that films have a bigger reach. After the popularity of the ‘Slumdog Millionaire,’ a lot of people started reading Vikas Swarup’s ‘Q & A’. From a business sense, films are a good tool to increase the number of readers.
There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it’s getting.
For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.
Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
The actor’s popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
Popularity isn’t my compass. Unless it can help one to act, to be understood… that’s what counts.
Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the income of the father, so mother feels she must go to work to satisfy her children’s needs. That decision can be most shortsighted.
How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity.
I’ve always tried to be nice to people, so that sort of translates into popularity, I guess.
It’s not a popularity contest to me. It should always be about the music.
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
I don’t think anyone could be the next Dick Vitale. I mean that in a good way. More than an announcer, Dick is an ambassador for the game. Dick is in class by himself. Like what he does or not, what he has done to expand the popularity of college basketball is phenomenal.
I do not use computer much, but I am slowly becoming aware of the popularity of Bob Biswas and the jokes on the Internet. I feel like Alice in Wonderland, it’s a dream which might end someday.
My political science degree is always on the back-burner. I took my LSAT, so even if I want to take the LSAT again, I know what I’m getting into. I’ll keep it on the back-burner. Who knows, maybe with my popularity, I can have a career in politics with a law degree. I think it’ll work out either way.
‘Top Gear”s popularity is a complete mystery to me. Maybe it’s because it’s still a car programme, but it’s turned into a distorted world view from three men; a world view through the windscreen.
Singers are definitely getting their due in Bollywood. I feel that music composers, on the other hand, tend to lose out on the popularity, fame, and success that singers usually enjoy.
On YouTube, if anything, coming out as gay or bi or trans explodes someone’s popularity.
I want to take advantage of any popularity I have.
I am genuinely happy that other actors are entering the industry and gaining popularity. There are enough opportunities in the business for everybody.
Goodness means the highest degree of popularity.
For all the popularity of spiritual advisers in South Korea, it still shocks to see the leaders of huge public companies relying on fortune-tellers. A shaman may advise a struggling executive to move a building’s front entrance, tapping the widespread pungsu belief that your luck depends on the direction of your house.
I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.
It is difficult to understand the fortunes of an instrument. There was music written for the guitar until the mid-19th century. Then the instrument declined in popularity.
I was an eccentric teenager in suburban New Jersey, in a town mostly interested in sports, popularity, and clothes. A fan of Jorge Luis Borges, I found a group of Borges scholars from Aarhus, Denmark – perfect strangers – whom I connected to online and immediately became enthralled by the idea of virtual communities.
Most of the martial arts techniques go in waves of popularity and usefulness, but they all work.
I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same as any other fashion.
In a way, the popularity of Corona came too fast for its own good, initially. We took a few steps back.
The NFL has done a great job of promoting the popularity of the game. There now are youth leagues in Puerto Rico and Mexico. You’re starting to see more and more young men with Hispanic surnames come into the NFL and that’s a wonderful thing.
You’re always going to sound like yourself, but you can make really strong attempts to keep some similarities, but move away from what you did before for popularity’s sake.
I’ve noticed, in the ebbs and flows of success and popularity, so much of it is fraudulent and to be distrusted.
So I think the popularity of the Internet at the same time as the show made a big part of this sort of groundswell of support for ‘Stargate.’
I mean, it gave me so much popularity, and because of TV, I got my first breakthrough. But I just enjoy doing films more.
It turns out that popularity is scary. I don’t feel comfortable receiving so much attention from people; perhaps that’s because I’m just a kampong boy.
I try not to be influenced by success or popularity.
We flirted with popularity in high school, which was when people realized that our videos, if used for a class assignment, would get you an automatic A. It took me a few months to realize I was just being used. They would only hang out with us while we were making the film for them.
I have never been attracted to increasing my popularity or hireability by being on Instagram.
I was in the wilderness of Hollywood for almost ten years. I was off the studio lists. I wasn’t getting the roles offered to actors that hadn’t done a third of the roles I had done or had the popularity I had.
When you are a commercial music artist, your music depends on your popularity.
I’m not here to win a popularity contest.
The power of the ‘Muppets,’ and the popularity of these characters, is so iconic in people’s lives that I had to distance myself from publicly. Not privately… Privately, hell, I’m with them for life, and I love these people. They’re my second family.
Some call-in moderators are neutral and courteous. Then there’s Rush Limbaugh, who is funny and pompous and a scapegoater and hatemonger. His popularity could cause you to draw some terrible conclusions about the state of mind of the American people. It helps to remember that Bill Cosby is popular, too.
Within the macho-melodrama tropes of the superhero genre, it’s fair to say ‘Watchmen’ stands out for its rich entertainment, its darkness, and its lurid pleasures. Its vividly drawn panels, moody colors and lush imagery make its popularity well-deserved, if disproportionate.
I’m not someone who gets to play The O2 and places like that, but that’s the kind of rock and roll venue. The popularity of stand-up means that some people are getting to play rock star venues.
Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.
The likeability and popularity of ‘Duck Dynasty’s’ Phil Robertson stem from his quick wit and honest assessment of situations that arise in reality television.
I thought I could play the hellraiser and then put ‘Johnny Vegas’ back in his box. I found popularity through self-destruction. The more you damage yourself, the more people are drawn to you, and that can be quite addictive. It is not a lifestyle you can maintain.
If some independent artists are using film as a medium to reach out to an audience, it should be promoted. Cinema is a popular medium and has a broad reach. There have been films with ghazals, classical and folk songs sung by local artists, which gave them popularity.
With the pervasive popularity of rap music and a black man sitting in the White House, there’s no reason to pretend the NBA has been handicapped by the blackness of basketball.
The making of the Barack Obama franchise far exceeded the skill set of Washington’s best. In fact, the recipe for Mr. Obama’s global popularity can be attributed less to political minds and chance than to the enduring power of Hollywood.
Nightclubs are a small-revenue business that go through pretty fast popularity cycles.
I’ll put it like this: When I was in high school, I would never win a popularity contest back then… it was always somebody else that got picked first for whatever reason. But all those people that went before me usually dropped the ball… then I’d get my shot.
When professors expect a few dozen students and hundreds show up, it’s a mixed blessing. While it’s a testament to their popularity, it also means they have to scramble to interview and hire more teaching fellows, schedule rooms, and order lab supplies.
I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we’re in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.
The popularity of figure skating has increased tremendously, and Koreans have a huge interest in figure skaters – not only me, other international skaters as well.
It’s always about staying competitive with myself… Popularity is something that may happen from time to time, and I don’t trust it and I don’t think it means too much. I’m going for greatness.
