The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?
The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.
I think cookies are sort of the unsung sweet, you know? They’re incredibly popular. But everybody thinks of cakes and pies and fancier desserts before they think cookies. A plate of cookies is a great way to end dinner and really nice to share at the holidays.
I think it’s sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young people into the theatre and expose them to Shakespeare.
There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of stuff was popular. It was very easy for me to just kind of move in and be noticed.
I’ve always been a big guy, whether it’s been a fat kid, a fat young adult, or a fat adult. I was always sort of… I guess the term would be ‘popular.’ I never dealt with a lot of name-calling or any of the bullying you’d think a fat kid might have to deal with.
Popular culture is one of the sites where this struggle for and against a culture of the powerful is engaged: it is also the stake to be won or lost in that struggle. It is the arena of consent and resistance.
I was by far the least popular of the Blue Collar crew when we started. There was a definite pecking order, and everybody knew it.
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?
I was an ordinary student at school and, at the same time, an actor. But I was not the popular kid, which helped me to play Peter Parker better.
Popular culture is most powerful when it offers us a vision of how our society should look – or at least reproduces our reality.
All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that’s how I am guided.
The Urdu or Hindustani language we use isn’t popular in theatre these days. It was a language that was being used in cinema from the 1950s until the ’80s. It is a very communicative language.
You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you’re nuts, and you’re not as popular with girls as you should be.
It is a huckleberry above my persimmon to cipher out how it is, with six months’ schooling only, I, David Crockett, find myself the most popular bookmaker of the day, and such is the demand for my works that I cannot write them half fast enough, no how I can fix it.
One of the disadvantages of poetry over popular music is that if you write a pop song, it naturally gets into people’s heads as they listen in the car. You don’t have to memorize a Paul Simon song; it’s just in your head, and you can sing along. With a poem, you have to will yourself to memorize it.
I’m the first Thai prime minister in history that first time win half of parliament seats and second time win 76% of parliamentary seats and I was ousted because too popular.
Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.
In terms of popular cinema, ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ is as near perfection as I can think of.
Seems like Americans just want it to be Halloween all year. The holiday just keeps getting more popular.
When a popular phenomenon reaches the cover of ‘Time’, it is already out of fashion.
I’m a musichead. My favorite Gaga song of all time is ‘You & I’ – it might not be the popular vote in terms of charts or sales, but it’s my favorite.
Long-term, perpetual travel is the dream of many. But surprisingly, for such a popular desire, few people realize how accessible it is.
Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.
Every ethnic group has a mythology… Until ‘Roots’… there was nothing in the popular culture to refute the paragraph in elementary school history class that said, ‘Slaves picked the cotton, were happy and life wasn’t so bad.’
Out of 30 years of Second City I was probably the third African-American with the main stage cast. I was surprised when I first heard that. I think part of the reason that improvisation has never been popular with African-Americans is that it isn’t popular in the inner cities.
People are fed up with something when it becomes more and more popular.
As an ideology – and certainly as a political identity – conservatism is less popular than the very principles and values it stands for.
My faith foundation works to bring about a greater respect and understanding between different faiths. We basically work with six popular religions in the world which are the three Abrahamic religions, Hinduism and Buddhism and Sikhism.
When I was growing up, music was music and there were no genres. We didn’t look at it as country music. Popular music in Tuskegee was country music. So I didn’t know it in categories. It was the radio.
I don’t think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It’s lonely out here.
When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.
Artists – musicians, painters, writers, poets – always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
There’s no difference in a lot of people’s minds between good musicians and popular musicians.
Economic growth is necessary to keep the promise – enormously important to individual Americans – that each generation will have the opportunity to become more prosperous than the preceding one, the popular term for which is ‘the American dream.’
If I knew anything about what people wanted and was popular, I’d still be writing for ‘Saturday Night Live’. I can only write what I want, and hopefully people will like it.
I don’t claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there’s a basis to them, and that’s why they’re more popular than other TV comedies. There’s a basis of truth in them, a gut feeling.
Why are fish unsustainable? Because they’re popular. What makes restaurants work? Popular dishes that people come back for.
Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.
Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably with a hot dog and possibly watch a man die. It won’t be me, but I can sit comfortably and watch it.
Only in a popular war against France… do I see a misfortune.
I follow politics in a big way, and always have since I was a kid. I’ve got opinions, but they’re opinions on both sides – not just anti-Republican, which is a real popular thing for a rap artist to do. If you dis Republicans, nobody will get mad. I think the two-party system sucks. It’s absolutely ignorant.
Americans did not want to see a Mexican become more popular in boxing than Muhammad Ali.
I don’t act to be popular or see my face on the cover of magazines every time I go out to get coffee. I don’t want to think about me all the time and what I look like.
If I say, ‘Hey, I’m Psy.’ ‘Psy?’ ‘The guy from the video on YouTube?’ ‘Oh.’ I hate that. I’ve got to be more popular than the video. So I need to keep promoting myself.
Employer contribution pension plans have become increasingly popular throughout the past two decades.
As part of modeling, I have acted in the advertisement films of popular brands. Then I got some offers from films.
I did work in a strip club, but I didn’t strip. I danced, and I became very popular.
Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.
In Chile, they have no movies. They have awful popular movies.
I hope wholeheartedly that badminton will be as popular and respected as tennis one day.
I was a kid who got picked on in school and got beat up by popular, athletic soccer-type people.
Let me be very frank. I make films keeping within the mainstream and my cinema is popular cinema. I love it this way.
What is pop music? It’s not a genre. It’s just the music that is popular at a given point in time.
People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular.
And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture.
He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.
Well, I think that those of us in public life that are trying to do a good job, and that are faced with this popular new game that the media has of being critical of everything that anybody in public office does probably are thin-skinned.
Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one’s principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
