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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

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as far as you need to.

— Kiran Desai

I like going crazy. And not just for art - I like extremes in general.

— Grimes

I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.

— Barbara Kruger

The more things you do outside of your norm, the more ideas you get exposed to, the more people you get exposed to, and I think that's interesting.

— Masi Oka

When I look at public opinion, I'm not far out of the mainstream. I'm in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I've ever said.

— Noam Chomsky

The media chooses to portray the most extreme and violent aspects of a place. I do the opposite and portray the normality.

— Brandon Stanton

I don't follow trends. I set my own and I go for the extreme.

— JWoww

I have always had a tendency to keep enlarging problems which I personally think is the way the world works... that seeing anything one dimensionally on the kinds of political, sort of big issues of human progress is going to be a distorted view of things, which is why over my career I have gone seemingly from subject to subject to subject.

— Paul Wolfowitz

For a writer, you definitely do not want to be in the mainstream. You want to be on the edge because that's where the vantage point is. That's where you can see.

— Ruth Ozeki

✗Opposing Perspectives

I have always been mainstream. It's so weird, because I don't see it as something negative at all. So many people see it as something negative.

— Avicii