Spotlight quotes
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What I do for a living puts me in the spotlight.
-- Ali Larter -
I was never one to seek out the spotlight.
-- Angela Cartwright -
I was never one to seek out the spotlight. I am kind of a private person, so I don't miss that part of show business at all.
-- Angela Cartwright -
I think [the spotlight] is a lonely place to be. Everybodys wanting something from you, pulling at you.
-- Angie Everhart -
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They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which every moment ought to be illuminated with its own bright spotlight.
-- Anna Godbersen -
I wanted to be a ballerina so badly. You can be seen and take over the spotlight without speaking. I had a fear of speaking in public back then.
-- April Bowlby -
There's a lot of instant spotlight and pressure when it comes to a Bond song.
-- Barbara Broccoli -
Let's pursue a walk with God so close that the spotlights of this world-be they for us or against us-are eclipsed by His enormous shadow cast on our path.
-- Beth Moore -
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In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.
-- Breyten Breytenbach -
When I played, I never needed the spotlight, nor did I want it. I simply wanted to play baseball and be respected by my teammates and the opposing players.
-- Bruce Sutter -
In pop music, the public usually see the results - the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours - but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won't make it.
-- Bruno Mars -
Sometimes you forget how much you love someone, until you realize their smile is like a spotlight shined on your heart.
-- Cassia Leo -
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At first you can stand the spotlight in your eyes. Then it blinds you. Others can see you, but you cannot see them.
-- Charles Lindbergh -
For better or worse, when you're running for mayor, there's a little bit of a spotlight on you.
-- Christine Quinn -
Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
You're not only the spotlight in which you perform, but the shadows where you practice.
-- Debby Ryan -
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I have a full life off the road. I was never in it just for the money or the career. That's why I'm comfortable with myself. I know who I am out of the spotlight.
-- Dion DiMucci -
How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage.
-- Florenz Ziegfeld -
If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they crave.
-- Gail Caldwell -
Stay true in the dark, and humble in the spotlight.
-- Harold B. Lee -
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I just don't like politics. My rule is if I can put a spotlight on something, I'll do that.
-- Harvey Fierstein -
I'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.
-- Heath Ledger -
My personal life is in the spotlight, but people say what they want to say. The truth isn't in the spotlight, I should say. I'm in the spotlight, but not the truth.
-- Hope Solo -
Before, I was always the kid that was in the background. It was hard for me to get casted in even one program, and when people thought that I was a guest on a show for the first time when I had been on before, it saddened me. Suddenly getting the spotlight? That's! Not! True!
-- IU -
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When I was younger, I actually wanted to be in the spotlight. To have people want me, want to have a piece of me.
-- Jane Lynch -
My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.
-- Jeanette Winterson -
There is a time and place for being in the limelight. As far as being away from the spotlight, well, a certain air of exclusivity is always good.
-- Jiah Khan -
Ego is to the true self what a flashlight is to a spotlight.
-- John Bradshaw -
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What happens when your dream comes true - when the spotlight is on and then it moves away?
-- Juliana Hatfield -
I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
-- Kate Burton -
The first time I went out under the spotlight, I was proper freaked out.
-- Katy B -
I normally shun the spotlight, but I don't mind being the platform.
-- Kay Yow -
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Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.
-- Lance Bass -
Stay out of the spotlight. It fades your suit.
-- Lew Wasserman -
Because I'm so much in the spotlight, people lose sight of why I'm in the industry. In fact, I'm doing all this because I love to act. I love to perform, to sing.
-- Lindsay Lohan -
I know I'll be under a spotlight, I know I'll be under the microscope.
-- Lisa Guerrero -
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Anybody in the spotlight can get lost in that if they are not careful.
-- Lisa Marie Presley -
One thing modeling taught me is that the spotlight can change everything.
-- Liya Kebede -
So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.
-- Lucinda Williams -
The cosmic spotlight isn't pointed at you; it radiates from within you.
-- Marianne Williamson -
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The reason so many of us are obsessed with becoming stars is because we are not yet starring in our own lives. The cosmic spotlight isn’t pointed at you, it radiates from within you,
-- Marianne Williamson -
It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else.
-- Marion Cotillard -
The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more and more of those folks we place on pedestals aren't even pausing to consider an option other than lying.
-- Michael Musto -
I've made my peace with being in the spotlight, definitely.
-- Miranda Otto -
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for some people life outside the spotlight is death.
-- Nadia Comaneci -
Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
-- Nas -
At least we got to see the worst haircut since 1984 try to steal the spotlight from lovely Taylor Swift.
-- Nathan Followill -
It is your duty to examine the conduct of public figures and to place them in the spotlight - that is your duty.
-- Nelson Mandela -
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I have arrived, and the spotlight is on me, honey!
-- NeNe Leakes -
I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.
-- Patricia Heaton -
You could be your own spotlight!
-- Patrick Stump -
I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy.
-- Riccardo Muti -
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Where I once found it safer to stay in the background... I've stepped from the shadows into the spotlight.
-- Salle Merrill Redfield -
I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was.
-- Sarah McLachlan -
I liked being in the spotlight.
-- Scott Caan -
The red-carpet spotlight is a little bit more nerve-racking when you haven't been doing it all the time.
-- Shania Twain -
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We are able to speak for ourselves through our music rather than being defined and put into the spotlight in a very male kind of groomed way for an obviously predominantly male audience.
-- Shingai Shoniwa -
Out of all artists, authors are the least trained for the spotlight. Wanting attention isn't a requisite part of the package.
-- Sloane Crosley -
Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.
-- Stefan Zweig -
Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Gandhi — all these peopled described themselves as quiet and soft-spoken and even shy. And they all took the spotlight, even though every bone in their bodies was telling them not to.
-- Susan Cain -
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Internet radio stations like KCRW do take you everywhere, yet thats just one of a hundred small things you have to do to succeed. It used to be, if you just got on the cover of Rolling Stone and a spotlight on The Tonight Show, that was enough.
-- Teddy Thompson -
Everyone for the most part is really nice. There have always been jokes, but that's part of being in the spotlight. You can't make everyone completely happy.
-- Tina Yothers -
I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing.
-- Tom Wopat -
In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight.
-- Tony Blair -
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I dont care if youre Britney freakin Spears, nobody is going to steal my spotlight!
-- Trish Stratus -
I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.
-- Vincent Cassel -
The lifestyle I lead as a footballer means I am always in the spotlight.
-- Wayne Rooney -
Even when it's midnight, people are watching you. It's difficult to be in the spotlight all the time.
-- Chauncey Billups -
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I don't want to be in the spotlight so bad that I'm going to sell my soul, or sell my creativity short.
-- Donnis -
I think that happens to a lot of people who find themselves thrust into the spotlight and becoming famous before they recognize what's happening to them. Life becomes a little distorted for them.
-- Linda D. Thompson -
No question that the spotlight on Darfur has, for all intents and purposes, disappeared. And that's deeply problematic, because it hasn't disappeared because Darfur has been solved.
-- Rebecca Hamilton -
Any additional spotlight you can put onto an opening of a film is a great thing to get.
-- Tim Bevan -
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I don't want to be at a point where I'm trying to steal the spotlight from the team or anyone else or make it seem like it's just about me.
-- Tyler Beede -
It comes with it, this is my work and all the media thing is just a big bonus for me. I'm just enjoying being in the spotlight right now so it's not a big deal for me.
-- Alexander Gustafsson -
I don't really like the spotlight.
-- Chase Utley -
Dempsey himself said you only spend so much time in the spotlight before they change the bulb. He had a very clever way with words.
-- Roger Kahn -
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The controversy over Russian gas deliveries shines a glaring spotlight on the risks involved in this industry. In an energy NATO, EU and NATO member states would guarantee one another assistance in obtaining energy, in any form, but without violence. Of course, we need an additional pipeline system for this purpose.
-- Lech Kaczynski
