Center Stage Quotes

• A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage.

  Cass Canfield

  Writing, Receiving, Ends

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• The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.

  Vernor Vinge

  Problem, Passing, Stage

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• The real drama of life is never centerstage. It's always in the wings.

  Fred Rogers

  Real, Drama, Wings

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• The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.

  Edward Hoagland

  God, Dying, Earth

  Edward Hoagland (1992). “Balancing acts: essays”

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• I need sometimes to hang back in the shadows with my pen and paper, and then other times, I need to take center stage in my own creations. The trick is to know when to hang back, and when to step forward. It's a perpetual ongoing balance.

  Allison Joseph

  Shadow, Balance, Ongoing

  Source: lunchticket.org

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• I feel that the real drama of life is never center stage, it's always in the wings. It's never with the spotlight on, it's usually something that you don't expect at all.

  Fred Rogers

  Real, Drama, Wings

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• All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.

  Julia Cameron

  Moving, Artist, Audacity

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.61, Penguin

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• Within the various acts of the ecodrama should be included scenes in which men's and women's roles come to center stage and scenes in which Nature 'herself' is an actress.

  Carolyn Merchant

  Men, Roles, Actresses

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• [Donald] Trump is taking America's dirty laundry to the center stage. Everything he does, the rest of the country already does really well: victimize immigrants, poor people, women.

  Junot Diaz

  Country, Dirty, America

  "Junot Díaz is staying put". Interview with Marcela García, www.bostonglobe.com. April 6, 2016.

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• Robinson did not merely play at center stage. He was center stage; and wherever he walked, center stage moved with him.

  Roger Kahn

  Play, Stage, Moved

  Roger Kahn (1973). “The Boys of Summer”, Signet

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• Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.

  Karen Armstrong

  Secular Society, Different, Way

  "Now" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org.

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• One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.

  Taylor Swift

  Careers, Musical, Style

  "Taylor Swift: Billboard Music Award Wins Were a 'Wonderful Feeling'" by Ray Rogers, www.billboard.com. May 25, 2013.

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• I want to put the interests of ordinary working people right up there, center stage. Those people who - you know, they're working all the hours. They're doing their best for their families and sometimes they just feel the odds are stacked against them.

  Theresa May

  Odds, People, Ordinary

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• There are lots of big books that have gay characters - or, more commonly, a gay character - in secondary roles, but seldom are their lives, and especially their sexual lives, on center stage.

  Garth Greenwell

  Book, Character, Gay

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Center Stage focused on the drive and what it's like to be a student, and this is what it's like to be an adult and what you need to give up in the pursuit of that passion and that focus.

  Amanda Schull

  Giving Up, Passion, Focus

  Source: collider.com

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• Nicholas Hytner, who directed Center Stage, is a huge ballet fan. He was completely open, as was Bruce Beresford, to get our perspective. "No, we wouldn't do this. Yes, we would do that. That's not realistic." So, I feel like Center Stage did well in that respect.

  Amanda Schull

  Perspective, Ballet, Fans

  Source: collider.com

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• To a large extent, the aged in our society are ghettoized. Old people are seen as useless, bypassed by history, old-fashioned, in the way. So, not surprisingly, when we reach the official mark of old age, we're supposed to go gently into that good night, to get off center stage and hand over the spotlight. Old age is also surrounded by shame - the myth of impotence and inability.

  Sam Keen

  Good Night, Hands, People

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• The Protestant wing of the western church, which is a tiny percentage of the Body of Christ, is nearly completely (98%) unaware that the Holy Spirit is restoring contemplative prayer-center stage-to the church The Holy Spirit is restoring this precious jewel (contemplative prayer) to the body of Christ. This is the God ordained means of attaining the fullness of God.

  Mike Bickle

  Prayer, Mean, Jewels

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• The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.

  Zoe Saldana

  Battle, World, Being A Woman

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• We have learned more about the brain in the last fifteen years than in all prior human history, and the mind, once considered out of reach, is finally assuming center stage.

  Michio Kaku

  Years, Brain, Mind

  Michio Kaku (2014). “The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest To Understand, Enhance and Empower the Mind”, p.11, Penguin UK

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• Science has an uncomfortable way of pushing human beings from center stage. In our prescientific stories, humans began as the focal point of Nature, living on an Earth that was the center of the universe. As the origins of the Earth and of mankind were investigated more carefully, it became clear that Nature had other interests beyond people, and the Earth was less central than previously hoped. Humankind was just one branch of the great family of life, and the Earth is a smallish planet orbiting an unexceptional sun quite far out on one arm of a run-of-the-mill spiral galaxy.

  Seth Lloyd

  Running, People, Stories

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• This years keynote session is a clear reminder that wireless data technology is expanding its reach beyond that of an alternative to wireline telephony. We have gathered an exclusive group of business leaders to share how wireless is being integrated into their companys business strategies and what it means for their bottom lines. The presence of these telecom, media and entertainment giants on our center stage is a great indicator of the impact wireless data has made on countless industries.

  Steve Largent

  Mean, Technology, Impact

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• Glacier Gray is an unobtrusive gray that contrasts and enhances; bouncing off other shades without taking away from them as it slips into the background to allow other colors to take center stage. Nature’s most perfect neutral, Glacier Gray is a shade that is timeless. Quietly assuring and peacefully relaxing, Glacier Gray, is above all, constant.

  Leatrice Eiseman

  Color, Perfect, Glaciers

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• For almost half a century, Fermilab has occupied center stage as physicists have sought to understand the fundamental structure of the universe. The lab deserves a good history, and I'm happy to say that in this book it has one. The authors present a compelling, nuanced, and richly detailed account of the place from its beginnings to the present.

  James Trefil

  Book, Fundamentals, Half

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• The dictionary describes a selfish person as one who is 'concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself: seeking pleasure or well-being without regard for others.' May we add, a selfish person is often one who refers to 'I,' 'me,' and 'mine' rather than to 'we,' 'ours,' 'yours,' or 'theirs.' This person is anxious to be in the limelight, to be on center stage in life's little dramas. He or she may be a poor listener, or a conversation monopolizer. Selfishness is the great unknown sin. No selfish person ever thought himself to be selfish.

  H. Burke Peterson

  Drama, Selfish, Add

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