Limelight Quotes - Page 3

• I wasn't a perfect thing at 17. I didn't have confidence. I was hunched over and real embarrassed, and I didn't want to be in the limelight. But it changed over time.

  Lindsay Davenport

  Real, Perfect, Want

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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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• I don't like publicity, being in the limelight.

  Paul Ince

  Publicity

  "Ince the manager keeps eyes open - all night". Interview With Dominic Fifield, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2006.

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• I'm 61 now, and I'm comfortable in my lifestyle... I don't yearn for the limelight on a regular basis. I get a kick out of it every so often. I go to Philly and go to a game, and they make a big deal about me. That's fun for a couple of days, and I can go back to my own private life.

  Mike Schmidt

  Couple, Fun, Games

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• Well, I'm not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I'm performing, that's what I'm doing. If I'm not, I don't long for it. I don't need the approval of an audience, or applause.

  Patti Smith

  Long, People, Needs

  "American icon". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2003.

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• I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my personal life off-limits; rather, the personal life I put on display was a blend of fact and fiction.

  James McGreevey

  Self, Two, Fiction

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• At no time and in no circumstances should a Communist place his personal interests first; he should subordinate them to the interests of the nation and of the masses. Hence, selfishness, slacking, corruption, seeking the limelight, and so on, are most contemptible, while selflessness, working with all one's energy, whole-hearted devotion to public duty, and quiet hard work will command respect.

  Mao Zedong

  Hard Work, Selfishness, Firsts

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.137, Lulu.com

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• In a nation of celebrity worshipers, amid followers of the cult of personality, individual modesty becomes a heroic quality. I find heroism in the acceptance of anonymity, in the studied resistance to the normal American tropism toward the limelight.

  Shana Alexander

  Acceptance, Cult Of Personality, Quality

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• Crises have a way of thrusting into the limelight hitherto obscure persons, and giving them, for a long or short period, a leading role.

  Susan Ertz

  Book, Long, Giving

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• Former President Bill Clinton is on the program tonight. He says that while his wife runs for president, he would like to stay out of the limelight. Well, he's certainly come to the right place. He'll be fine here.

  David Letterman

  Running, Wife, President

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• I was always a bit reluctant with anything like fame and the limelight and it didn't sit very well with me, although I love singing and writing.

  Alex Parks

  Writing, Singing, Fame

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• I don't know if I'd wanna be in the limelight.

  Georgia Salpa

  Ifs, Knows

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• It's tough for those celebrity couples. It's really hard. My wife wasn't in the limelight, which made it easier... the key is to keep it happy, light, and fun.

  Joey Fatone

  Couple, Fun, Keys

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let me say that the credit belongs to the boys in the back rooms. It isn't the man who sits in the limelight like me who should have the praise.

  Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

  Boys, Men, Should Have

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• I'm not the type of person who enjoys the limelight.

  Katie Leung

  Type, Enjoy, Persons

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• A lot of my colleagues are content to be character actors who are always in the background. I'm not that guy. I'm the guy who wants the limelight. Gimme the ball and I'll run it through a brick wall for you. I'll be your biggest soldier.

  Terry Crews

  Running, Wall, Character

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• All unwillingly I opened my eyes - then I opened them wider, and lifted my head. The heat, my weariness, were quite forgotten. Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this there was a girl: the most marvellous girl - I knew it at once! - that I had ever seen.

  Sarah Waters

  Girl, Eye, Shadow

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• Add to this the pride of achievement; the desire to rank among the successful souls on earth, and we have the factors which have brought some of the ablest of human beings into the limelight that revealed them to an admiring world, as leaders and examples.

  Lewis Howard Latimer

  Success, Pride, Science

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• Books are educational; so you can buy as many as you want." Sophie Kinsella, shopping at the Limelight Marketplace

  Sophie Kinsella

  Educational, Book, Shopping

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• Being in the limelight with Glee, I've definitely felt pressure to stay fit. But honestly, you have to ignore it.

  Jenna Ushkowitz

  Glee, Pressure, Fit

  "Jenna Ushkowitz is your Team Seventeen Captain!" by Jenna Ushkowitz, www.seventeen.com. January 3, 2012.

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• When you reach a certain status in Hollywood, you have to play a lot of games to stay in the limelight. It becomes more about being famous than being an actor.

  Jason Lee

  Play, Games, Hollywood

  "Jason Lee: 20(ish) Questions". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. June 1, 2006.

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• "The life of the union depends upon more people getting to share the limelight, because with the limelight also comes responsibility and with the responsibility comes a little sharing of the load." "There isn't enough money to organize poor people. There never is enough money to organize anyone. If you put it on the basis of money, you're not going to succeed."

  Cesar Chavez

  Responsibility, People, Unions

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• I still hate making pictures! And I don't like Hollywood any better. I detest the limelight and love simplicity, and in Hollywood the only thing that matters is the hullabaloo of fame. If Hollywood will let me alone to find my way without forcing me and rushing me into things, I probably will change my feelings about it. But at present Hollywood seems utterly horrible and interfering and consuming. Which is why I want to leave it as soon as I am able.

  Margaret Sullavan

  Hate, Rushing, Simplicity

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• Real greatness is often humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. Some of the greatest works of art and the most important works of peace were created by people who had no need for the limelight. They knew that what they were doing was their call, and they did it with great patience, perseverance, and love.

  Henri Nouwen

  Perseverance, Art, Real

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• She was an auxiliary nurse but training to be a true nurse because that was her calling, to serve mankind. She was a Martha. There were Marys and Marthas, but Marys got all the limelight because of being Christ's handmaiden, but Marthas were far more sincere.

  Edna O'Brien

  Nurse, Training, Calling

  Edna O'Brien (2007). “The Light of Evening”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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