The only difference is now more young black men are in the spotlight.
The first time I went out under the spotlight, I was proper freaked out.
In our society, the ideal self is bold, gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight. We like to think that we value individuality, but mostly we admire the type of individual who’s comfortable "putting himself out there."
In my circle of friends, I've always been loud and funny and talkative. But as soon as I step out of that circle, I get very quiet and introspective. I don't want the spotlight on me.
How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage.
I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
As people get older and fall out of the spotlight, people's memory of them changes.
Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.
This is what I signed up for. I’m not here going ‘Oh, they’re so mean to me, and it’s so hard for me.’ What I do for a living puts me in the spotlight. They pay me for it.
I was never one to seek out the spotlight.
I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing.
I think [the spotlight] is a lonely place to be. Everybodys wanting something from you, pulling at you.
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.
I've made my peace with being in the spotlight, definitely.
I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.
You go on these Internet blogs and people say the meanest things. I'm a normal person. Just because I'm in the spotlight doesn't mean I'm God's gift to the world. I'm learning and making mistakes just like every other 17-year-old girl out there.
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.
The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and I think that is something which is important for me to learn to do.
The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the global spotlight the dramatic advances China is making in enhancing the quality of life for its people.
When you care about other people, it takes the spotlight off your own drama.
I'm not living my life under the spotlight for anybody.
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.
Sometimes you forget how much you love someone, until you realize their smile is like a spotlight shined on your heart.
When you're in doubt about the future and you're in doubt about how solid this thing is that you're laying your life and your soul on the line for, you will probably retract into yourself a little bit and think, No, there's only so much I can give to something that everyone doesn't believe in. There's been chipping away, people have been chipping away at it, so it's just you in the spotlight in front of all these people.
Even when it's midnight, people are watching you. It's difficult to be in the spotlight all the time.
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