Spotlight Quotes - Page 5

• [Michelle Obama] was the hardest sell. And she never fully embraced being in the public spotlight, which is ironic, given how good she is.

  Barack Obama

  Ironic, Given, Hardest

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I had a couple albums out that sold well for who I was at the time and the type of music I played. People started recognizing my name and face and it helped sell bigger venues. I had a bigger spotlight and I had to live up to it but I thrived under that challenge. It expedited the creative process. If I was on stage in front of 300 people instead of 30, I had to work harder at my performances because I had a greater responsibility. It was very exciting, but creative too.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Couple, Responsibility, Hard Work

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I did a lot of bad stuff from the age of 18 to 21. Those are days when everyone is usually in college doing a lot of stupid things. But since I was playing baseball, I was in the spotlight. I take full responsibility for doing things that I shouldn't have been doing. And I appreciate the second chance that the Twins are giving me.

  Delmon Young

  Baseball, Stupid, Responsibility

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• It's the best feeling in the world . The game's on the line, and you're the guy in the spotlight.

  Eric Gagne

  Games, Guy, Feelings

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• I want to shine a spotlight on a new generation of women, who are creating, funding and managing some of the hottest companies in tech today. But I wanted to do more than share their professional stories. I wanted to share their personal journeys, too.

  Willow Bay

  Journey, Creating, Shining

  Source: www.glamour.com

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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

  Shining, Risk, Pipeline

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If my extensive collection of all 53 Now That’s What I Call Music compilations is any indication, I am both qualified and honored to join Ludacris in hosting this amazing show that spotlights the best music and artists of the year. I had so much fun hosting the Billboard Music Awards last year and I can’t wait to be back!

  Chrissy Teigen

  Music, Fun, Artist

  "Ludacris and Chrissy Teigen to Host 2015 Billboard Music Awards" by Joe Lynch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 30, 2015.

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• I never thought of myself as any kind of a film star, as many films as I've made - and I've made some really fun movies with good people. I've always been paired with someone because I'm not really box office, in that carrying-a-picture sense. I've always been busy, but not in the spotlight.

  Lily Tomlin

  Stars, Fun, People

  Source: deadline.com

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• Whoever we love, she or he is always under the bright spotlight on our stage and anything else is just a decor under the dimness!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Stage, Decor

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• There's that old cliché which has a lot of basis in truth, that all music journalists are failed rock stars. They all harbour the inner feeling they should be up under the spotlight and the microphone is there for them.

  Sylvie Simmons

  Stars, Rocks, Feelings

  Source: www.elsewhere.co.nz

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• I want to feel like the things I did made a difference. That's one of the reasons I spend time greeting people on rope lines, because I'm always thinking, 'Maybe this interaction, particularly if I'm meeting kids, will change someone's life.' That's how I think about the work I do as First Lady. It's a rare spotlight. I want to make sure I don't waste it.

  Michelle Obama

  Kids, Thinking, Differences

  Source: www.people.com

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• Basketball gave me a lot, which is why I want to stay connected with this sport later on, maybe working with young people. But it would be more in the background. Being in the spotlight was never really my thing. I never wanted to be famous.

  Dirk Nowitzki

  Basketball, Sports, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Any additional spotlight you can put onto an opening of a film is a great thing to get.

  Tim Bevan

  Film, Great Things, Opening

  Source: deadline.com

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• I've gotten death threats, yes. I have. I think anytime you shine a spotlight on homosexuality or minorities and you try and say they are as normal or as worthy as acceptance as others, the people who are on the fringe don't like that and they will come after you. And they have come after me.

  Ryan Murphy

  Acceptance, Thinking, People

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• As a person in the public eye, I have always felt that if I have the good fortune of being able to shed a spotlight on different causes that I feel passionately about...

  Scarlett Johansson

  Eye, Different, Able

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings I made them as an endless series. But I was never serious about it being an endless series. It was just an implied endless series. The theater means you just have to make it look good for that moment in the spotlight.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Mean, Looks

  Interview with Anthony Haden-Guest, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• 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.

  Richard Ashcroft

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.excellentonline.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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• I kinda threw the spotlight away from me for a little while.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Littles

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• I've never felt like a trophy wife. I have been able to learn a lot in my role. The fact that you do not have any formal powers does not mean that one does not have a good starting point to give their opinion on important value questions. I really feel that I can put the spotlight on many issues that are important in Norwegian society. And I am very happy.

  Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway

  Mean, Important Values, Issues

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• To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of mud and scurries along the damp edges of what is most commonly praised. And sometimes its invisibility is a blessing. Swamps and bogs are places of transition and wild growth, breeding grounds, experimental labs where organisms and ideas have the luxury of being out of the spotlight, where the imagination can mutate and mate, send tendrils into and out of the water.

  Barbara Hurd

  Blessing, Ideas, Luxury

  Barbara Hurd (2003). “Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Over the course of my life I've had more than my fair share of romantic relationships with wonderful women, many moved on to live happy, healthy, and productive lives, and I'm pleased to say remain dear friends today. Sadly, there are a few who have chosen to rewrite history in an attempt to stay in the spotlight. I guess, as the old saying goes: You can't win 'em all!

  Hugh Hefner

  Life, Winning, Healthy

  "Hugh Hefner Says Ex Holly Madison Has 'Chosen to Rewrite History to Stay in the Spotlight'" by Sierra Marquina, www.usmagazine.com. June 21, 2015.

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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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• Normally, if I'm being acknowledged it is for something in front of the camera. This puts the spotlight on the fact that there are opportunities other than just being an actor.

  Melvin Van Peebles

  Opportunity, Cameras, Actors

  Source: aalbc.com

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• 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

  Purpose, Darfur, Has Beens

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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