Spotlight Quotes - Page 8

• I'm certainly not your typical front-man material. Some people love being on stage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking on stage.

  Dan Auerbach

  Love Is, Men, Talking

  Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 26, 2012.

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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

  Ifs, I Can

  "Harvey Fierstein Opens Up About His Fiery Op-Ed on Russia's Anti-Gay Campaign (Q&A)". Interview with Seth Abramovitch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 22, 2013.

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• For better or worse, when you're running for mayor, there's a little bit of a spotlight on you.

  Christine Quinn

  Running, Littles, Mayors

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• Untested assumptions and lazy habits of thought can be shown up, once put in a spotlight of a different hue.

  Julian Baggini

  Lazy, Different, Hue

  "Great minds don't think alike" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2008.

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• I'm just not one of those naturally funny, relaxed actors who enjoy the spotlight and are so good at it.

  Heath Ledger

  Funny, Actors, Enjoy

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• I get scared of a lot of attention. I get scared of the spotlight. And I'm not talking about on the basketball court.

  Jeremy Lin

  Basketball, Talking, Attention

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• 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

  Sight, People, Facts

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

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• 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

  Awards, Records, Chance

  "Bruno Mars: The complete Q&A interview". Interview with George Varga, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. June 9, 2011.

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• By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' and others. You just never know, do you?

  Danica McKellar

  Jobs, Math, Media

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• 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

  Able, Figures, Process

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• Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.

  Mandy Moore

  Girl, Growing Up, Self

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• As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave... walking the plank... willingly... It was sink or swim. The very notion of standing there, alone, I found beautiful.

  Steven Morrissey

  Beautiful, Children, Brave

  "Morrissey interview: Big mouth strikes again". Interview with Simon Armitage, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2010.

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• I love hearing my song on the radio the first time, but when it comes on again, I change the station. I already have so much of the spotlight on me. I don't need any more.

  Katy Perry

  Song, Needs, Radio

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• The way you really find out about the performer's seriousness about the cause is how long they stay with it when the spotlight gets turned off. You see a lot of celebrities switch gears. They go from the environment to animal rights to obesity or whatever. That I don't have a lot of respect for.

  Robert Redford

  Animal, Rights, Long

  “Robert Redford: What I've Learned” by Matthew Belloni, www.esquire.com. August 18, 2014.

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• The lifestyle I lead as a footballer means I am always in the spotlight.

  Wayne Rooney

  Mean, Lifestyle, Footballer

  "Wayne Rooney cheats on pregnant wife Coleen with £1k-a-night prostitute" by Simon Wright, www.mirror.co.uk. September 4, 2010.

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• I've been a spy for almost all of my adult life - I don't like being in the spotlight.

  Edward Snowden

  Spy, Adults

  "Snowden made cautious approach to Post reporter, said he knew the risk he's taking". www.foxnews.com. June 9, 2013.

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• The red-carpet spotlight is a little bit more nerve-racking when you haven't been doing it all the time.

  Shania Twain

  Nerves, Littles, Red

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

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• 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

  Being Happy, Nice, Jokes

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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

  People, Pieces, Want

  "Jane Lynch on How She Almost Wreck-It Ralph -ed Her Career". Interview with Jim Hill, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2012.

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• 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

  Air, Limelight, Certain

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• 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

  Kids, People, Guests

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• I think there absolutely are so many lessons that can be learned from sports and so many different positive things that don't necessarily get the spotlight and the attention.

  Kristopher Belman

  Sports, Thinking, Different

  "Before Being An NBA Superstar, LeBron Was Just 'Bron'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 14, 2009.

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• I always think that the people who have the hardest time in the spotlight are the people who have unearned fame, like the girlfriends of people who are famous or people who become figures of attention, not through their own merit.

  Rosamund Pike

  Girlfriend, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• The word 'abstract' comes from the light tower of the philosophers. One of their spotlights that they have particularly focused on 'Art'. [Abstraction was] not so much what you could paint but rather what you could not paint. You could not paint a house or a tree or a mountain. It was then that subject matter came into existence as something you ought not have.

  Willem de Kooning

  Art, Light, House

  "Abstract Expressionist Painting in America". Book by William C. Seitz, p. 104, 1983.

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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

  Shadow, Found, Backgrounds

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