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• Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.

  Valerie Bertinelli

  Party, Coffee, Home

  "Valerie Bertinelli comes clean on drugs, infidelity" by Jen Brown and Bob Considine, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they crave.

  Gail Caldwell

  Suffering, Shy, Publicity

  Gail Caldwell (2010). “Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship”, p.17, Random House

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• Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.

  Nas

  Hip Hop, Noise, Hips

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

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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 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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• In Nigeria, the hopes of millions have been pinned on me. Everything I do is under the spotlight. If they want to sell papers, they put me on the cover. If they want to gain popular support in an election, they ask for my endorsement. Where does someone like me go when we need a safe place to be and learn? To renew, deepen the foundation of our work, and sharpen our focus? To share experiences, lessons and build relationships with others that can advance our thinking, approach and capacity? We go to the YES! Jam, which gives us all that and so much more.

  Hafsat Abiola

  Thinking, Giving, Focus

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• Scholars have endlessly written about antebellum Protestant thinking about slavery. Now, finally, Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon turns a spotlight on a new, crucial question: how did antebellum Protestants parse capitalism? For anyone who seeks to understand the political economy of the antebellum era-or, indeed, the complex entanglement of Christianity and capitalism today-this book is critical. I, for one, am very grateful to Stewart Davenport for having written it.

  Lauren F. Winner

  Grateful, Book, Thinking

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• The values of Islam are expressed by Muslims clearly. September 11 changed the world, and put Muslims on the spotlight.

  Karen Armstrong

  September 11, Islam, World

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• Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you.

  Chad Harbach

  Basketball, Soccer, Baseball

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• My ex-wife was trying to be nice once, so she took me to a concert in Los Angeles. I went with her to Symphony Hall, and the orchestra was playing. When the show started, the spotlight was sharp on this one man (Andres Segovia) and he had sombrero on and his guitar propped up like this and, oh man ... he was a master ! - I really heard it. That one guitar sounded like a whole orchestra to me.

  B. B. King

  Music, Nice, Men

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• Me with nothing left to lose, plotting my big revenge in the spotlight. Give me violent revenge fantasies as a coping mechanism.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Revenge, Coping Mechanisms, Giving

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.181, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else.

  Marion Cotillard

  Refreshing, Situation

  "Marion Cotillard In Vogue: Talks About The People Living Inside Her". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

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• I’m not telling people where to give money, but if there is to be a spotlight shed on me, then I’d like to direct that spotlight onto causes I think are worthy or onto interesting, progressive figures.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Thinking, People, Giving

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

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• But I think, if you're in the spotlight, people are going to say bad things, and that's just the way it is.

  Tommy Hilfiger

  Thinking, People, Way

  Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2011.

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• I'm sometimes asked why it is that for 30 years we seem to have trouble in the United States enforcing the rules against illegal immigration, and I'll tell you what the answer is. The answer is that when the television cameras turn off and the spotlight moves to something else, there are a host of interest groups and advocacy groups who work very, very hard to make it difficult to enforce these rules. I'm not commenting adversely on their motivation, but I can tell you the effect of all of this is to wear down the ability of an agency to enforce the law.

  Michael Chertoff

  Motivation, Moving, Agency

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• You're not only the spotlight in which you perform, but the shadows where you practice.

  Debby Ryan

  Practice, Shadow

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• No one should be ashamed to speak up. Shame makes it easy for neglect and abuse and bullying to stay huddled together in their dark corner. It’s time to throw the switch on this spotlight. If I can inspire other kids to speak their truth, then everything I’ve been through will have been worth it.

  Susane Colasanti

  Bullying, Kids, Dark

  Susane Colasanti (2012). “Keep Holding On”, p.121, Penguin

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• With Climate Change as a Security Risk, WBGU has compiled a flagship report on an issue that quite rightly is rising rapidly up the international political agenda. The authors pull no punches on the likelihood of increasing tensions and conflicts in a climatically constrained world and spotlight places where possible conflicts may flare up in the 21st century unless climate change is checked. The report makes it clear that climate policy is preventative security policy.

  Achim Steiner

  Flare Up, Issues, Political

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• You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.

  Kenny Chesney

  Thinking, People, Feelings

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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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