Spotlight Quotes

• Stay true in the dark, and humble in the spotlight.

  Harold B. Lee

  Humble, Dark, Stay True

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• The cosmic spotlight isn't pointed at you; it radiates from within you.

  Marianne Williamson

  Cosmic, Within You

  Twitter post from Jun 22, 2012

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  You could be your own spotlight!

  Patrick Stump

  Song: Spotlight, 2011

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• Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.

  Lauren Conrad

  Betrayal, Years, People

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• Anybody in the spotlight can get lost in that if they are not careful.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Lost, Careful, Ifs

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• How do you judge the brightness of a light when you’re the source? A spotlight can never see the shadows it casts.

  Neal Shusterman

  Light, Judging, Shadow

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “UnWholly”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• It's amazing to impact people's lives - it's a cool thing to have the spotlight and be able to reassure people, to say, "It's OK to be you."

  Kelly Clarkson

  Impact, People, Able

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by.

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Years

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• So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight.

  Lucinda Williams

  People

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• One thing modeling taught me is that the spotlight can change everything.

  Liya Kebede

  Taught, Modeling, One Thing

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• I liked being in the spotlight.

  Scott Caan

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• I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

  Brian Eno

  Roles, Behind The Scenes, Focal Point

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• I know I'll be under a spotlight, I know I'll be under the microscope.

  Lisa Guerrero

  Literature, Microscopes, Knows

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• The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.

  Alan Bennett

  Sunday, People, Majority

  Alan Bennett (2008). “Writing Home”, p.151, Faber & Faber

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• At first you can stand the spotlight in your eyes. Then it blinds you. Others can see you, but you cannot see them.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Eye, Firsts, Recognition

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• We're all given a window of opportunity, I think all artists are, of any genre. A window when you're truly relevant, the spotlight's on you and people are watching what you do.

  Eric Church

  Artist, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Who the hell is Eric Church?". Interview with Bill DeYoung, www.connectsavannah.com. January 31, 2012.

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• I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.

  Hakeem Olajuwon

  Basketball, Winning, Thinking

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• I hate it when people pray on the screen. It's not because I hate praying, but whenever I see an actor fold his hands and look up in the spotlight, I'm lost. There's only one other thing in the movies I hate as much, and that's sex. You just can't get in bed or pray to God and convince me on the screen.

  Orson Welles

  Sex, Hate, Hands

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

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• I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.

  Patricia Heaton

  Needs, Actresses, Fulfillment

  Patricia Heaton (2002). “Motherhood and Hollywood: How To Get a Job Like Mine”, p.117, Villard

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• I don't really live my life in the media spotlight. People don't know that much really about me or what I think.

  Emmy Rossum

  Thinking, Media, People

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  Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

  Sam Ewing

  Motivational, Success, Attitude

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• I try to be good at it, whatever part I'm playing - even in my daily life or when the spotlight hits me on the stage to perform - I gotta be alive every second in this world. With or without the applause!

  Dolly Parton

  Trying, Alive, World

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.

  Vincent Cassel

  Stage

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• What I'm concerned about is the views of many Democrats who know their states, who know how hard it is to win a general election. And it also will push whoever the nominee is into the spotlight. I've been vetted. There's hardly anything you don't know about me. And I think it's fair to say that whoever is in that position, Senator Bernie Sanders or anyone else who might have run, will face the most withering onslaught.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Thinking, Winning

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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• I'm kind of a low-key guy. The spotlight doesn't suit me. I'm more of a side dish--cole slaw or French fries or a Wham! backup singer.

  Haruki Murakami

  Keys, Guy, Side Dishes

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from May 27, 2014

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