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  • I'm not a plumber who accidentally blew up or a math professor who accidentally backed into notoriety. I have a master's from Yale drama, and I auditioned for this. So obviously I want to be in the limelight in some capacity, or I want to be in entertainment in some capacity.

    Drama   Math   Yale  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • I don't like publicity, being in the limelight.

    "Ince the manager keeps eyes open - all night". Interview With Dominic Fifield, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2006.
  • Real greatness is often humble, simple, and unobtrusive. It is not easy to trust ourselves and our actions without public affirmation. Some of the greatest works of art and the most important works of peace were created by people who had no need for the limelight. They knew that what they were doing was their call, and they did it with great patience, perseverance, and love.

    Perseverance   Art   Real  
  • Former President Bill Clinton is on the program tonight. He says that while his wife runs for president, he would like to stay out of the limelight. Well, he's certainly come to the right place. He'll be fine here.

  • I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my personal life off-limits; rather, the personal life I put on display was a blend of fact and fiction.

    Self   Two   Fiction  
  • I feel for those 19-year-olds who get thrust into the limelight that young.

    Years   Limelight   Young  
  • It's one thing to go through a crisis grandly, yet quite another to go through every day glorifying God when there is no witness, no limelight, and no one paying even the remotest attention to us.

    Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.82, Discovery House
  • I don't want my children to be at a disadvantage, growing up in the limelight, because then they have to live up to an identity already cut out for them, relating all the time to being so-and-so's daughter or so-and-so's son.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Add to this the pride of achievement; the desire to rank among the successful souls on earth, and we have the factors which have brought some of the ablest of human beings into the limelight that revealed them to an admiring world, as leaders and examples.

    Success   Pride   Science  
  • I don't know if I'd wanna be in the limelight.

    Limelight   Ifs   Knows  
  • Hmm, limelight... No, I'm not Sienna Miller or Angelina Jolie. I'm very lucky and happy, but I still find it very difficult to get good scripts and good roles. It's really a jungle out there.

    Lucky   Roles   Scripts  
    Interview With Kaleem Aftab, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 24, 2008.
  • The heart and the mind, what an enigma.

    Heart   Mind   Limelight  
    "Fictional character: Calvero". "Limelight", www.imdb.com. 1952.
  • Well, I'm not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I'm performing, that's what I'm doing. If I'm not, I don't long for it. I don't need the approval of an audience, or applause.

    Long   People   Needs  
    "American icon". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. June 14, 2003.
  • I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.

    Done   Proud   Limelight  
  • I make conscious decisions to stay out of the limelight. Without my make-up I'm pretty much the girl next door.

    Girl   Doors   Decision  
  • Living in the limelight: the universal dream for those who wish to SEEM. Those who wish to BE, must put aside the alienation, get on with the fascination, the real relation, the underlying theme.

    Dream   Real   Wish  
  • We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

    Men   Oil   Office  
  • Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending.

    "Fictional character: Calvero". "Limelight", www.imdb.com. October 16, 1952.
  • Being in the limelight with Glee, I've definitely felt pressure to stay fit. But honestly, you have to ignore it.

    Glee   Pressure   Fit  
    "Jenna Ushkowitz is your Team Seventeen Captain!" by Jenna Ushkowitz, www.seventeen.com. January 3, 2012.
  • It's a big change for a country boy like me, to be in the limelight in New York City. It was most definitely a tough adjustment.

    Country   New York   Boys  
  • Not everybody wants to have the same career. I think what’s difficult is when you have two people that do something very, very similar and they both, say, want the limelight. That’s very tricky.

    Thinking   Careers   Two  
    "Tori Amos’ ‘Night Of Hunters’ Examines Broken Relationship". Interview with Deborah Finding, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2011.
  • Coming back to a television series puts you back in the limelight and gives you a platform for your ideas. If you're not acting on a series, you don't get the ability to communicate to people.

    Ideas   People   Giving  
  • I think it's because we're not purists, we're open to all kinds of music. We're not afraid to take chances and we work really hard, and we gig relentlessly, we've been very active in the studio, we're active with the record labels that we have. So I think it's like a full-on assault. We've stalled in many different directions and it kept us in the limelight for so many years.

  • I wasn't a perfect thing at 17. I didn't have confidence. I was hunched over and real embarrassed, and I didn't want to be in the limelight. But it changed over time.

    Real   Perfect   Want  
  • I try to make very careful decisions about what I choose to do, and it's - I know that unfortunately one of the misperceptions about me, I think, is that I'm sort of a moth to the limelight.

    "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. January 3, 2000.
  • When you reach a certain status in Hollywood, you have to play a lot of games to stay in the limelight. It becomes more about being famous than being an actor.

    Play   Games   Hollywood  
    "Jason Lee: 20(ish) Questions". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. June 1, 2006.
  • Being in the limelight has its minuses.

  • "The life of the union depends upon more people getting to share the limelight, because with the limelight also comes responsibility and with the responsibility comes a little sharing of the load." "There isn't enough money to organize poor people. There never is enough money to organize anyone. If you put it on the basis of money, you're not going to succeed."

  • I served. And now it's time for the new man to serve. I have zero desire to be in the limelight.

    Zero   Men   Desire  
    Source: www.aarp.org
  • Certain shades of limelight wreck a girl's complexion.

    Girl   Wrecks   Shade  
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