#spotlight

In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

#clear #covert #even #governing #hiding

I'm not one of those actors who needs the media spotlight all the time to feel gratified. I'm happy to do one project a year and take the rest of the year off as long as that project is special. ↗

— Macaulay Culkin

#gratified #happy #i #long #media

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

#famous #figure #get #glaring #gradual

The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more and more of those folks we place on pedestals aren't even pausing to consider an option other than lying. ↗

— Michael Musto

#consider #difference #even #fact #fame

Love makes you stupid. Love makes you weak. Love will kill you all one day, and it’s going to kill you today. ↗

— J.X. Burros

#love #scarlet-spotlight #vampire #death

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

— Heath Ledger

#funny #good #i #just #naturally

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

— David Beckham

#go #i #learning #live #me

Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it. ↗

— Lance Bass

#out #spotlight #unfortunately #want #you

There's a lot of instant spotlight and pressure when it comes to a Bond song. ↗

— Barbara Broccoli

#comes #instant #lot #pressure #song

The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#came #cause #changed #early #i