I wanted to be there as much as anybody but I want to win - not turn up as a shadow of myself when someone could come in and it could be the start of their career".
The most uncanny impersonation is, after all, an approximation, an interpretation, a shadow of, a substitute for, someone else's own irreplaceable greatness -- a greatness that is all over "Mr. Dynamite," from downbeat to fade out.
If we knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that someone has a nuclear device in downtown Toronto that's going to go off within a defined period of time, and we've tried to talk to you and you're not cooperating, is there a point where for the greater good, law enforcement or some regulatory body should take more severe action?
Hers is an extraordinary, deeply troubling account of a life lived in the shadow of someone who very cleverly embittered her so that no one else would ever want her - a life taken from her, so that she only felt real in relation to him.
You have said about Wonderland that you wanted to explore the question of how do you find your voice in the shadow of someone who not only had a big voice, but spoke a different artistic language altogether?
Some of the pieces in the exhibit seem to speak to solitude as we might normally think of it: a photo by Matthew Connors shows an old man in a white T-shirt and khaki shorts — it could be somebody's grandpa — looking tiny and starkly alone as he stands on an empty sidewalk, accompanied only by the shadow of someone standing outside the frame.
In order to emerge from the shadow of someone else's legendary performance, a singer must reconceive the song from the ground up.
However, you still can't escape the sensation that Top Gear will remain a shadow of its former self until someone does the decent thing and puts it out of its misery.
A clone would live his or her whole life in the shadow of someone who had already lived.
What is it like to grow up in the shadow of someone so dedicated and so charismatic and then to seek to become a separate, fulfilled individual?
