Shy Quotes - Page 7

• I could always make people around me laugh. It was more of a defense mechanism more than anything else, because I was a pretty shy guy.

  Tim Hawkins

  People, Laughing, Guy

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• I think - I think I've always been kind of - I used to think of myself as a piece of rubber when I was a kid because I was kind of very shy and very - very emotional about things, but I kind of would bounce back.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Kids, Emotional, Thinking

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• I'm kind of shy and quiet. But I'm only shy in my personal life. If I'm working, somehow I'm not and it goes away.

  Riley Keough

  Quiet, Kind, Ifs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'd always been the confident guy in school. I was good in math and English, but I was still shy. I couldn't get up and speak in front of people. I was asked to do it when I was 10 years old and I burst out crying.

  Chris Vance

  School, Math, Years

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• If you want to do something big in your life, you must remember that shyness is only the mind. If you think shy, you act shy. If you think confident you act confident. Therefore never let shyness conquer your mind.

  Arfa Karim

  Thinking, Mind, Want

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• I've always been very shy of doing television. I've always said 'no.' Not to be disrespectful to anyone - I didn't want to say 'yes' and then let people down.

  Naomi Campbell

  People, Television, Want

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• I grew up in one of the biggest high schools in the world, and that's the Disney Channel. Everybody was falling in love with each other or not liking each other, and it was exhausting and I was the shy one in the corner. And now I'm so opinionated, and I don't have time for the cattiness. I have good people around me, and I'm glad I'm at the place I'm in. I wish I was there back then.

  Selena

  Falling In Love, School, People

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• I've always been kind of a shy guy. Not very outgoing. I might not start a conversation, but if somebody else does, I'll chat away.

  Retief Goosen

  Guy, Doe, Might

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• I speak many times about Stephen Ireland, that he is shy like a hedgehog.

  Giovanni Trapattoni

  Hedgehogs, Speak, Ireland

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• I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy.

  Lara Flynn Boyle

  Fun, Sweat, Tonight

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• I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.

  Anne Stevenson

  Friends, Art, Multiple Meanings

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• You each have the same energy and it sings within you. You need not be shy of it, it is your own. You need not look to gurus, or Gods, or Seths. It dwells within your own being.

  Jane Roberts

  Spiritual, Law Of Attraction, Energy

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• I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.

  Raf Simons

  Years, Publicity, Bases

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• I think that you may find that Tamera's a little more vibrant and energetic, but I'm much more likely to go up to a person and say, "Hi, I'm Tia, nice to meet you". Wheras Tamera is like...well ...she's a little shy. She's down to earth. I'm more extroverted and she's more introverted when meeting people.

  Tia Mowry

  Nice, Thinking, People

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

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• But then the fate of shy people is that all of their fears usually come true.

  Manu Joseph

  Fate, People

  Manu Joseph (2015). “The Illicit Happiness Of Other People”, p.6, HarperCollins Publishers India

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• I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.

  Garrison Keillor

  Editors, People, Magazines

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• I've been able to perform in front of thousands of people on stage in a character that's nothing like me. I'm very shy.

  Romeo Santos

  Character, People, Able

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• No one really knew Freddie. He was shy, gentle and kind. He wasn't the person he put over on stage.

  Roger Meddows Taylor

  Kind, Stage, Gentle

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• The soul of rock 'n' roll is mistakes, and making mistakes work for you. The people who shy away from mistakes and play it safe have no business playing rock 'n' roll.

  Paul Westerberg

  Mistake, Rocks, Play

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• A championship contender in the early twentieth century needed charisma and a knack for cultivating sponsorship, and Rubinstein was the epitome of the shy and unsocial chess player. Now matter how great his chess skills, he lacked the people skills to be a self-promoter and fund-raiser.

  Garry Kasparov

  Success, Player, Self

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• I was always shy and had a huge fear of being onstage.

  Colbie Caillat

  Huge

  "Colbie Caillat" with Erin Clements, www.elle.com. July 1, 2009.

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• I have a good Muslim friend who comes over to my house. Good guy; reads the Qur'an in Arabic. He comes over to my house and we talk about faith and we talk about things we have in common, but I can't shy away from the differences that we have. So I talk about why I'm not a Muslim and about the evidence that exists that show Christianity is true.

  Lee Strobel

  Differences, House, Guy

  "Interview: Lee Strobel Makes Case for Faith ... Again". Interview with Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. September 25, 2008.

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• You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.

  Maj Sjowall

  Girl, Attitude, Growing Up

  "The queen of crime". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2009.

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• I definitely wouldn't shy away from doing another action based project, but I feel like my forte is more like playing real, ordinary people. I'm a girl's girl.

  Rachael Taylor

  Girl, Real, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm actually introverted and shy.

  Ryan Tedder

  Introverted

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