Shy Quotes - Page 10

• 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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• There aren't many shy writers left.

  Jay McInerney

  Left

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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'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 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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• 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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• One thing I think celebrities shy away from is exposing the reality that we're all the same. Somebody's not more important because they have a Bentley or a big house or a famous boyfriend or plastic surgery - we're all the same.

  Aubrey O'Day

  Thinking, Reality, House

  "Aubrey O’Day: ‘Last night I was stolen by a hawk’". PopWrap interview, pagesix.com. October 22, 2009.

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• Being an actress, I find myself people-watching and I can be quite shy.

  Emma Watson

  People, Actresses, I Can

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• From a timid shy girl I had become a woman of resolute character, who could no longer be frightened by the struggle with troubles.

  Anna Dostoyevskaya

  Girl, Struggle, Character

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• I'm actually introverted and shy.

  Ryan Tedder

  Introverted

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• I am a very private person. I still get shy at times.

  Amy Weber

  Persons, Stills

  "Interview: Amy Weber interview". www.askmen.com.

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• I cannot shy away from controversy. I don't know if it's my Irish blood, but I love it.

  Gina McCarthy

  Blood, Controversy, Knows

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• In general, the auditions I go up for are very sparse, I guess because of my ethnicity. And the characters are very similar: shy, innocent and naive; the connotations that come from the way that I look.

  Katie Leung

  Character, Ethnicity, Looks

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• I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band.

  Yul Vazquez

  Children, Kids, Dark

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• Journalism is a voyeuristic vocation that attracts to its employment many people who are often naturally shy and insatiably curious, and each day they are assigned to view the world with a critical eye and a detached sense of intimacy.

  Gay Talese

  Eye, Views, People

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• Shy gold begins to peep through the sombre green - the wattle's wedding dress - and Spring is near. Then suddenly it seems, one golden morning, the Bush awakes, a living thing. Flowers bloom, birds sing, and all the world puts on its gayest dress to greet the laughing Spring.

  C. J. Dennis

  Nature, Morning, Laughter

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• I'm certainly not shy, but I like playing it because I love those characters that are incredibly confident but really still a mess.

  Melissa McCarthy

  Character, Mess, Stills

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• In today's world you have to interact. You can't be some difficult, shy person who is not able to look somebody in the face; you have to present yourself. You have to know how to talk about your vision, your focus and what you believe in.

  Anna Wintour

  Believe, Focus, Vision

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• Why do people not listen when you say no? Why do they think you are too stupid or too young to understand? Why do they think you are too shy to reply? Why do they keep badgering you until you will say yes?

  Sharon Creech

  Stupid, Thinking, People

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• So many people shy away from using color in their homes for fear of getting it wrong...But ignorance and fear are no reason to live in a bland box.

  Jonathan Adler

  Home, Ignorance, Color

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• I like visual images and there are certainly other bands that have strong visual images going all the way back to Elvis Presley, but it's kind of like that's never really been my bag. Probably because I'm too shy.

  Black Francis

  Strong, Bags, Band

  "Pixies Interview". Interview with Chris Carle, www.ign.com. July 6, 2009.

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• In movies, you get to explore parts of yourself that in real life, people shy away from, like looking stupid or embarrassing yourself or getting too angry, anything inappropriate. As an actor, you walk into those moments.

  Jess Weixler

  Real, Stupid, People

  "Jess Weixler Is Comedy's Next Big Thing". Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.elle.com. March 28, 2013.

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• The biggest thing you can give a kid is self-esteem, so that they're not shy to do different things.

  Magnus

  Self Esteem, Kids, Giving

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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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