Shy Quotes - Page 13

• Little Jesus, was Thou shy Once, and just so small as I? And what did it feel like to be Out of Heaven, and just like me?

  Francis Thompson

  Jesus, Heaven, Littles

  Francis Thompson (1913). “Complete Poetical Works”

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• I myself, for instance, am not especially gifted, and am shy by nature, but my gracious and merciful God and Father inclined Himself to me, and when I was weak in faith He strengthened me while I was still young. He taught me in my helplessness to rest on Him, and to pray even about little things in which another might have felt able to help himself.

  Hudson Taylor

  Father, Littles, Might

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• Have I ever been the shy retiring type? Never. Not since the day I was born.

  John Barrowman

  Born, Type, Retiring

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• To be honest, I was kind of a shy kid growing up.

  Dave Franco

  Growing Up, Kids, Honest

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

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• I'm a bit shy, I suppose, and a bit lazy.

  Joan Collins

  Lazy, Bits

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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'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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• Don't shy away from producing your own film and being in charge of its business end as well.

  Afia Nathaniel

  Film, Ends, Wells

  "TIFF Women Directors: Meet Afia Nathaniel – ‘Dukhtar’". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. September 4, 2014.

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• I've always been very shy and sheltered; I think it was a good way of starting to communicate with people. I was taught as a child never to talk about myself, never to talk about my emotions. Of course, now I talk about myself constantly. Now I have to take reverse est.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Children, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm actually much more shy and self-conscious than people's perception of me.

  Jonathan Ames

  Self, People, Perception

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• I met Méret Oppenheim when I was a very young artist just coming to New York. She really liked my early films and showed them in her beautiful old cinema in Bern, Switzerland when I didn't have the money to go back. But, "fear-love," this really means "shy love." It's about holding something back. With Méret, there was nothing oppressive or demonstrative about her affection. It was very soft.

  Rebecca Horn

  Beautiful, Mean, Artist

  "The Backbone of Rebecca Horn". Interview with Kurt McVey, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 15, 2014.

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• And I was very shy as a kid; if you sang me 'Happy Birthday,' I would cry. Quite shy. So the idea of being an actor, much less a model, was just out of this world.

  Cody Horn

  Kids, Ideas, Actors

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• Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration.

  Michel Gondry

  Wall, Revenge, Mean

  "Surreal To Reel" By Damon Wise, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2008.

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• I wasn't into acting when I was a kid. Maybe because I was shy or it didn't occur to me.

  Thomas McDonell

  Kids, Acting

  JustJared.com Interview, www.justjared.com. April 29, 2011.

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• I'm very shy in real life; I can't really hit on girls.

  Jeffrey Donovan

  Girl, Real, I Can

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• I was painfully shy, and I had tremendous difficulty making friends. So, lacking friends, I watched other people. Watching is something all writers must do, and it was in junior high that I learned to do it.

  Alex Flinn

  People, Making Friends, Juniors

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• When I was little, I had a feeling that I was going to end up being an actress. I spent a lot of time alone, I was a very shy girl, and I would pretend I was telling someone about this new role that I got.

  Summer Glau

  Girl, Feelings, Littles

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 24, 2008.

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• I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no one really gave a damn if I was shy or not, and I got over my shyness.

  Lucille Ball

  Years, Hollywood, Damn

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• Even when I became the typical shy adolescent, I never minded performing. I felt there was a kind of safety, a protection about being on stage, about losing myself in another character.

  Hayley Mills

  Character, Safety, Typical

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• As a kid, I never thought I'd be an actress. Never, ever, ever, no way. I was really shy - bordering on social disorder shy - and I was really academic.

  Rebel Wilson

  Kids, Way, Actresses

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• It is perfectly acceptable to have a physical problem in our culture, but people tend to shy away from anything that has to do with the emotions.

  John E. Sarno

  People, Culture, Emotion

  John E. Sarno (2001). “Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection”, p.52, Hachette UK

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• Being a Boy Scout saved my life. I was a bookish, introverted kid, shy and withdrawn, unhappy and easily bullied. I was also gay, although I didn't know it yet. I should've been miserable. But being a scout got me out of myself and into the world.

  Christopher Bram

  Kids, Gay, Boys

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• When a shy person smiles, it’s like the sun coming out.

  Anita Diament

  Sun, Coming Out, Persons

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• The rules, religion to religion that man set forth, made me shy away from religion and have my own one on one with God and cut out the middleman.

  Ja Rule

  Cutting, Men, Made

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

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• I don't shy away from any questions. I'm not scared of any question. I'll give you an answer. A lot of people are scared of having actual opinions out there. People are so scared of criticism I'm not scared of people disliking me.

  Ronda Rousey

  People, Giving, Criticism

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