Shy Quotes - Page 16

• Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.

  Dana Spiotta

  Artist, Luck, Cost

  Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. August 23, 2011.

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• At one point in college I was so shy that I'd drop out of a class if asked to speak in front of other people.

  Joe Flanigan

  College, Class, People

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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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• I would say she's definitely not shy, like her dad

  Kim Kardashian

  Dad, Like Her, Ridiculous

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• Don't be shy. Go for it and ask your crush out.

  Gabby Douglas

  Crush, Advice, Asks

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• I'm not a real social person, I'm shy and a lot of the business is just social.

  Kim Basinger

  Real, Social, Persons

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

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• I have social anxiety. It's easier up on stage because there's security in being there. When I'm off stage I'm trying not to be a manic freak. I'm quite shy.

  Sia Furler

  Anxiety, Trying, Freak

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As Summer into Autumn slips
  And yet we sooner say
  "The Summer" than "the Autumn," lest
  We turn the sun away,
  
  And almost count it an Affront
  The presence to concede
  Of one however lovely, not
  The one that we have loved -
  
  So we evade the charge of Years
  On one attempting shy
  The Circumvention of the Shaft
  Of Life's Declivity.

  Emily Dickinson

  Summer, Autumn, Years

  Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1971). “The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.285, Biblo & Tannen Publishers

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• When I became a Sigma Chi it was great, because they were the pople I enjoyed being with and I was very proud of the association. It was kind of an instant confidence builder for me--that what I considered the best fraternity on campus had actually wanted me. And I had always been very shy and without a lot of confidence. So it was a really good social experience and for me it was also a social maturation. It was a great benefit.

  David Letterman

  Benefits, Proud, Association

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• I first started acting in primary school, just doing little plays. And from the moment I began, something just went 'click' inside me. Suddenly I wasn't shy anymore. Instead I felt confident and happy. I can remember the enormous sense of relief it gave me. I loved the feeling of making people laugh.

  Sally Hawkins

  School, Play, People

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• Swedes are a really humble and shy people in many ways, but I think it's pretty much the same as in the U.S. Little girls want to take photographs with me at lunch.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Girl, Humble, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As we all know, when you're an athlete things are a little bit easier for you. It didn't mean that what was going on inside my heart wasn't a bit of a thunderstorm, but outwardly I got along ok. I was really shy in seventh grade.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Heart, Athlete, Mean

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

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• Kids are shy and they often don't want to make eye contact or say "thank you."

  Viggo Mortensen

  Kids, Eye, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• It was so cute and she was so shy. Someone told me that Randy Orton went up and hugged her and she wouldn't let go. It was kind of cute.

  The Miz

  Cute, Letting Go, Wwe

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• Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows than those who lead an entirely godly, righteous and sober life. Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.

  Alan Bennett

  Dream, Godly, Thinking

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• We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories.

  John Thomas Sladek

  Kids, Phones, Library

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• Growing up, I was a very shy kid but I felt that being on stage or playing another character would somehow open me up. And I think it did.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Growing Up, Character, Kids

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• Me being a shy kid, very closed off, showing vulnerability in a character was sort of a safe space on stage. It's always been in my toolbox, there for me when I need it.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Character, Kids, Space

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• Well, it's true that I've never been solitary, although I spend a lot of time alone. I've never felt lonely or been shy.

  Richard E. Grant

  Lonely, Alone Time, Solitary

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• I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.

  Nigel Rees

  School, Class, Play

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• People are always saying that I must have been the class clown, with all these voices. No, I was way too shy to be the class clown; I was a class clown's writer.

  Tom Kenny

  Class, Voice, People

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

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• It was an interesting process trying to get Bob to talk about the film because he's such a shy person. He generally likes to talk when he really knows he has something to say.

  Jay Roach

  Interesting, Trying, Bob

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up being very shy, very much a bookworm, and I remember desperately wondering how to be accepted by the popular kids.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Kids, Remember, Wonder

  "Interview: Lisa Kleypas, author of 'Crystal Cove'". Interview with Pamela Clare, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. February 14, 2013.

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• I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by their childhood, or by some recent trauma or event. People are incredibly complicated. Who knows why they are the way they are?

  Rachel Kushner

  Character, People, Childhood

  "I Am a Camera: An Interview with Rachel Kushner" by Sasha Frere-Jones, www.newyorker.com. June 11, 2013.

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• You, of all people, deserve a happy ending Despite everything that happened to you, you aren't bitter You aren't cold You've just retreated a little and been shy, and that's okay If I were a fairy godmother, I would give you your heart's desire in an instant And I would wipe away your tears and tell you not to cry "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of"

  Jane Austen

  Happiness, Heart, Giving

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