Shy Quotes - Page 20

• Exactly this type of people like you, at the beginning you're gonna be shy but later on you're gonna jump on a chair and you will scream hit him!

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Motivation, People, Fighter

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• I'm quite introverted but I'm not shy.

  Marian Keyes

  Introverted

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• I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!

  Natalie Merchant

  Crush, Girl, Years

  "Natalie Merchant: mother superior" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. July 08, 2010.

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• I still have shy qualities but nobody would believe that, just because we’re in the forefront and I can talk a lot of mess and I can run my mouth.

  Shemar Moore

  Running, Believe, Quality

  "Shemar Moore: Criminal Minded [INTERVIEW]". Interview with Kelley L. Carter, www.ebony.com. April 24, 2013.

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• I didn't have that many friends my first few years of high school. It was very cliquey and I'm super shy, so it was hard to make friends.

  Dylan O'Brien

  School, Years, Firsts

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

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• I hate to think of a day where a compelling book or a compelling authorial voice would be lost simply because that person doesn't have a Web site. But I think that, to use the Internet in a positive way, to turn people on to reading, is something that authors shouldn't really shy away from necessarily.

  Marisha Pessl

  Hate, Reading, Book

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• Not a lot of people know me outside of athletics and believe it or not I am actually quite shy. The exhilaration of a win or tears after falling are the extremes. It takes me a while to get to know someone, but once I do I am very loyal to my old friends.

  Sally Pearson

  Fall, Believe, Winning

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

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• I was not a Southern California girl. I hated having my photograph taken. I felt shy and embarrassed around famous people.

  Allegra Huston

  Girl, Taken, California

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• The shy and the extroverted have this in common — that they both fancy they are the center of attention.

  Robert Breault

  Anxiety, Attention, Fancy

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• You know as I started as a shy young conductor, I always wanted to cooperate. To build up the musicians. To help them to be better than without a conductor. And sometimes young talented musicians have to be encouraged.

  Kurt Masur

  Musician, Helping, Sometimes

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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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• Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Social Taboos, Morality, Virtue

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• Love taught me to cry
  So come on courage!
  Teach me to be shy.

  Damien Rice

  Sadness, Cry, Teach

  "Song: 'Cannonball'". 1993.

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• I can't tell stories to save my life. I like to have fun, and I go out and have a lot of fun. But I'm not really an entertainer that way. I'm much more shy.

  Marisa Tomei

  Fun, Stories, Way

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• The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Revenge, Men, People

  Jerome K. Jerome (2008). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.101, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why.

  Diane Wakoski

  Reading, Thinking, People

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• Basically, I'm a shy human being. Very introverted.

  George Hamilton

  Introverted, Humans, Human Beings

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

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• I blush easily. I have difficulty meeting people's eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to a paralysing degree.

  Nicholson Baker

  Eye, People, Degrees

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• I'm actually very introverted. I'm very shy. I'm very emotional.

  Tom Ford

  Emotional, Introverted

  Interview with John Currin, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 30, 2010.

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