Shy Quotes - Page 23

• I'm a shy person. I don't know if it's in my DNA to share with the world.

  Lisa Bonet

  Dna, World, Share

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• Soccer has given me a place to express myself, fully and openly. To not be shy. To feel. To be crazy. To try things I might not try. To be honest in relationships. To make mistakes and realize that they're not life-shattering.

  Brandi Chastain

  Soccer, Mistake, Crazy

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• Men, as a general rule, shy away from therapy because there is no obvious way to keep score.

  Merrill Markoe

  Men, Way, Score

  Merrill Markoe (1994). “How to be Hap-hap-happy Like Me”, Viking Press

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• I am terribly shy, but of course no one believes me. Come to think of it, neither would I.

  Carol Channing

  Believe, Thinking, Courses

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• 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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• You've got to believe in yourself, you've got to have a very clear vision, and you've got have the fire in the belly and go out and not be shy with working because it takes a lot of work.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Believe, Fire, Vision

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.

  Michelle Shocked

  Hero, Long, Firefighter

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• You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in.

  Arundhati Roy

  Hypocrisy, Politics, Realizing

  "Arundhati Roy On the Indian Elections, Her Support for the Iraqi Resistance & the Privatization of War". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. May 19, 2004.

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• Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.

  Agatha Christie

  Writing, Aptitude, Social

  Agatha Christie (1988). “Mrs. McGinty's Dead”, Bantam Books

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• 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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• The only thing I can do is act, but it's not something I even feel comfortable doing. It costs me a lot, because I'm a shy person, even if I don't look it.

  Javier Bardem

  Looks, Cost, Doing Me

  "'Why am I doing this absurd job?'" by Kristin Hohenadel, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2001.

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• Scientists are rarely to be counted among the fun people. Awkward at parties, shy with strangers, deficient in irony - they have had no choice but to turn their attention to the close study of everyday objects.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Fun, Party, Science

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.96, Vintage

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• The breezes of the West African night were intimate and shy, licking the hair, sweeping through cotton dresses with unseemly intimacy, then disappearing into the utter blackness.

  Maya Angelou

  Night, Hair, Dresses

  Maya Angelou (2010). “All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes”, p.3, Vintage

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• Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity?

  Honore de Balzac

  Crush, Persons, Timidity

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• Our democracy is predicated on the belief that our government should be accessible by the people. We cannot allow ourselves to give in to fear or shy away from interacting with the public.

  Erik Paulsen

  Government, People, Giving

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• I am a very shy person who is just close to himself. So I would refrain from talking about my personal life.

  N. T. Rama Rao Jr.

  Talking, Refrain, Persons

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• I was mild-mannered, wore glasses, was very shy with women.

  Joe Shuster

  Glasses

  Nemo magazine (#2), 1983.

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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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• 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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• But my future is a secret. / It is as shy as a mole.

  Anne Sexton

  Future, Secret, Moles

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• One time, I brought Prince to the set. He's a friend of mine, and he asked to come. Everyone wanted to meet him, but he's a little shy.

  Kirstie Alley

  Littles, Wanted, Mines

  "'The Best TV Show That's Ever Been'". Interview with Brian Raftery, www.gq.com. September 27, 2012.

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• A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Kindness, Littles, Praise

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• a novelist's chief desire is to be as unconscious as possible. He has to induce in himself a state of perpetual lethargy. He wants life to proceed with the utmost quiet and regularity. He wants to see the same faces, to read the same books, to do the same things day after day, month after month, while he is writing, so that nothing may break the illusion in which he is living - so that nothing may disturb or disquiet the mysterious nosings about, feelings around, darts, dashes, and sudden discoveries of that very shy and illusive spirit, the imagination.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Writing, Discovery

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3994, Delphi Classics

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• Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Aunt, Littles, Instinct

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