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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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• 'The Killing' has a really great combination of qualities: Even though it's very sad and deals with mourning and grief, it's still exciting. It's about real people and it doesn't shy from the painful points of life.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Real, Grief, People

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

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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'm always a little innately shy when I first talk to a girl, and I think I always will be! But I think that's a good thing. You don't want to lose that.

  Dylan O'Brien

  Girl, Thinking, Want

  "We Are So Crushing on Dylan O'Brien, and You Will Be Too!". Interview with Caitlin Brody, www.glamour.com. October 19, 2012.

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• The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on or something like that. I think that you rely on it. Well, I don't think I'm cute and no one wants to hang out with me - I'd better start trying to make people laugh. I think there's an element of that in there.

  Kaitlin Olson

  Cute, School, Thinking

  "Kaitlin Olson, Tualatin native, stars in 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia'". Interview with Jake Ten Pas, www.oregonlive.com. September 15, 2010.

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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 a very shy child.

  Jim Parsons

  Children

  "Jim Parsons On The Science Of Sheldon, 'Big Bang'". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. September 28, 2010.

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• I was very shy when I was younger. But I did have a terrible temperament. I would get angry very quickly, but the rest of the time I was this big goofball, playing the drums in a band and making out with girls.

  Jeremy Renner

  Girl, Band, Bigs

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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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• 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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• I was shy as a child. Now I'm not really shy any more, unless I'm with shy people. I find it contagious and I don't know what to say. But I don't think shyness is something one should feel apologetic about.

  Nigella Lawson

  Children, Thinking, People

  "A Woman of Extremes". Interview with Nigel Farndale, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 14, 2001.

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• I am drawn to people that are not going to shy away from the very dark, scary stuff of the human condition and in a lot of cases people need alcohol or drugs to create poetry and poetic pose that can take you so far out there where you are still able to recognize yourself and then to bring you back home where you're not the same person you were when you left.

  Anne Lamott

  Home, Dark, People

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 6, 2010.

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• I'm a shy person, so I get really nervous going into interviews.

  Skylar Grey

  Interviews, Nervous, Get Real

  "Skylar Grey on Her New Album, Eminem's Mystique and Why She Almost Quit Music (Q&A)". Interview with Steve Baltin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 9, 2013.

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• The moments when something new has entered us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, everything in us withdraws, a silence arises, and the new experience, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it all and says nothing.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  New Experiences, Silence, Feelings

  Rainer Maria Rilke, Maurice Betz, Will Stone (2012). “Rilke in Paris”, p.51, Hesperus Press

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• I learned that you can constantly improve, and that you should not be shy about your views, and about the direction that you believe is right.

  Christine Lagarde

  Believe, Views, Should

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