Shy Quotes - Page 24

• My relationship with my grandmother has gone from strength to strength. As a shy, younger man it could be harder to talk about weighty matters. It was: 'This is my grandmother who is the Queen, and these are serious historical subjects.'

  Prince William

  Queens, Grandmother, Men

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• Do not be shy to call customers who owe you money. It works.

  Felix Dennis

  Customers

  Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.90, Penguin

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• It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Men, Awkward, Oneself

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.9483, Delphi Classics

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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 mean, it didn't matter to me that there were people, it didn't matter that I was shy Just the sound was so captivating that it helped me to get rid of those inhibitions.

  Eric Clapton

  Mean, People, Sound

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• In school I was pretty quiet. Kinda shy until my junior year. But at home I was a freak.

  Dane Cook

  Home, School, Years

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• I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Lonely, Kids, College

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• I was so shy. Instead of waiting in line with other kids at lunch, I'd go to a corner and buy a pretzel and orange juice. I think I had that for lunch the first three years of high school.

  Peter Facinelli

  School, Kids, Thinking

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• The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls a fig a fig and a spade a spade. He should yield to neither hatred nor affection, not should be unsparing and unpitying. He should be neither shy nor deprecating, but an impartial judge, giving each side all it deserves but no more. He should know in his writing no country and no city; he should bow to no authority and acknowledge no king. He should never consider what this or that man will think, but should state the facts as they really occurred.

  Lucian

  Country, Kings, Integrity

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• Mother my friends are no longer my friends
  And the games we once played have no meaning
  I've gone serious and shy and they can't figure why
  So they've left me to my own daydreaming.

  Suzanne Vega

  Mother, Games, Gone

  Song: Bad Wisdom

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• One must shy away from questionable undertakings, even when they bear a high-sounding name.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Names, Ballet

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.443, Princeton University Press

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• You're dealing in magic-it's this intangible thing that has to happen. And to seek it out too much might not be a good idea. Because, you know, it's very shy, too. But once you've got the essence of them, you can work songs and improve them. You see if there's a better word, or a better change.

  Tom Petty

  Song, Essence, Ideas

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• I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

  Matthew Macfadyen

  Birthday, Children, Party

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• I was a shy, quiet kid. I was happiest playing by myself with my toys, rather than hanging around people.

  Christian Slater

  Kids, People, Toys

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

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• If you're shy, get the hell over it: You're slamming the door in your own face.

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Doors, Faces, Hell

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• I can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.

  Ben Whishaw

  People, Trying, Overcoming

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• I am extremely shy. I am not happy in crowds of people.

  Glenn Close

  People, Crowds, Not Happy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.

  Hayden Christensen

  Revenge, Men, Giving

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• I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 17. There were boys at school that I would find out later had a crush on me but I was too shy to talk to them.

  Blake Lively

  Crush, School, Boys

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• I'm definitely shy, so it was definitely acting for me to drop a trench coat and be in a bikini and try to get my cousins out of trouble by using my body. That was definitely acting.

  Jessica Simpson

  Cousin, Acting, Trying

  "Dieting Miss Daisy". www.mirror.co.uk. August 23, 2005.

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• There is this immediate connection, this intimacy when you're acting because there's no room to be polite or shy. Also, as an actor I get to connect with women I've never met before.

  Jessica Chastain

  Acting, Connections, Actors

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

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• I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong.

  Hakeem Olajuwon

  Strong, Voice, Sometimes

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• I'm tough on the outside and soft on the inside [...] I'm really a shy guy.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Squash, Guy, Tough

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

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• I’m just a real loner kind of person, and yeah, kinda dark. But I’m happy. Not sad. I’m just shy and nervous.

  Clea DuVall

  Real, Dark, Loner

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• Before I started touring, I worked with someone to help me, even physically, because I was so shy. And you can't be shy going onstage. So I had to push myself in a direction that wasn't myself.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Helping, Help Me, Touring

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

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