Shy Quotes - Page 29

• I've learned the importance of speaking up for myself and voicing my opinions and my ideas. I'm definitely a shy person.

  Fiona Gubelmann

  Ideas, Speaking Up, Opinion

  Source: collider.com

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• It's just the overall lack of privacy. I've always been a very shy person and so it invades that a lot. It goes with the territory so I'm very grateful to be able to do what I do. I love it and I love acting. I love being on set. I love the whole practice of filmmaking but the lack of privacy is hard. Fans are amazing because for the most part it's just love that they are sending to you. It's beautiful.

  Austin Butler

  Beautiful, Grateful, Love Is

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• There are moments, moments of fun but it's never necessarily a wink/wink. It's just interesting and odd and crazy things happen inside the world just like a crazy thing happened inside our world. So we don't shy away from that stuff. We take semi-ordinary characters, even though they have their own skill sets, we take those guys and we drop them into extraordinary situations and watch how the get out of them.

  Todd Farmer

  Fun, Crazy, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• When I was little - like in preschool - I was very shy, but whenever I went on stage I just exploded. Ever since then I knew that this was what I wanted to do. Music has always been a part of me, music is my passion.

  Manika

  Passion, Littles, Preschool

  Source: www.kidzworld.com

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• Photography came as a substitute. I was painfully shy and found talking to people difficult; a camera in hand gave me a function, a reason to be somewhere, a witness, but not an actor.

  Martine Franck

  Photography, Hands, Talking

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• It was a very easy way to have a group of friends on a very large campus - a sense of identity. It was a great place to learn how to navigate a variety of personalities, which you kind of have to do in life. You've got the shy woman and you've got the obnoxious woman and you've got the brainiac and you've got the social climber and you've got the introvert and the extrovert, and you're all living together. I think it gave me valuable experience in learning how to live with people that are different than you are. And that's an important lesson. You can bet it comes in very handy in the Senate.

  Claire McCaskill

  Thinking, People, Personality

  Source: www.elle.com

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• My ex-student, Idit Harel, who wrote a book, "Children Designs," has a documented story of a kid who was very shy, isolated and didn't talk much to other kids. She was a little overweight, and the other kids looked down on her for that reason.But then she made a discovery about how to do something on the computer. The discovery was picked up by other kids, and within a few weeks there was a total transformation. This kid was now in demand. And that changed her feeling about herself.

  Seymour Papert

  Children, Book, Kids

  "Sunday Interview - Seymour Papert/ Computers in the Lives of Our Children/ an Mit Mathematician and Philosopher Is Exploring How Technology Can Educate the Next Generation - and Their Parents". www.sfgate.com. February 2, 1997.

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• All flowers are flirtatious - particularly if they carry hyphenated names. The more hyphens in the name, the flirtier the flower. The one-hyphen flowers - black-eyed Susan; lady-smock; musk-rose - may give you only a shy glance and then drop their eyes; the two-hyphen flowers - forget-me-not; flower-de-luce - keep glancing. Flowers with three or more hyphens flirt all over the garden and continue even when they are cut and arranged in vases. John-go-to-bed-at-noon does not go there simply to sleep.

  Willard R. Espy

  Flower, Sleep, Eye

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• I can be shy when I talk to women. I'm a shy dude.

  Nick Carter

  I Can

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• I feel like politics have always informed what I do. If you know anything about my music, you know I've never been shy about stating how I vote.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Vote, Feels, Knows

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I always had difficulty as a model just being myself. I can be very shy, and I used to have a lot of anxiety about working on set.

  Stephanie Seymour

  Anxiety, Just Being, Being Myself

  Interview magazine, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2013.

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• I think I've always admired sort of dynamic filmmakers, which doesn't shy away from strong expressions. Which might be a little more theatrical at some points.

  Fredrik Bond

  Strong, Thinking, Expression

  Source: collider.com

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• I think it's common sense to shy away from the erotic. Perhaps this grand experiment, which started with Lady Chatterley's Lover, of seeing what you can write and how you can write about sex, has reached a certain weary terminus with Fifty Shades of Grey.

  Richard Flanagan

  Sex, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Michael Jordan on the court is a completely different guy. If the play requires him to leap out all the way and grab the ball, that's what he'll do. He may be a completely shy, withdrawn sort of person [off the court].

  Mos Def

  Play, Guy, Different

  "David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council (2003 Cover Story)". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. January 11, 2016.

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• My parents, though very loving, were not what one would ever describe as outgoing and therefore when I was young I was quite shy and socially awkward. Having a camera changed all that. It gave me an excuse to go anywhere and approach anybody.

  Derek Ridgers

  Parent, Awkward, Cameras

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I wish I could just accept that I'm not that good and not be shy about the fact that I'm not that professional.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Wish, Facts, Accepting

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

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• I'm camera shy. I don't necessarily like being front and center. I'd rather not have my face all up in everything. I'm not trying to be some mysterious producer or anything like that.

  Galcher Lustwerk

  Trying, Cameras, Faces

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• A lot of my friends they call me 'the therapist'. They come to me looking for advice. I must be doing something right because they keep coming back. But I'm not very good at kind of looking into my own world and trying to pick apart what is really wrong and fix those things. I like to kind of shy away from certain issues and turn away.

  Janet Jackson

  Issues, Advice, Trying

  "Tyler Perry, Jill Scott, and Janet Jackson Wonder Why Did I Get Married?". Press conference, movieweb.com. October 9, 2007.

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• But no matter what the outcome, how the friends turn out in the end, it should not stop you from making new friends. Once bitten, twice shy should not be applied to friendship.

  Rita Zahara

  Relationship, Outcomes, Matter

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• Swimming is great because there are levels of goals. First, when I was four, it was making it to the other end and overcoming the fear of standing up in front of everybody at a swim meet because I was such a shy kid.

  Summer Sanders

  Kids, Swimming, Goal

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• For some reason a nation feels as shy about admitting that it ever went forth to war for the sake of more wealth as a man would about admitting that he had accepted an invitation just for the sake of the food. This is one of humanity's most profound imbecilities, as perhaps the only justification for asking one's fellowmen to endure the horrors of war would be the knowledge that if they did not fight they would starve.

  Rebecca West

  War, Fighting, Men

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.143, Open Road Media

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• the little street
  Into its gloom retires, secluded and shy.

  Laurence Binyon

  Littles, Retiring, Streets

  Laurence Binyon (1927). “A Laurence Binyon Anthology”

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• When the excessively shy force themselves to be forward, they are frequently surprisingly unsubtle and overdirect and even rude: they have entered an extreme region beyond their normal personality, an area of social crime where gradations don't count; unavailable to them are the instincts and taboos that booming extroverts, who know the territory of self-advancement far better, can rely on.

  Nicholson Baker

  Self, Personality, Rude

  Nicholson Baker (2011). “U and I: A True Story”, p.153, Vintage

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• A shy face is better than a forward heart.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Heart, Faces

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• People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  People, Missing, Slugs

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.231, Penguin

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