Shy Quotes - Page 31

• My daddy tried to get me up to speak for the 17 years that I worked behind the scenes, but I never had the desire. Naturally, I was nervous and kind of shy. I just didn't want to do it.

  Joel Osteen

  Years, Daddy, Desire

  Source: www.cbn.com

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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 will never shy away from embarrassing myself for a good cause

  David Cook

  Causes, Embarrassing, Good Causes

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• I'm quite shy, so if there's a guy I like, I actually ignore him because I can't speak to him. I get all red and sweaty, and it's embarrassing.

  Silvia Colloca

  Guy, Red, Speak

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• Im a shy person. I contradict my own profession, because Im an introvert in a very glamorous world.

  Deepika Padukone

  World, Introvert, Glamorous

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• I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time.

  Winona Ryder

  Teenager, School, Long

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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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• 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 He may be a completely shy, withdrawn sort of person [off the court].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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• For some people, it's very easy to be spontaneous and they can pour out the most wonderful stuff. But it's really hard to exert control over it, to think, 'Well, this could be different. This could go in the opposite order, there could be more here and less there.' For other people, it's much easier to have rules and a methodology, but much harder to let loose and allow their feelings to come pouring out on the page. They're more shy or they're just more distant from their emotions. I think everybody starts with one or the other.

  Alice Mattison

  Thinking, Order, Opposites

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In a lot of ways I look at these old photos, and I don't know if I would have been able to communicate with these people on this level if I didn't have a camera. I think I would still be so shy.

  Ryan McGinley

  Thinking, People, Cameras

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Journeys up the Metaphoric River are hugely enjoyable and highly recommended. Since every genre is nourished by its heady waters, a paddle steamer can take even the most walk-shy tourists to their chosen destination. As a bonus, there is traditionally at least one murder on board each trip--a "consideration" to the head steward will ensure that it is not you.

  Jasper Fforde

  Journey, Genre Is, Rivers

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• I'm not shy about asking the customer, because I want to talk about who she is and what she wants from me.

  Victoria Beckham

  Asking, Want, Customers

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Not that I was incapable of friendship. 'Don't be shy', the teachers coaxed. I was not shy, only extremely choosy. And Denise shone like a diamond. If you had to ask me to define paradise, I would have said a desert island which Denise could visit, on a boat.

  Anneli Rufus

  Teacher, Islands, Desert

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• A new person in your life gives the rest of you a chance to be new, too. Your life can be whatever you want it to, from there on out. I leaned in and kissed and that is who I was to him, not shy, but bold. Not inhibited, but brave. I was that to him and so I kept being that. It was what I thought he wanted and what he was attracted to, and yet it was this, this exact thing I wasn't even really, that made him the most insecure.

  Deb Caletti

  Insecure, Giving, Brave

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• Shy” was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. “Snotty” was the interpretation she got from people her own age.

  Ann Brashares

  People, Age, Interpretation

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.134, Delacorte Press

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• The pants come down. Most look shamefaced, but tha Arthur McBride is not the least bit shy about showing off his equipment, oh no, he isn't. He grins in my direction. 'Not all that impressive, boyo

  L.A. Meyer

  Looks, Pants, Arthur

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• A few minutes?" Feeling suddenly shy, she crossed her arms over her chest. The smile on his face widened, becoming touched with the feral wildness of the cat. It made thinking difficult. "I believed males needed a longer recovery time to mate." "Not this kitty cat." Rising to his feet, he said, "Get ready to play.

  Nalini Singh

  Recovery, Cat, Thinking

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series”, p.1830, Penguin

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• THE soul should always stand ajar, That if the heaven inquire, He will not be obliged to wait, Or shy of troubling her. Depart, before the host has slid The bolt upon the door, To seek for the accomplished guest, -- Her visitor no more.

  Emily Dickinson

  Doors, Waiting, Heaven

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.300, First Avenue Editions

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• I was too tired to think. I merely felt the town as a unique unreality. What was it? I knew -- the moon's picture of a town. These streets with their houses did not exist, they were but a ludicrous projection of the moon's sumptuous personality. This was a city of Pretend, created by the hypnotism of moonnight. -- Yet when I examined the moon she too seemed but a painting of a moon and the sky in which she lived a fragile echo of color. If I blew hard the whole shy mechanism would collapse gently with a neat soundless crash. I must not, or lose all.

  e. e. cummings

  Tired, Unique, Moon

  E.E. Cummings (2015). “The Enormous Room”, p.46, Xist Publishing

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• I am rather discreet and shy!

  Richard Clayderman

  Discreet

  Source: performancereviewed.com

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• You say the character [of Leo Bloom] was meek and insecure, and you could've been describing me as well. I was a very shy person in those days, and working with Zero [Mostel], who was bigger than life, helped me grow. Zero was a strong influence on me.

  Gene Wilder

  Strong, Zero, Character

  Source: keranews.org

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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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• One of the best places for a shy person to meet people is in a coffee shop. If you are a reader, bring a book and read it there - that gives a guy something to ask you about. Same goes for sketching, writing, or any hobby you can take with you.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Coffee, Book, Writing

  "Dating Advice". The Washington Post Live Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. February 9, 2005.

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• Maybe I'm wrong because I've not met the person yet, I really don't think I'd want to be with someone in the industry. I really don't think so. Once bitten, twice shy.

  Peter Andre

  Thinking, Want, Mets

  "Peter Andre: I don't regret my split with Katie Price being on reality TV" by Vicky Frost, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2009.

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• A shy face is better than a forward heart.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Heart, Faces

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