Shy Quotes - Page 33

• 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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• 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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• Onstage it was always comfortable for me because that's where I felt at home. Offstage it was a different situation. I was still shy offstage and unfortunately, my shyness and my inability to communicate and really have great conversations or be part of the gang - in inverted commas - led me to the drug addiction, which, you know, blighted my life for 16 years because I thought by doing that it would make me join in.

  Elton John

  Home, Years, Addiction

  "A More Reflective Leap On Elton John's 'Diving Board'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 23, 2013.

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

  Nick Carter

  I Can

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• We should never shy away from the challenges that face us out of fear of failure or an unwillingness to battle the odds. We should confront our problems head on and make no excuses.

  Kyle Maynard

  Odds, Challenges, Battle

  Kyle Maynard (2012). “No Excuses: The True Story of a Congenital Amputee Who Became a Champion in Wrestling And in Life”, p.208, Regnery Publishing

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• I've had moments of thinking maybe I should go on Twitter. It's something that I've been shy about, and I've thought that maybe I should do it.

  Michelle Dockery

  Thinking, Goes On, Moments

  "Michelle Dockery Talks DOWNTON ABBEY Season 4, Her Reaction to Season 3’s Cast Departures, Lady Mary as a Mother, Love Interests, and More". Press Tour Interview, collider.com. August 09, 2013.

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• If you're wearing something I like, I will come over and ask where you got it from. I'm not shy!

  Joanne Froggatt

  Asks, Ifs

  "Five fashion minutes with... Joanne Froggatt". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. April 19, 2009.

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• I did several shows with Jimi Hendrix, that's when I got to know him better, I knew of him, I met him [when he was playing] with Little Richard... And he was kind of quiet, shy, he didn't open up too much, but there were questions as we all ask each other. You know, "how do you do this" and "why do you do that..." We had very small discussions on things like that. And he was very polite, I thought [he was] a very nice guy.

  B. B. King

  Music, Nice, Guy

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• I like the really human sides of people. To meet them and see that they’re complicated and weird or shy or any of those things sort of makes it even better—to know that they can rise above that and make something great.

  Elizabeth Peyton

  People, Sides, Complicated

  "Elizabeth Peyton" by Jarvis Cocker, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 26, 2008.

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• Cowards can't be faulted for being shy. They can't be held responsible for anything.

  Koushun Takami

  Coward, Responsible, Being Shy

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• As women and as lawyers, we must never again shy from raising our voices against sexual harassment.

  Hillary Clinton

  Voice, Lawyer, Harassment

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• I’m a black woman who is from Central Falls, Rhode Island. I’m dark skinned. I’m quirky. I’m shy. I’m strong. I’m guarded. I’m weak at times. I’m sensual. I’m not overtly sexual. I am so many things in so many ways and I will never see myself on screen. And the reason I will never see myself up on screen is because that does not translate with being black.

  Viola Davis

  Strong, Fall, Dark

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• I can feel very brave through all the action scenes in front of the people who are on the set, but when a girl comes close to me my face turns red because I'm so shy.

  Jet Li

  Girl, People, Brave

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

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• People have a hard time believing that, but not having a father around, being shy, I just never participated in sports much.

  Chuck Norris

  Sports, Father, Believe

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• I was very shy. I'm still shy.

  Patti LaBelle

  Stills

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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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• If you're not careful people will judge you based on these appearances and they will pigeon hole you that this is the person that you are. Your shy, your aggressive, your this type or that type and you lose the control of the dynamic, they become the ones that determine who you are. A powerful person never loses control of the dynamic they are in someway in control.

  Robert Greene

  Powerful, People, Judging

  Source: www.josephbushnell.com

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• Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do. I have always been full of contradictions. I am shy but I love the freedom of the stage. I need reassurance but at the same time I don’t want it. I hate being afraid but I can’t help wanting to frighten myself. That is how you grow.

  Sylvie Guillem

  Hate, Needs, Want

  "Fear is the drug" by Judith Mackrell, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2006.

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• I was a shy kid, a late bloomer. At 22, I was probably 16 emotionally.

  Chris Pine

  Kids, Late

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• I'm a very protective person and I'm very, I don't want to say shy, but I tend to fall for people once I've been around them for a minute because I trust them and I'm willing to let them into my world a little more, so I can definitely say I've fallen for a friend.

  Chelsea Kane

  Fall, People, Want

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.

  Ben Whishaw

  Children, Backgrounds

  "Ben Whishaw on his new role as Richard II". Interview with John Preston, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 30, 2012.

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