Shy Quotes - Page 5

• In movies, you get to explore parts of yourself that in real life, people shy away from, like looking stupid or embarrassing yourself or getting too angry, anything inappropriate. As an actor, you walk into those moments.

  Jess Weixler

  Real, Stupid, People

  "Jess Weixler Is Comedy's Next Big Thing". Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.elle.com. March 28, 2013.

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• Compassion speaks with a slight accent. She was a vulnerable child, miserable in school, cold, shy ... In ninth grade she was befriended by Courage. Courage lent Compassion bright sweaters, explained the slang, showed her how to play volleyball.

  J. Ruth Gendler

  Volleyball, Children, School

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• Little Jesus, was Thou shy Once, and just so small as I? And what did it feel like to be Out of Heaven, and just like me?

  Francis Thompson

  Jesus, Heaven, Littles

  Francis Thompson (1913). “Complete Poetical Works”

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• In general, the auditions I go up for are very sparse, I guess because of my ethnicity. And the characters are very similar: shy, innocent and naive; the connotations that come from the way that I look.

  Katie Leung

  Character, Ethnicity, Looks

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• I had not thought of violets of late,
  The wild, shy kind that springs beneath you feet
  In wistful April days.

  Alice Dunbar Nelson

  Spring, Feet, Violet

  Alice Dunbar-Nelson, “Sonnet”

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• Cats are possessed of a shy, retiring nature, cajoling, haughty, and capricious, difficult to fathom. They reveal themselves only to certain favored individuals, and are repelled by the faintest suggestion of insult or even by the most trifling deception.

  Pierre Loti

  Appreciation, Cat, Deception

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• From a timid shy girl I had become a woman of resolute character, who could no longer be frightened by the struggle with troubles.

  Anna Dostoyevskaya

  Girl, Struggle, Character

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• I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band.

  Yul Vazquez

  Children, Kids, Dark

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• I'm not a very shy person. I'm just somebody who's got a lot of work and who doesn't like to parade himself in new celebrity contexts.

  Alan Moore

  Parades, Persons, Shy Person

  Interview with Peter Bebergal, believermag.com. June 1, 2013.

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• I'm actually a very shy person, which is why I always chose to be in the kitchen. You can make people happy and entertain them, without really being there. You can make a very short appearance and then say, 'I've got something on the stove, gotta go!

  Giada De Laurentiis

  People, Kitchen, Being There

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• I am a very private person. I still get shy at times.

  Amy Weber

  Persons, Stills

  "Interview: Amy Weber interview". www.askmen.com.

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• I think I'm a shy, self-conscious person who thinks he's being looked at and tries to look okay. Not in a hottie, narcissistic way necessarily.

  Mark Leyner

  Thinking, Self, Trying

  "Whit Stillman and Mark Leyner on Their First Projects in 15 Years". Interview with Matthew Perpetua, www.rollingstone.com. April 6, 2012.

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• At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Safe Haven, Emotional, Self

  "'92 Olympian Yamaguchi balances road, family". Interview with Suzanne Riss, www.cnn.com. February 23, 2010.

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• Don't shy away from producing your own film and being in charge of its business end as well.

  Afia Nathaniel

  Film, Ends, Wells

  "TIFF Women Directors: Meet Afia Nathaniel – ‘Dukhtar’". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. September 4, 2014.

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• I was so shy and so quiet, and the only time I had my own voice and I could really connect with people was when I was singing or on stage.

  Emeli Sande

  Voice, People, Singing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm neither shy nor impressed by media and press. It's just another industry to me. My response to the criticism was, "I work with a steel factory. Why can't I work with the media?"

  Aleksandra Mir

  Media, Criticism, Steel

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• As a shy, introverted, scholarly child (long ago) I don't know what I would have done without libraries! My family moved often. I was always the new kid in town. The library always offered me my first and most important friendship: the place where I felt right at home. I still feel that way today, about libraries.

  Lois Lowry

  Children, Kids, Home

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• I was very, very shy when I was little. Acting lets you access all those different parts of yourself to make the character authentic.

  Rose Byrne

  Character, Acting, Different

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

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• At Harvard, the strong and savvy and confident thrived, while the nice or shy or quaintly moral were just bit players. In Ysleta, you believed in God because you were poor and needed something to hold on to. At Harvard, you believed in your good luck or bad luck, in all-nighters, in your political savvy.

  Sergio Troncoso

  Strong, Nice, Good Luck

  Sergio Troncoso (2011). “From This Wicked Patch of Dust”, p.97, University of Arizona Press

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• Religion should be subject to commonsense appraisal and rational review, as openly discussible as, say, politics, art and the weather. The First Amendment, we should recall, forbids Congress both from establishing laws designating a state religion and from abridging freedom of speech. There is no reason why we should shy away from speaking freely about religion, no reason why it should be thought impolite to debate it, especially when, as so often happens, religious folk bring it up on their own and try to impose it on others.

  Jeffrey Tayler

  Religious, Art, Law

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• It's very tough for a woman in the music business, and he really was such a motivator from the beginning, when I was super-shy, and he saw a lot in me on a personal level that he knew could carry through on the stage.

  Gloria Estefan

  Levels, Saws, Tough

  "Singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. October 1, 2013.

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• Music saved my life. I mean, music is life. It is everything to me. It's why I can meet people - I was so shy as a kid, and when I started to write songs and perform them with my sister in front of the public, people started to talk to me, and that made me feel really good. Everything about it has always been positive.

  June Millington

  Song, Writing, Mean

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm so in love with my boyfriend right now. Everything is perfect, but we want totally different things in bed. Like, he's always turning the lights on, you know what I'm saying? And I shut them off, and he turns them on, and the other day, he's like, 'Amy, why are you so shy? You know, you have a beautiful body.' I was like, 'Oh my god, you're so cute. You think I don't want you to see me?'

  Amy Schumer

  Cute, Beautiful, Thinking

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• I'm not good at talking to strangers, whether they're sick children or they're - I'm just not good. I'm shy with it.

  Sean Penn

  Children, Talking, Sick

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Hitler is a shy and friendly man with artistic tastes and gifts.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Friendly, Taste

  Carl Gustav Jung, Sir Herbert Edward Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1977). “The Collected Works: The symbolic life. Miscellaneous writings”

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