I have a very toxic combination of being completely determined, inflexible, controlling and being totally shy, guilty at hurting anyone's feelings, hypersensitive to other people's needs - and it's just paralysing.
James Murphy
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I was very shy as a girl. Absurdly shy, even. Maybe because I was an only child. And I think that's why I'm so happy to have two kids now.
Monica Bellucci
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I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.
Garry Shandling
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Television forces people to be larger than life. I would be too shy.
Heston Blumenthal
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Everybody has their cliques, and I was very shy. I'm still very shy. Music opened up doors. I would get to my choir class, and I was sort of one of the better kids... I could read music. That's when I realized how good El Coro de San Juan was. I felt, for once, like, hey, I can fit in.
Luis Fonsi
GoodMusicBetterDoorsI CanShy
I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
Farrah Fawcett
PeoplePersonShyKnowingThings
I was always someone who wanted to write. I was a real shy, bookworm-ish kid, and I think my earliest stuff was fairly dark.
Gillian Flynn
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I sometimes shy away because I don't want to be too 'showy-offy' but the older I get I think, 'You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket.'
Jude Law
ThinkYouSometimesWantShyGet
I was very shy and withdrawn as a child, but people know me as these assertive women. They are not me.
Bea Arthur
WomenChildPeopleMeKnowShy
Sometimes I'm really funny, sometimes I'm quiet, sometimes I'm shy, but I'm constantly changing.
Elle King
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I've come from nowhere, and I'm not shy to go back.
Jason Statham
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I'd been shy since childhood, constantly full of self-doubt. And as an actor, I'd been so scared of failing that I made my career - and myself - a big joke.
Emily Mortimer
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I try to shy away from labels and focus on the issues.
Jon Ossoff
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In regard to performing, it couldn't be funnier that I ended up being an actor, because I'm really shy. Unless I'm really comfortable with a person.
Dylan O'Brien
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I could never imagine myself acting in front of a camera or doing anything in front of the camera. I was a very shy girl.
Disha Patani
GirlMyselfDoingCameraActingShy
To be honest, I was kind of a shy kid growing up.
Dave Franco
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I like to dance and sing when there's no one around, but, if I'm out, I'm really shy about it. So it takes a lot to get me going, but I enjoy being around music.
Derek Jeter
MusicDanceMeEnjoyShyOut
I think you've got to like people. There are MPs who are either painfully shy or who don't like public speaking or don't socialise very well, and you just think this must be the worst job in the world for them.
Charles Kennedy
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I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.
Dorothy Allison
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I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.
Bill Wyman
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I was very shy. It was kind of scary to meet new people.
Chloe Kim
PeopleNewKindMeetNew PeopleShy
I was painfully shy, and I had tremendous difficulty making friends. So, lacking friends, I watched other people. Watching is something all writers must do, and it was in junior high that I learned to do it.
Alex Flinn
PeopleFriendsShyWatchingHigh
I was a shy, quiet kid. I was happiest playing by myself with my toys, rather than hanging around people.
Christian Slater
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.
Tennessee Williams
SuccessPlanningYouShyWatching
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