- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shy Quotes
On quiet nerves and the traits behind them.
Some quotes here contradict the stereotype, like someone insisting they've never been shy and have always talked easily, while others explore the gap between a quiet, socially awkward offstage personality and a bold on-screen role. One poetic line even pictures small shy embarrassments playing out on sunny afternoons.
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- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've done interviews in the past where, apparently, I didn't give the journalist any eye contact. I'm a bit shy, yes. I've thought about refusing to do any press at all.
- Guess
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I am actually quite shy, and I've always felt very self-conscious during interviews.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.
- Phone
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- Nov 07, 2020
We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories.
- Killer
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Halloween, I viewed the characters as simply normal teenagers. Laurie, Jamie Lee's character, was shy and somewhat repressed. And Michael Myers, the killer, is definitely repressed. They have certain similarities.
- Push
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- Nov 07, 2020
We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
At one point in college I was so shy that I'd drop out of a class if asked to speak in front of other people.
- Nov 07, 2020