"I'm very shy. That's probably one of the reasons I got so heavily into drugs."
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"I'm not afraid of anyone. I'm not shy about anything. Not even my big nose."
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"The more that we choose not to talk about domestic violence, the more we shy away from the issue, the more we lose."
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"A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success."
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"I was a fairly shy person - not the hand raising type."
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"There is so much love in us all, but often we are too shy to express our love, and keep it bottled up inside us. We must learn to love, to love until it hurts, and we will know how to accept love."
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"For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended."
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"I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be proud of who you are. Now that I'm trying to peel off those layers and really understand who I am, I don't have anything to be shy about."
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"It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living."
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"I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness."
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"I've always felt a bit weird, very shy."
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"Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!"
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"I've always been quite shy. Very confident but very shy."
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"I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no one really gave a damn if I was shy or not, and I got over my shyness."
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"Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy."
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"I started when I was in college because I was shy and thought it would be a good way to break out of that."
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"No longer what your belief about yourself is - if you've always been poor, if you've always been overweight, if you've always had rotten relationships, if your luck hasn't been good, if you don't attract into your life the things you want, if you've always been shy or always been aggressive - whatever it is and however long you've held it, the belief that you can't change it is not aligned with Source. Source says you can be anything. You can do anything. You're infinite."
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"Not like Tobias, who is almost shy when he smiles, like he is surprised you bothered to look at him in the first place."
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"I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record."
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"As a kid, I never thought I'd be an actress. Never, ever, ever, no way. I was really shy - bordering on social disorder shy - and I was really academic."
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