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I've always thought of myself as shy.
Nicholson Baker
Myself
Thought
Always
Shy
I have a high degree of sensitivity, always have. I was very shy as a child. I don't know why that was.
Nick Nolte
Degree
High
Know
Always
Very
Child
Sensitivity
Why
Shy
I am quite a shy person. You say that to people, and they say, 'You do interviews, speeches. How can you be shy?' But, fundamentally, I am.
Nicola Sturgeon
You
People
Interviews
Say
How
Am
Person
Quite
They Say
Fundamentally
Shy
Shy Person
Speeches
As First Minister, I will always act in the best interests of the country. As party leader, I will always act in the best interests of the party, and if that sometimes means taking difficult, unpalatable decisions, I will never shy away from that.
Nicola Sturgeon
Best
Sometimes
Will
Leader
First
Country
Party
Difficult
Minister
Best Interests
Never
Taking
Always
Decisions
Interests
Means
Act
Away
Shy
I was a shy kid, but somehow I knew I would make it as a performer. I'd always be telling my mum that I was going to be a famous singer. In my school yearbooks I would write, 'Remember me when I'm famous.' I knew I had a gift.
Nicole Scherzinger
Me
Gift
Remember
School
Kid
Telling
Would
Somehow
Write
Had
Remember Me
Knew
Performer
Singer
Make
Always
Going
Famous
Mum
Shy
I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.
Nigel Rees
You
Class
Words
School
Say
Never
School Plays
Armour
Terribly
Sort
Said
Got
Getting
Anything
Then
Started
Shy
Plays
I was quite a shy kid, but I was quite funny at school, and I was really into art. In our class, there were two of us who were good at drawing, and my teacher was like, 'He's going to make a wonderful artist one day, and Noel can make everyone laugh.'
Noel Fielding
Funny
Teacher
Art
Good
Day
Class
Wonderful
School
Everyone
Our
Kid
One Day
Drawing
Laugh
He
Like
Make
Were
Artist
Going
Quite
Us
Really
Who
Shy
Two
At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.
Octavia E. Butler
Class
Sports
School
Hopeless
Rest
Other
Other Kids
Kids
Only
Only Child
Spite
Adult
Comfortable
Because
Taller
Always
Got
Than
Quiet
Child
Grades
Short
Different
Size
Even
Awkward
Earliest
Shy
I was very shy, but when I performed, I felt like I was in my own little world. I became more confident. Dancing taught me discipline and to feel comfortable in my own skin.
Olga Fonda
Me
World
Discipline
Own
Skin
Dancing
My Own
More
Feel
Performed
Like
Became
Comfortable
Felt
Very
Confident
Taught
Little
Shy
I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.
Oriana Fallaci
You
Man
Met
Clark
Clark Gable
More
Never
He
Talk
Make
Him
Than
Shy
I left school just shy of 17: I'd started going into touring and that situation.
Paolo Nutini
School
Situation
Touring
Left
Going
Just
Started
Shy
I always knew I had a voice and I've always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it's the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it's what I'm most talented at and what I love to do the most.
Paris Hilton
Love
People
Think
Too
Finally
Out
Voice
Could
Had
Knew
Talented
Come
Most
Sing
Known
Always
Go
Did
Front
The Hardest Thing
Realized
Let Go
Hardest
Hardest Thing
Thing
Shy
I always had an inferiority complex, like I wasn't good enough. I was shy. But dancing gave me so much joy, and I was good at it. I felt like a whole person because I could dance.
Patricia McBride
Good
Me
Joy
Inferiority
Dance
Enough
Gave
Dancing
Complex
Could
Had
Like
Because
Felt
Always
Person
Inferiority Complex
Much
Whole
Shy
I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone.
Patti LaBelle
Kid
Pretended
Broom
Handle
Microphone
Shy
I'm very shy in a crowd.
Patti LaBelle
Crowd
Very
Shy
I'm very quiet and shy in my personal life, as hard as that is to believe.
Patti Stanger
Life
Personal Life
Believe
Very
Quiet
Personal
Hard
Shy
I don't go to the mall a lot 'cause girls scream and run at me, and I get shy.
Paul Butcher
Me
Cause
Girl
Run
Go
Lot
Mall
Get
Scream
Shy
I'm quite shy, really. The figure you see on TV, that's just a persona. I like getting home, putting my feet up, getting into my slippers and dressing gown.
Paul Hollywood
Home
You
Slippers
TV
See
Dressing
Putting
Feet
Like
Up
Gown
Persona
Getting
Quite
Just
Really
Figure
Shy
The real Paul Hollywood is shy.
Paul Hollywood
Real
Paul
Hollywood
Shy
Sometimes I'm overly blunt. I don't like to mince words. I like to get things done. That's the only difference between Chris Christie and I - he's a little shy.
Paul LePage
Words
Sometimes
Mince
Only
Only Difference
He
Between
Like
Overly
Get
Done
Difference
Blunt
Little
Chris
Things
Shy
It seems like a contradiction, but the shy person who is a performer actually does make sense, because in a way, when you're young and shy, making people laugh is a good way to make friends. It's an instant connection.
Paul Merton
Good
You
People
Young
Sense
Way
Laugh
Seems
Good Way
Instant
Performer
Like
Make
Because
Does
Making
Friends
Contradiction
Person
Who
Connection
Actually
Shy
Shy Person
When I told my mum I was going to play my first gig when I was 14, she couldn't believe it, cause I was painfully shy at that time. But I just done it, put my head down and got through it. And I suppose there's still a little bit of that, even though it's many years later and I've been doing it for a long time.
Paul Weller
Time
Cause
Long
Long Time
First
Down
Believe
Later
Bit
Though
Gig
Through
Put
Head
Suppose
She
Got
Still
Doing
Been
Years
Done
Going
Just
Little
Little Bit
Painfully
Many
Even
Mum
Play
Shy
There is a shy side to me that evaporates when I play on stage, and I like that. I think it's another facet of my character, and I need to do that.
Paul Weller
Character
Me
Stage
Think
Side
Facet
Like
Another
Evaporates
Play
Shy
Need
I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul.
Paulo Coelho
Work
Love
Soul
Too
Everything
Eye
Eye Contact
About
Having
My Soul
Except
Contact
Almost
Almost Everything
Reader
Knows
Audience
Am
Conferences
Front
Who
Shy
In high school, my first thing ever was I played Tony in 'West Side Story' when I was about 17. I was a really shy kid, and I just, like, forced myself to learn how to sing this one month because I loved 'West Side Story' so much, and I somehow managed to get the role.
Paulo Costanzo
Myself
School
First
Side
Month
Kid
High
High School
About
Somehow
Like
Sing
Forced
Learn
First Thing
Because
How
West
West Side
West Side Story
Role
Get
Just
Loved
Story
Much
Really
Ever
Thing
Played
Shy
Tony
Acting attracts shy people and show-offs.
Penelope Wilton
People
Attracts
Acting
Shy
Shy People
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