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«I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.»
Author: Garry Shandling (Actor, Comedian) | Keywords: phone, shy, Too Shy
«It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presence may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.»
«[When we filmed Animal House, I] found John [Belushi] astonishingly shy and vulnerable. Rather than being a confident established star, he seemed nervous about meeting everyone, about fitting in.»
«It's not that easy to find someone I can relate too. I'm tough to crack because I'm shy.»
Author: Kristin Kreuk (Actress) | Keywords: crack, relate, shy, Too Shy
«I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.»
«Fight shy of the medicine which thy mother and thy father, thy sister and thy brother let out against thee, I shall cause thee to live unto old age!»
Author: Atharva Veda | Keywords: let out, shy
«I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.»
«A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success»
«He was as shy as a newspaper is when referring to its own merits»
«An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when introduced first among our old ones. We should have patience and see whether the incoherency is likely to wear off or to wear on, in which latter case the»

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