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In the tradition of psychology, what the word shyness basically refers to is if someone is worried about how he or she appears to other people.

Wanda Bethea
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The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it's boldness.

Victor Hugo
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Not unexpectedly, pre-trial rhetoric has amounted to bullying and posturing in the media's eye, ... prominent reputation includes no apparent lack of shyness as far as communicating with the media and outside observers is concerned.

Chris Shibutani
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I am, by nature, a fairly shy person, and one of the things I had to learn was, when you're on a popular show and people feel they know you, what used to pass for shyness can be perceived as rude. I do feel more vulnerable, but people are always nice. Nobody ever comes up and throws food on me and says the show is crap.

David Hyde Pierce
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My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

Al Pacino
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If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it.

Joyce Carol Oates
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Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

Joseph Priestley
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You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.

Susan Lucci
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Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes.

Jonathan Katz
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I suppose the part nearest me is Laura Reynolds in Tea and Sympathy. Of course playright Bob Anderson didn't know that, but he wrote Laura Reynolds and Laura Reynolds happened to be me. It was the coming together of a part and an actress - the same attitude to life, a certain shyness in life, a deep compassion for people who are being persecuted for anything.

Deborah Kerr
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The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

Lady Bird Johnson
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A customer who often comes to my restaurant and always enchants me for his simplicity, shyness and self-irony is film director Woody Allen.

Arrigo Cipriani
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In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.

Gwen John
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