Talulah Riley Quotes

I'm terribly, horribly shy.

Talulah Riley

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• It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Fun
  • Thing
  • Say

• We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Places
  • Shy
  • Sunny

• I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • People
  • English
  • Intelligence

• I'm not shy. I'm modest, but I'm very outgoing.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Very
  • Shy
  • Modest

• I'm shy. I can go on a trip for days and not go because I won't sit on a toilet seat on a plane. I'm certainly not going to go on somebody's lawn. Could you imagine, in a cocktail dress?

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Dress
  • Shy
  • Cocktail

• I don't why I was bullied. I was quite shy and skinny. Very nerdy, very bookwormish. I think I was just a target.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Why
  • Think
  • Shy

• I've never been a shy person. I've always been able to talk pretty well.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Pretty
  • Talk
  • Been

• I'm shy, but I'm not clinically shy. I don't have social anxiety disorder or anything like that. I more have a gentle shyness. Like, I have a little trouble mingling at parties.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Trouble
  • Anxiety
  • Shy

• As a little girl, I was always shy, but in front of the camera I wasn't.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • Girl
  • Camera
  • Shy

• I'm kind of shy, to be honest. If I go to the pool or something, I keep my shirt on unless I'm getting in the water.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Kind
  • Water
  • Pool

• I never was shy, but as far as telling jokes, I'm the worst. I like physical comedy; it's where I feel comfortable.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Comedy
  • Never
  • Feel

• When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually a process of growing down; whether experience, so much touted among adults as the thing children lack, is not actually a progressive dilution of the essentials by the trivialities of living.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Children

• I've thought about it a hundred times. I even buy bridal magazines sometimes. I want David Tutera to do my wedding.

  

  Marlen Esparza
  • Wedding

• We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly.

  

  Brit Marling
  • Truth

• People are hurting, and they feel very disengaged and disenfranchised.

  

  Ann Callis
  • People

• My brothers played football. In fact, I was an absolutely enormous Packer fan, and because I was raised in such a football-centric community, I have always had a terrific admiration for football players.

  

  Ann McKee
  • Community
  • Football

• I think the artistic process comes from disorder. When you are happy, it's not always a feeling that you can identify. It's like a dog sitting in front of a fire. Pain isolates you, but it can also clarify things.

  

  Amanda Harlech
  • Happy
  • Feeling
  • Pain

• One gets a bad habit of being unhappy.

  

  George Eliot
  • Bad
  • Habit

• Eleanor Roosevelt was painfully shy, painfully shy. So she overcompensated. In the same way that Nancy Reagan felt unattractive and unlovable and so everything had to be - hair had to be perfect, and the makeup and the clothes. Because she thought, "They don't think I'm pretty."

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Pretty

• Into the dark night Resignedly I go, I am not so afraid of the dark night As the friends I do not know, I do not fear the night above As I fear the friends below.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • Night
  • Knows
  • Shy

• We were in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. It's a nice town, but it's aggressively quaint. They've got a popcorn shop above a waterfall and parades that come through town. It's all-American.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • American
  • Nice
  • Fall

• The old notion that the savage is the freest of mankind is the reverse of the truth. He is a slave, not indeed to a visible master, but to the past, to the spirits of his dead forefathers, who haunt his steps from birth to death, and rule him with a rod of iron.

  

  James G. Frazer
  • Truth
  • Rule
  • Slave

• Some friends putting out goodness!

  

  Pat Barrett
  • Friends
  • Goodness
  • Putting

• I'm terribly, horribly shy.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Shy
  • Terribly
  • Horribly