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Shy Quotes

I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.

"I do not know what is sexy about me, says Johnny Depp". Interview with Aakanksha Naval-Shetye, www.dnaindia.com. May 21, 2012.

Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture.

Scott Joplin, Maurice Hinson (1990). “Scott Joplin at the Piano”, p.5, Alfred Music Publishing

There's always something fishy about the French.

Noel Coward (197?). “A Noël Coward gala: his words and music, volume two”

I am quite shy and people think I'm aloof.

"Interview with Twilight's Kristen Stewart". Interview with Will Lawrence, www.telegraph.co.uk. September 13, 2010.

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

Anthony Trollope (2016). “Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...”, p.4483, e-artnow (Open Publishing)