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I'm painfully shy.
I'm painfully middle class.
I was painfully shy as a child.
I am very, very painfully human.
Yes, the mainstream media is painfully biased.
My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
I was a painfully shy person in my pre-acting days.
I'm so weird and quirky, and painfully awkward sometimes.
If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.
I was, at times, painfully shy as a kid and all the way through college.
Everything was coming my way, but I was going down. I was painfully empty.
The answer to New Orleans's levee woes is painfully obvious: money and willpower.
I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.
You might as well enjoy the day - you never know when and how painfully it could all end.
I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.
The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned.
As is now painfully obvious from my Twitter ban, boycotts tend to make the shunned more popular.
At the age of 55, you will get a saggy roll just above your waist, even if you are painfully thin.
It's painfully obvious to see that as Americans we can sometimes be wrapped up in our own affairs.
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
If I kind of like a guy, then I'm a fantastic flirt. But with a guy I truly like, I get painfully shy.
Joni Mitchell's someone who has tried to make sense of her own world, sometimes painfully, through song.
I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.
I would never complain about 'One Day' taking off, but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.
As a child, I studied violin. My sister, who's 10 years older, was the actress in the family. I was painfully shy.
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.
I was painfully self-obsessed and self-aware. I wanted people to love me but at the same time I was terrified of them.
K. Thiagarajan is a painfully shy young man. But he is the human personification of the idiom 'Still waters run deep.'
Mothers suffer in the workplace. That fact is by now so painfully familiar it even has a name: the motherhood penalty.
In my 20s and early 30s, I was very much a man lost at sea, with very little direction in life, and painfully immature.
I still represent for overweight adults and kids, but I am also now painfully and personally aware of the health issues.
I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.
We're all painfully aware of how suddenly violence can occur, how crippling it is, and how survivors have to find a way back from that.
I think the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny and I find a lot of the broad comedy which is sent to me, painfully unfunny.
The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.
I was just painfully shy. I couldn't talk to anyone. Going up in front of class, I would have to mentally prepare myself to raise my hand.
But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.
I know my strengths. Painfully aware of the weaknesses. There's many. I love sports. So working towards a common goal, that's exciting to me.
Sensitivity isn't being wimpy. It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom. I enjoy a lot of mystery.
Stage-persona notwithstanding, I'm extremely shy and quiet. Almost painfully shy. People misinterpret that as being above it all or not interested.
I have a to-do list and I have a farm I care for, and things I like to do for fun - going to movies and all that stuff. It's a painfully normal life!
Children exist in the worlds that adults create for them, both locally and globally, and their options are, by virtue of age, often painfully limited.
Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
In school I was painfully shy. But as soon as I had to get up in front of the class and give a book report, it was alarming - I'd suddenly be very articulate.
If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious.
As a painfully shy kid, my fun time was locking myself away and watching movie after movie after movie. Watching a good performance, to me, was like getting a new toy.
We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.
My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.
Something that I've cared about deeply my whole career is getting to work with filmmakers and inventors of stories that are hysterical because they are just so painfully true.