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


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LARRY BIRD It's a very special day for me,
LARRY BIRD The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
LARRY BIRD We're still looking and seeing what we can do. We like our team, we're very deep, but we don't like ...
LARRY BIRD It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.
LARRY BIRD The breadfruit is a superb tree, about 60 feet high, with deep green, shining leaves, a foot broad, ...
ISABELLA BIRD The Rocky Mountains realize - nay, exceed - the dream of my childhood. It is magnificent, and the ai...
ISABELLA BIRD Well I'm still working on The Incredibles. So I'm going to take a little time off. I've ...
BRAD BIRD The Japanese look most diminutive in European dress. Each garment is a misfit and exaggerates the mi...
ISABELLA BIRD There are eight or nine leading varieties of rice grown in Japan, all of which, except an upland spe...
ISABELLA BIRD The Shat-el-Arab is a noble river or estuary. From both its Persian and Turkish shores, however, mou...
ISABELLA BIRD A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncr...
ISABELLA BIRD was a clown. But if it turns out that he was telling the truth, then who else is lying? It's a dark ...
ALAN BIRD I think when we do the budget, we make a number of assumptions, and that's one of them. We assume th...
GREG BIRD I think everyone thinks their dad is a little bit odd or crazy. As they get older, they develop thei...
SIMON BIRD I was standing in a crop formation north of Milton. I look up and I see this super-bright light up t...
MIKE BIRD My first yak was fairly quiet and looked a noble steed with my Mexican saddle and gay blanket among ...
ISABELLA BIRD If the government does continue with this level of response, I think it will build confidence in the...
BELLA BIRD I went to the States with that amount of prejudice which seems the birthright of every English perso...
ISABELLA BIRD The writing comes first for me. Not Facebook, not Twitter, not the Internet or signings or merchandi...
JESSICA BIRD Ten-year-old boys move differently than middle-aged women, who move differently than athletic guys, ...
BRAD BIRD My first experiences of Colorado travel have been rather severe. At Greeley, I got a small upstairs ...
ISABELLA BIRD I've been holding my breath the whole time waiting for the answer to come because I knew it would be...
AMANDA BIRD Yokohama does not improve on further acquaintance. It has a dead-alive look. It has irregularity wit...
ISABELLA BIRD The Tigris is so fierce and rapid, and swallows its alluvial banks so greedily, that it is probable ...
ISABELLA BIRD The Tibetans are dirty. They wash once a year and, except for festivals, seldom change their clothes...
ISABELLA BIRD There was a fascinating handmade poster scene in Chicago in the '90s, and I became friends with ...
ANDREW BIRD It is a positive move. It is always a much better idea to have a public broadcaster that is less dep...
WILLIAM BIRD