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Quotes About Inhibition

I've always been battling against my sense of dignity and refinement. I was embarrassed by any bodily functions when I was younger. I could never even blow my nose.
~ Helen Mirren
What is it that you're not doing - in your work, in your life - because you feel you need permission? If someone had given you that permission as a youngster, what do you think you'd be doing now?
~ Justine Musk
You have to contort your body in a certain way to hit a low note. When you're on film, you can't. So you do, in a sense, get to hide behind your voice, which is nice.
~ Will Friedle
What I was told by my parents was that, you know, take this inhibition out whether you're a girl or a boy. Basically, pursue your dream, and as long as you're a capable and hardworking human being, you will be able to follow and fulfill your dream.
~ Chanda Kochhar
Sometimes we all gain this elitist status mentally that inhibits us from being the kid that got you there in the first place, and I never want to inhibit that youthful demeanor. I think it's a very big part of success.
~ Joe Maddon
I definitely have to censor myself a lot of the time because I'm used to just being a loose cannon, and I'm used to doing and saying whatever I want because I work on YouTube.
~ Gigi Gorgeous
I think online, like on YouTube and stuff, people could pretty much say whatever they want. They have no filter in their brain, because no one knows who they are. They're totally anonymous, so they could say whatever they want. But when they're in person with me, they wouldn't say those things, because I can actually see who they are.
~ Lucas Cruikshank
I have trouble voicing my thoughts... I can't communicate very well that way.
~ Ayumi Hamasaki
I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.
~ Aaron Copland
She wanted to cry, but she did not want Peter to see her cry, and she especially did not want Teacher, with her flowing hair, to see her cry.
~ Dave Barry
Alcohol has never caused anyone to do something they didn't want to do. It only enables them to do what they've always wanted but have instead repressed.
~ Neil Strauss
You can tell me to stop any time you want, but you won't.
~ Cassandra Clare
No one tells me what they think because they're either intimidated by me, or they don't want to upset me.
~ Curtis Sliwa
worry of being heard.
~ Steven James
But she wished she had had the guts to go up to him and say hello. Or possibly break his legs, she wasn't sure which.
~ Stieg Larsson
I am castrated by my own deliquencies," Shem said. "Not even with you can I overcome them. The thought of a kiss turns my stomach, yet you are a lovely creature.
~ Storm Constantine
Seeing Q'orveh had somehow choked the urge for intimacy, with anyone, from my body.
~ Storm Constantine
I don't perform well in private. Socially, I mean. And I didn't as a child. Actors aren't necessarily outgoing, are they?
~ Lindsay Duncan
I didn't know how I could want things so badly while making it impossible to ever get them.
~ Mary Miller
I want you. But I'm scared to say it out loud. And it sucks because I've always been someone who always says things out loud.
~ Nessie Q., Snippets of Imagery
The truth is, I don't have a catchy method of conversing and yet, unfortunately, suffer on a minute-to-minute basis the agony of the unexpressed thought.
~ Miriam Toews
She may resent Playboy because she resents feeling ugly in sex--or, if beautiful, her body defined and diminished by pornography. It inhibits in her something she needs to live, and gives her the ultimate anaphrodisiac: the self-critical sexual gaze. Alice Walker's essay Coming Apart investigates the damage done: Comparing herself to her lover's pornography, her heroine foolishly decides that she is not beautiful.
~ Naomi Wolf
Milyen érdekes, hogy az ember oly könnyen kiönti a szívét egy darab papírnak, miközben szemtÅ'l szemben megszólalni sem mer.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Sentí que se me encogía la garganta y, a falta de palabras, me mordí la voz.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon