Maria Taylor Quotes

My shyness probably defined the first 30 years of my life, really. It's a crippling thing. It can be very lonely knowing that you've got things to say, but you daren't say them.

I was an outsider. I looked different, and I felt really voiceless as a kid.

The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.

Silence and invisibility go hand in hand with powerlessness.

I only had the right to sit in the shadows of the world,in complete silence. Whether I was laughed at, or told I was discusting, or thought of as unpleasant I would sit in the shadows.

There is a timbre of voice that comes from not being heard and knowing / you are not being heard / noticed only by others / not heard for the same reason.

I can understand wanting to be invisible and mistrusting people and wanting to understand everything before you engage with the world.

I'm shy. I'm not sociable. I'm very insecure.

You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.

The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.

To be honest, I find going out pretty scary and intimidating. Got all those people checking you out, with only one purpose: hooking up. I'm quite the dork, I'd rather sit home and play Scrabble. But that doesn't get you a girl, does it?

I was almost tragically shy, like, clinically. I should've been admitted somewhere. I think my parents knew, but maybe they didn't think much about it. It's hard walking the Earth shy. You miss out on a lot.

Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there's always one brave enough to stay.

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

The subject of an outsider who becomes obsessed.

I have this complex that if I walk into a place wearing a colorful shirt someone will stop me and say, 'I'm sorry, but the Latin band comes through the other door.'

Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being diminished in the eyes of others. We have all felt this way at one time or another, but some feel it more consistently. Unfortunately, our schools often do not embrace the talents of many of their occupants.

The biggest effect celebrity had on me was that I stopped being open and receptive and started to walk around with my head down.

I was so shy when I was younger. When I first went to Liverpool I didn't say a word for a year.

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

I might just stop talking again and not do interviews.

I was the shyest kid. I'd never speak, only if I had to. Honestly.

I guess I am actually quite shy, and I've always felt very self-conscious during interviews.

Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.

As evidenced during my failed audition, I'm a thorough introvert who would completely hate living in a 'Real World' house. I would have taken my Ikea comforter to the confessional room and never come out.