A Quote by Pat Conroy

Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to strangers.

Pat Conroy

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Pat Conroy
American - Writer
October 26, 1945 - March 4, 2016

This uses a lens system, which I have used for years in various different ways, but I've never used it in the context of an interview. This is the very first time that I've done that. It's a lens called The Revolution, so it allowed me to interview Elsa [Dorfman] and actually operate the camera. Well one of the cameras, because there were four cameras there.

Errol Morris

People can hide behind a computer, they can hide behind a cell phone, they can tweet. They can say whatever they want. I'm not worried about them.

Andy Dalton

Technology can become a crutch. Sometimes it's there just to hide behind when you're shy of what you're trying to say.

Robert Lepage

I've always been shy and that's partly why I chose a life behind the lens. I like people to look at my work and hopefully it speaks for itself.

Bruce Weber

... I think it is fair to say that all war photographers hide behind their cameras. I hid behind mine for years and years and years. It was a shield... I think that the photographer in combat has a greater protection than the soldier who has a rifle in his hand. That camera has unbelievable protective power.

Carl Mydans

Everybody's wearing a disguise, to hide what they've got left behind their eyes.

Bob Dylan

Although I am a committed Catholic priest, and nowhere hide that fact, my focus is very much a spiritual journey.

Henri Nouwen

There is nowhere else I'd rather be, nothing else I would prefer to be doing. I am at the beach looking west with the continent behind me as the sun tracks down to the sea. I have my bearings.

Tim Winton

Lifelessness is only a disguise behind which hide unknown forms of life.

Bruno Schulz

I would hide behind my parents' legs at social events, I was even shy in front of my sisters. I was a really, really ridiculously shy boy. But the one thing I took from my public school education was confidence.

Ben Fogle

In modern life, we hide behind ourselves. In Shakespeare, there's nowhere left to hide. It's life, larger than life, and every actor has to raise their game to get there.

Ray Fearon

Have nothing to do with coaches. In fact, if you should see one coming, go and hide behind the pavilion until he goes away.

Bill O'Reilly

Since I think I am very boring in normal life, I tend to hide behind all these exciting characters, making people believe that I am someone else entirely. That feeling is very powerful.

Sushant Singh Rajput

I always had a sketchbook with me when I was young. I was hiding behind it, basically, hiding behind drawing because I couldn't cope with people in real life; I was very shy and very nervous around people.

Robert Crumb

I think people hide behind anonymity and they feel like they can say whatever they want behind closed doors.

Randi Zuckerberg

I really hate being recognised. I'm quite a shy person, and I'm not very good at talking to strangers. So when people come up to me in the street, I just find it quite awkward. I don't really know what to say to them.

Hannah Murray

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