Social Awkwardness Quotes

• To combat social awkwardness, I would just act like I couldn't be bothered - that kind of aloof persona or aloof demeanor. It's so off-putting.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Kind, Social, Combat

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. June 25, 2010.

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• Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

  Helen Keller

  Friendship, Sweet, Book

  "The Story of My Life" by Helen Keller, (Ch. 21), 1903.

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• I get so nervous. I happen to be socially awkward and shy. I spent a lot of my time as an adult not going places.

  Christina Ricci

  Awkward, Adults, Shy

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• I'm certainly honest - and I can be socially awkward.

  Norman Reedus

  Awkward, Honest, I Can

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• I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life.

  Alicia Witt

  Creative, Being Real, Awkward

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Stealing ideas from contemporaries is rude and tasteless. Stealing from the long dead is considered literary and admirable. The same is true of grave-robbing. Loot your local cemetery and find yourself mired in social awkwardness. But unearth the tomb of an ancient king and you can feel free to pop off his toe rings. You'll probably end up on a book tour, or bagging an honorary degree or two.

  N.D. Wilson

  Kings, Book, Ideas

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• Social awkwardness is not a sin, in defense of liberty.

  Matt Kibbe

  Liberty, Defense, Sin

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• I was born in Copenhagen, and when I was a year old, we moved to Bangalore. I was always a shy person and was happy with just a few friends and that came from my own social awkwardness. I did not know how to make conversations.

  Deepika Padukone

  Years, Shy, Few Friends

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Being an evil dude: You create this false identity of who you really are and hide behind that as a means to deal with your peers and to hide behind your social awkwardness and inabilities and inadequacies.

  Blake Judd

  Mean, Evil, Identity

  "Don't Call It a Rip-Off". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.

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