Awkward Quotes

• 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.

  Steven Spielberg

  Majority, Shy, Momentum

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• Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Change, Single

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Dec 28, 2013

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• Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.

  Drew Barrymore

  Beauty, Beautiful, Self Esteem

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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 never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed here's a place that I can have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable about it.

  Nick Nolte

  Real, Kind, Stage

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

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• Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go.

  Joe Slovo

  Communication, Enemy, Information

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• The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.

  Jodie Foster

  Hard Times, Years, Looks

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• I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.

  Lasse Hallstrom

  Inspiring, Wife, Littles

  "Soft-centred". Interview with David Eimer, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2001.

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• The commentary track became a lot like the movie and there are some funny, long, awkward pauses that you can tell we're just trying to find stuff to say. None of us had gotten to really talk about the movie until that moment and they were in New York and we were in L.A.

  Jay Roach

  New York, Long, Track

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

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• When all of a sudden, people say, 'Wow, you look nice,' and carry on, it's shocking. Really awkward.

  Nikki Cox

  Nice, People, Wow

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• What's interesting is the show allows for the awkward pauses to be captured, which makes it stylistically unique, especially for American audiences.

  Rainn Wilson

  Unique, Interesting, Shows

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• I felt little awkward about taking one boyfriend to see a film starring another boyfriend.

  Shelley Duvall

  Littles, Film, Felt

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• I'm actually part of a number of minorities. I grew up being a horribly awkward kid. A terrible student. And now I find myself as a filmmaker, and you feel kind of alone in the world because you're separate from everyone else.

  Bryan Singer

  Motivational, Kids, Numbers

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• Everyone has a childhood, everyone had awkward years and weird stages. Mine were broadcast for eight years.

  Tina Yothers

  Eight, Years, Childhood

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• I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human.

  Rainn Wilson

  Mean, Thinking, Experience

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• Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.

  Don Adams

  Degrees, Sentimental, Serious

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• Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It's just that constant strangeness. I think it's a very real thing.

  Jason Schwartzman

  Real, Thinking, Dating

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

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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, Wanted

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

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• It's awkward: Here you are with most of your clothes off in bed with this person who you've really just met. You're strangers to each other's bodies and you're coming together for the first time in front of all these people.

  Sheryl Lee

  Clothes, People, Together

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

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• The romance stuff is easy. A sex scene... that's hard, because you don't know what to do. Those scenes are awkward.

  John Turturro

  Sex, Romance, Stuff

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• I'm getting better now, but I used to be incredibly awkward with girls. I think any guy who says 'I've never had an awkward moment with a girl' is a liar.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Girl, Liars, Lying

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• Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

  Joseph Addison

  Confidence, Literature, Merit

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Spectator: with notes and illustrations. In six volumes”, p.46

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• I like parties, but I'm shy, and I often find myself standing around, feeling awkward.

  Michael Bergin

  Party, Feelings, Shy

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• I feel like I'm nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them.

  Bindi Irwin

  Nature, Stars, Wildlife

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• A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple, responsible, and less awkward.

  Charles Edison

  Simple, Confusing, Would Be

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