Awkward Quotes - Page 6

• The present is filled with flotsam and irony and chaos and disorder in all arenas, political and sociological. I think we have to work in the present even if it's awkward, even if it's not necessarily good, even if we don't understand it ourselves. You only find out 10, maybe 20 years later what was going on.

  Frank Gehry

  Thinking, Years, Political

  "New Again: Frank Gehry". Interview with Angela Ledgerwood and Ross Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 19, 2012.

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• I really like the stuff that is very absurd and very real at the same time. I think Anton Chekhov is the greatest comedy writer of all time. I think he would make a great addition to The Office staff. If you look through Chekhov plays there is a lot of awkward pauses in there. His mixture of pathos, absurdity, truthfulness and whimsy is just mixed together perfectly.

  Rainn Wilson

  Real, Thinking, Play

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. November 11, 2010.

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• I always believed I was an ugly duckling in a family of swans, you know? I was such a black sheep, and it was the same way in high school... I was just kind of that awkward theater kid with a bunch of athletes... it was very Glee.

  Lindsay Pearce

  Athlete, School, Kids

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• Taxes are a barbaric remnant of ancient times in which early farmers, tied to the land, no longer able to roam freely, unable to fight back with awkward agricultural tools the way they once could with hunting implements, became victims, first, of itinerant plunderers, then of bandits settling down beside them to become the governments we know today.

  L. Neil Smith

  Fighting, Hunting, Government

  "The Unnecessary Depression". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. February 01, 2009.

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• My awkward stage extended well into high school.

  Rachelle Lefevre

  School, Stage, Wells

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

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• I was pretty awkward when I was young, but I was never afraid of putting myself out there. I would say stupid things but then they would laugh at me and possibly find it endearing.

  Kunal Nayyar

  Stupid, Laughing, Young

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

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• It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Thinking, Years, Unhappy

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3427, e-artnow

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• Kids have awkward moments.

  Kenan Thompson

  Kids, Moments

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. December 22, 2004.

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• I don't know, I'm literally the most awkward, socially strange person.

  Phoebe Tonkin

  Strange Person, Persons, Knows

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

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• When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.

  Criss Jami

  Writing, Creativity, Average

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.37, Criss Jami

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• Most frontmen are not born hams like David Lee Roth. We're more like Joey Ramone: awkward geeks who somehow find our place in the world on the stage.

  Chris Cornell

  Ham, World, Geek

  FaceBook post by Chris Cornell from Apr 04, 2012

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• I've always felt myself to be an outsider. I've always felt awkward.

  Jeremy Paxman

  Outsiders, Felt

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• Latin! The language of God! Or perhaps He speaks Hebrew? I suppose that's more likely and it will make things rather awkward in heaven, won't it? Will we all have to learn Hebrew?

  Bernard Cornwell

  Latin, Heaven, Language

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• I'm not that good looking. That's why 'Gangnam Style' works. If someone handsome uses that phrase it's just awkward. But if someone like me uses it, it's funny.

  PSY

  Style, Phrases, Use

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• Not belonging is a terrible feeling. It feels awkward and it hurts, as if you were wearing someone else's shoes.

  Phoebe Stone

  Hurt, Shoes, Feelings

  Phoebe Stone (2012). “The Romeo and Juliet Code”, p.65, Scholastic Inc.

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• I'm very quiet. I can go a whole week without talking, so doing interviews is really awkward for me!

  Katie Leung

  Talking, Interviews, Quiet

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• If you're able to arrange a trial period with a new hire, do it. It will give both of you a chance to make sure the position is a good fit - and can help you avoid being in the awkward situation of wanting to fire someone three or four weeks in.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Fire, Giving, Three

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• As you're growing up, it's odd, because directors don't expect you to grow up. They think you'll be young forever, but as an actor, there is an awkward period when you're too young for old or too old for young, and it can be an odd time.

  Nicholas Hoult

  Growing Up, Thinking, Forever

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• I think the only reason I wanted to do modeling, really, was because I knew I wasn’t ready to act; I knew I didn’t have enough life experience, and I knew that doing photo shoots was a way of acting. Playing a character each shoot and being able to just emerge yourself in these awkward experiences - it was amazing.

  Dree Hemingway

  Character, Thinking, Acting

  "Futures: Sean Baker’s ‘Starlet’ Dree Hemingway Opens Up About Life as Model and Acting Opposite an 87-Year-Old Newcomer". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. November 8, 2012.

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• Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.

  Edward Bond

  Men, Mad, Pity

  Edward Bond (2013). “Lear”, p.84, A&C Black

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• If you asked me to go back to being 14 or 15, I couldn't - it was a terrifying time. I was so awkward in my own skin. I used to hide behind my hair because I was so ridiculously self-conscious.

  Florence Welch

  Hair, Self, Skins

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• Long sentences, awkward constructions, and fuzzy-wuzzy words that seem to apologize for daring to venture an opinion are part of the price the law reviews pay for their precious dignity.

  Fred Rodell

  Law, Long, Venture

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• Every single member is so precious to me and like family to me.. I may joke around with them a lot but I can't talk seriously with them..because it's awkward for me. But on the inside, I really do think of each one of you so much and I want you all to know that.

  Kim Hyo-yeon

  Thinking, Snsd, May

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• I never had any awkward situations with Shah Rukh.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Awkward Situations, Situation

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• Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.

  Charlie Day

  Actors, Position

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