Awkward Quotes - Page 15

• I was called a bookish child. Mother sent me to a ballet teacher in Cincinnati when I was nine years old. I guess I was an awkward child and the family wanted me to be graceful. When I found out I liked to dance and people seemed to like to watch me, I was determined to go places.

  Vera-Ellen

  Mother, Teacher, Children

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I was younger, I really struggled with confidence. You go through those awkward, dorky, geeky stages, and growing up in the industry amplifies all that. Fortunately, I have a mother who encouraged me to build my confidence from within and embrace my imperfections.

  Jurnee Smollett

  Mother, Growing Up, Imperfection

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• I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late ’90s!

  Aaron Tveit

  School, Middle, Late

  "Broadway Favorite Aaron Tveit Tackles the Small Screen With ‘Graceland’". Interview with Suzy Evans, www.backstage.com. June 27, 2013.

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• Whats more awkward than doing a shower scene? Rehearsing a shower scene.

  Cobie Smulders

  Scene, Showers, Rehearsing

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• Getting up to dance to your own stuff looks pretty pretentious. And leaving the dancefloor when it comes on is just awkward.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Inspirational, Dance, Leaving

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• I don't just look at the thing itself or at the reality itself; I look around the edges for those little askew moments-kind of like what makes up our lives-those slightly awkward, lovely moments.

  Keith Carter

  Photography, Reality, Lovely

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• I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.

  Diane Arbus

  Mean Girls, Photography, Photographer

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• We were in an awkward position against Yugoslavia in that in order to win we needed to score more goals than they did.

  Jose Antonio Camacho

  Football, Winning, Order

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• The devaluation of music and what it's now deemed to be worth is laughable to me. My single costs 99 cents. That's what a single cost in 1960. On my phone, I can get an app for 99 cents that makes fart noises - the same price as the thing I create and speak to the world with. Some would say the fart app is more important. It's an awkward time. Creative brains are being sorely mistreated.

  Vince Gill

  Music, Phones, Creative

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• My life is an awkward visit from the kid's table while awaiting a History Channel special.

  Chris Colfer

  Kids, Special, Tables

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• They had me all happy, singing. It was very awkward. I think the writers are frantically planning something appropriate to honor him, but we don't know what.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Thinking, Honor, Singing

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• I’m not really afraid to be my awkward self, and I know there’s lots and lots of other people just like me out there that are awkward themselves. And I think they just appreciate that I’m not afraid to say the weird things that I say and tweet the obnoxious things that I tweet. But I’ve tried being other people and myself suits me the best. I think you just be honest. I think people respond to honesty.

  Chris Colfer

  Honesty, Thinking, Self

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• I got picked on a lot. I was a complete geek in school. I had braces. I didn't have the hot girlfriend. I wasn't ever sought after. I was a stocky, awkward kid who got laughed off the tennis court when I tried that.

  Josh Brolin

  Girlfriend, Kids, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Whether I serve one or two terms in the Presidency, I will find myself at the end of that period at what might be called the awkward age-too old to begin a new career and too young to write my memoirs.

  John F. Kennedy

  Writing, Careers, Two

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• I found college awkward: another teacher, same old chalkboard.
  I felt I was shifting backward, when I expected to shoot forward.

  MC Paul Barman

  Teacher, Rap, College

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• And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.

  Adam Brody

  Hero, Voice, Guy

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• I'm too awkward to date, I think. I'm kind of all or nothing, you know? Either put a baby inside of me or leave me alone.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Baby, Thinking, Leave Me Alone

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• I have a way of dealing with situations where I come off awkward, or people think I’m purposely trying to make things uncomfortable. But normally I’m talking really slowly or there’s a lot of silence because there’s just nothing going on. I’m just totally freaking out, but from the outside perspective it looks like I’m in control.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Thinking, Talking, People

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• Keep my planets in orbit,
  Never forfeit or quit,
  Move forward...
  I talk with the awkward slang,
  I walk with the Wu-Tang.

  RZA

  Rap, Moving, Hip Hop

  Song: Tragedy

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• I feel incredibly awkward as a human being and incredibly teenaged still.

  Andrew Garfield

  Feels, Humans, Stills

  "'Amazing Spider-Man's' Andrew Garfield Admits He's 'Incredibly Awkward'" by Rebecca Ford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 03, 2012.

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• Somewhere along the journey of remembering who we really are, we may find ourselves in a very uncomfortable space, a void in which we realize that we haven't totally let go of our old beliefs, and on the other hand we have yet to fully plug into the new truths we have discovered. This awkward "place of mind" can bring on an internal crisis of uncertainty, instability, confusion, frustration, and a most unspeakable despair as the "dark night" sets in and makes its presence felt.

  Nicholas Schmidt

  Letting Go, Dark, Night

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• I'm the little half-black, half-Jewish girl who was odd and awkward. I try to be myself.

  Lauren London

  Girl, Black, Trying

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• I don't like vampires personally. I don't know any.

  Mitt Romney

  Vampire, Knows

  "The week in one-liners" by Caitlin Mcdevitt, www.politico.com. June 3, 2011.

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• One must not be afraid of a little silence. Some find silence awkward or oppressive. But a relaxed approach to dialogue will include the welcoming of some silence. It is often a devastating question to ask oneself, but it is sometimes important to ask it - 'In saying what I have in mind will I really improve on the silence?

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Silence, Mind, Important

  Robert K. Greenleaf, Larry C. Spears (2002). “Servant Leadership: A Journey Into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness”, p.41, Paulist Press

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• My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them as a playwright. It's quite embarrassing, it's quite unpleasant, it's quite awkward.

  Wallace Shawn

  People, Style, Needs

  W. Davies King, Wallace Shawn (1997). “Writing Wrongs: The Work of Wallace Shawn”, p.23, Temple University Press

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