Awkward Quotes - Page 22

• I wouldn't want to be a talk show host. That's another awkward compliment people make. 'You should have your own talk show.' And I think, no thank you.

  Andy Richter

  Thank You, Thinking, Should Have

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

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• Because I was a shy and awkward child, I used humour to deflect attention. It was a controlling mechanism. Because I could use it to control my image.

  Catherine Tate

  Children, Use, Shy

  "What I'm not is a cheery person". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.

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• As opposed to trying to make a kiss look romantic or sweet or passionate, it's kind of fun to just have the freedom to make it look weird, goofy and awkward.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Sweet, Fun, Kissing

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• I'm a pretty goofy person. I'm an awkward dancer, for instance, and a terrible singer.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Dancer, Singers, Goofy

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• Reunions are always fraught with awkward tensions - the necessity to account for oneself; the attempt to find, through memories, an ember of the old emotions.

  Anita Shreve

  Family, Memories, School

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• Passion's a good, stupid horse that will pull the plough six days a week if you give him the run of his heels on Sundays. But love's a nervous, awkward, over-mastering brute; if you can't rein him, it's best to have no truck with him.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Running, Horse, Stupid

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.513, Open Road Media

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• [My father] was generous with his affection, given to great, awkward, engulfing hugs, and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs, all starched shirt, tobacco, Old Spice, and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Friendship, Father, Thinking

  Linda Ellerbee (1993). “Move On”

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• When you consider something like death, after which (there being no news flash to the contrary) we may well go out like a candle flame, then it probably doesn't matter if we try too hard, are awkward sometimes, care for one another too deeply, are excessively curious about nature, are too open to experience, enjoy a nonstop expense of the senses in an effort to know life intimately and lovingly.

  Diane Ackerman

  Flames, Life And Death, Effort

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• Some young people do not sufficiently understand the advantages of natural charms, and how much they would gain by trusting to them entirely. They weaken these gifts of heaven, so rare and fragile, by affected manners and an awkward imitation. Their tones and their gait are borrowed; they study their attitudes before the glass until they have lost all trace of natural manner, and, with all their pains, they please but little.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Pain, Attitude, Glasses

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• If it is dangerous to suppose that government is always right, it will sooner or later be awkward for public administration if most people suppose that it is always wrong.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Government, People, Administration

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• I'm as awkward as it gets, dude, but I embrace the awkward! I embrace the awkward and make everyone else feel awkward

  Christofer Drew

  Embrace, Feels

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• I was afraid to board a streetcar because of the conductor; I was afraid to enter the Kabuki Theater for fear of the usherettes standing along the sides of the red-carpeted staircase at the main entrance; I was afraid to go into a restaurant because I was intimidated by the waiters furtively hovering behind me waiting for my plate to be emptied.

  Osamu Dazai

  Waiting, Boards, Hovering

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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• For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.

  Osamu Dazai

  Expression, People, Broken

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.55, New Directions Publishing

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• People always tell me I'm the complete opposite of Chief Keef and act like I'm supposed to stop him from making his music. But I like Chief Keef, so it's always super awkward. I just make music I like.

  Chance the Rapper

  Opposites, People, Chief Keef

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• I'm really awkward when people recognize me. I'm not good at it, and for the most part it hadn't happened to me until 'True Blood,' and then, all of a sudden, it started happening all the time.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Blood, People, Lizzy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I see a lot of comments on Twitter and stuff about how ugly I am, how bad I am at the drums, how awkward I look, and I'm like, yeah, I agree with most of those things.

  Patrick Carney

  Looks, Ugly, Stuff

  "The Rise of the Black Keys" by Brian Hiatt, www.rollingstone.com. January 19, 2012.

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• I'm definitely on the spectrum of socially awkward.

  Mayim Bialik

  Spectrum, Socially Awkward

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

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• I'm awkward around girls.

  Jamie Bell

  Girl

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• I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now.

  Ed Balls

  Thinking, Years, People

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• No matter where you are or where you grow up, you always go through the same awkward moments of being a teenager and growing up and trying to figure out who you are.

  Aimee Teegarden

  Growing Up, Teenager, Trying

  "Jackson Rathbone and Aimee Teegarden Interview AIM HIGH". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 17, 2011.

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• When I first filmed things, they were always slightly awkward.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Firsts

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• Some people harbour an awkward clash of feelings - homosexual attraction on the one hand and shame or embarrassment about that attraction on the other. It is well known that the mind struggles to sustain conflicting views.

  Evan Davis

  Struggle, Views, Hands

  "Glad to be gay, glad to be Tory" by Evan Davis, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2012.

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• Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.

  Charles Lamb

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Illustrated)”, p.763, Delphi Classics

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• There is nothing worse than the feeling that no one cares whether we exists or not, that no one is interested in what we have to say about life, and that the world can continue turning without our awkward presence

  Paulo Coelho

  Feelings, World, Care

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• I always feel kind of awkward when I look at pictures of myself.
  Watching videos of myself is really uncomfortable.

  Max Irons

  Video, Looks, Kind

  "Max Irons, Model/Actor, Thinks New York Is More Fashionable Than London" By Sarah Leon, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2012.

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