Uncomfortable Quotes - Page 20

• It's what I do well - I write about things that make people uncomfortable. That's probably the only thing I do better than my peers.

  Janis Ian

  Writing, People, Peers

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• With acting, I've got a character to inhabit. You've got to think about your intentions and your directions. In modeling, even though there's an act to it, a good model is a good model. For me it's uncomfortable territory. You start to feel quite insecure about yourself. There's nothing between you and the camera, and it's just you.

  Max Irons

  Character, Insecure, Thinking

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• I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Focus, Poet

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• All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one cause: the inability to stay present with an uncomfortable feeling in the body and seek short-term relief.

  Pema Chodron

  Philosophy, Character, Medicine

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• I get uncomfortable in large groups of people and loud music.

  Kristin Kreuk

  People, Groups, Loud

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• Having your book edited is like watching your cat being operated on. It's uncomfortable and someone is probably going to get hurt. Most likely the cat. But in the end, things work out for the best and your cat is better it. And then your cat gets released in hardcover, and you have to read all of his reviews.

  Jenny Lawson

  Hurt, Book, Cat

  "Sassy Bloggess Jenny Lawson Mandates Cheesecake for Everyone...and for You to Read Her (Mostly True) Memoir, Out Today". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. April 17, 2012.

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• The hardest thing to write was explaining what anxiety feels like. Every time I'd try to really write about what it feels like to have an anxiety attack, I would actually have an anxiety attack. It was good material but so incredibly uncomfortable.

  Jenny Lawson

  Writing, Anxiety, Trying

  "Sassy Bloggess Jenny Lawson Mandates Cheesecake for Everyone...and for You to Read Her (Mostly True) Memoir, Out Today". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. April 17, 2012.

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• I've done a lot of talk shows where you can tell that the host is just thinking about what he wants to say next while you're answering him and that's really uncomfortable.

  Dave Navarro

  Thinking, Done, Want

  "Catching Up With Dave Navarro". Interview with Liz Kelly, voices.washingtonpost.com. December 13, 2007.

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• If by noise you mean uncomfortable sound, then pop music is noise to me.

  Merzbow

  Mean, Sound, Noise

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• That was where my dream began to take hold, of not havin' to pick cotton and potatoes, and not havin' to be uncomfortable, too hot or too cold. That in itself had driven me to try to find some better way of life.

  Buck Owens

  Dream, Trying, Cotton

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• Now, in answer to the question would we use force in the Middle East. I don't know...I hope not. We have no plans to, it is conceivable, I guess. It would be almost as bad as the seven days in May. You conjure up a situation where there is another oil embargo, and the people in this country are not only inconvenienced and uncomfortable, but suffer.

  George Scratchley Brown

  Country, Oil, People

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• And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don't like that.

  Donna Leon

  People, Want, Advantage

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• I'm so uncomfortable, especially in emotional situations, having to say sentences that don't feel right. As an actor - or really, as any kind of person sensitive to it.

  Franka Potente

  Emotional, Actors, Kind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm often uncomfortable with girliness, to be honest.

  Elizabeth Reaser

  Honest, Being Honest

  "Elizabeth Reaser on Broadway, Breasts and Playing Opposite the Big Boys — Brave and True". Interview with Nancy Doyle Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2012.

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• Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.

  Octavia Spencer

  Mind, Speak, Tendencies

  "Interview with Octavia Spencer of The Help". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. August 9, 2011.

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• There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable to enumerate the rules of his grandparents' faith, if he knows them.

  Amity Shlaes

  Children, Grandparent, Zombie

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• Al Gore's problem, in my view, is that he never liked politics. He's actually deeply uncomfortable in it but felt he had to do it because of his father. He's much more comfortable in a private sector role and has, in fact, been much more successful in a private sector role, and I admire him for that.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Father, Successful, Views

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• You want the audience to be uncomfortable.

  Richard Thompson

  Want, Audience

  "The guitarist picked the right career" by John Burger, www.cnn.com. May 9, 2003.

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• I have very, very few friends. I live in a very tight circle and emotionally I'm probably not as generous as I once was. In an average week I probably meet 150 new people and that's uncomfortable sometimes.

  Veronica Webb

  Average, Circles, People

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• I don't like to think of my readership as "fans," a word which has always suggested a kind of power relationship I'm uncomfortable with.

  Grant Morrison

  Thinking, Fans, Kind

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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• One of the things I've really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are. Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that.

  Aimee Mann

  Couple, Past, Ideas

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• As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' - how much more uncomfortable that it may well be 'the other'.

  Will Self

  May, Discrimination, Wells

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• SHOEBURYNESS (abs.n.) The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom.

  Douglas Adams

  Uncomfortable Feeling, Feelings, Sitting

  "The Meaning of Liff". Book by Douglas Adams, John Lloyd, 1983.

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• Most people do not go to the dentist until they have a toothache; most societies do not reform abuses until the victims begin to make life uncomfortable for others.

  Charles Issawi

  People, Abuse, Reform

  Charles Philip Issawi (1991). “Issawi's laws of social motion”, Darwin Pr

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• If you feel uncomfortable on stage, you can very easily descend into a sort of abyss, convinced you're the worst actor ever, that you're a disgrace to the profession, that you're a disgrace to yourself. It's an awful feeling.

  Stephen Dillane

  Feelings, Actors, Awful

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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