Uncomfortable Quotes - Page 29

• For a much lauded writer, I'm not terribly self-absorbed. In social situations, which are difficult for me - I mean, this is an interview - I'm normally uncomfortable talking about myself.

  James Ellroy

  Mean, Self, Talking

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 9, 2014.

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• Everything comes from a weird place that I don't understand. I make a piece of art just to prove that I exist in my own way. And I can't make something nice. I have to make something that makes me uncomfortable.

  Josh Smith

  Art, Nice, Pieces

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's often said that I choose subjects that are sensational! I choose to film subjects that spark difficult conversations and make people uncomfortable. Change only comes about when people are forced to discuss an issue, and that's what I hope my films do.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Issues, People, Sparks

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Women do a lot of uncomfortable things for men - and I appreciate it all. I appreciate high heels. I appreciate thongs.

  Joe Manganiello

  Men, High Heels, Appreciate

  Source: www.elle.com

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• If you want to live as a Christian, get comfortable with being uncomfortable.

  Mark Hart

  Christian, Want, Ifs

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.6, Franciscan Media

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• Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Strong, Believe, Self

  "Gather Together in My Name". Book by Maya Angelou, p. 17, 1974.

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• Psychoanalytic doctrine reveals the pig in man, a pig saddled with a conscience; the disastrous result is that the pig is uncomfortable beneath that pious rider, and the rider fares no better in the situation, since his endeavor is not only to tame the pig, but also to render it invisible.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Men, Pigs, Doctrine

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• In truly great films - the ones that people need to make, the ones that start speaking through them, the ones that keep moving into territory that is more and more unfathomable and uncomfortable - nothing's ever simple or neatly resolved. You're left with a mystery.

  Martin Scorsese

  Moving, Simple, People

  "Martin Scorsese channels his inner film critic on ‘The Searchers’" by Guy Lodge, uproxx.com. March 8, 2013.

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• I go to goth clubs dressed as a frat guy so I can stand around and look terribly uncomfortable. At frat parties I do the same thing, but the other way around.

  Myles Munroe

  Party, Guy, Looks

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• "Stepping outside your comfort zone is supposed to feel uncomfortable because we're in new and unfamiliar territory. Being uncomfortable is a sign of success, NOT of failure! So if we are uncomfortably outside our comfort zones, then than means we are growing!!! And THAT is cause for celebration!" (modified from a passage in Roz Savage's "Rowing the Atlantic")

  Roz Savage

  Mean, Comfort, Savages

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• As for my store, most artists' sites send you to a third-party storefront like iTunes, whereas we're disseminating it ourselves. I was always uncomfortable with the thought of sending somebody who came to my site to buy something to some other store. It just occurred to me, "Why can't we do this?"

  DJ Shadow

  Party, Artist, Stores

  "DJ Shadow’s Killer App". Interview with Stephen Robert Morse, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2009.

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• I'm just constantly trying to renew and give myself new challenges and push myself to uncomfortable places, trying to get better.

  Clive Owen

  Giving, Challenges, Trying

  Interview with RZA, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 28, 2015.

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• I think I love humor in poetry, but not that slapstick cheap easy humor, but that uncomfortable, "did she say that out loud?" kind of humor.

  Victoria Chang

  Thinking, Kind, Easy

  Interview with Colin Winnette, logger.believermag.com. June 23, 2014.

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• We climate researchers can only offer possible scenarios. In other words, things could end up being completely different. But there are undoubtedly parts of the world that will benefit on balance from climate change. Those areas tend to be in the north, where it has been cold and uncomfortable in the past. But it's considered practically heretical to even raise such issues.

  Hans von Storch

  Past, Issues, Balance

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Honestly, the most uncomfortable thing for me is my level of incompetence is uncomfortable.

  Timothy Miller

  Levels, Incompetence, Honestly

  "Exclusive: Tim Miller Talks Deadpool Development & X-Men Universe". Interview with Rob Keyes, screenrant.com. November 5, 2015.

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• To be on set every day with a whole bunch of people that know their job and my job a lot better than I do and I'm supposed to tell them what to do, that's very uncomfortable and awkward.

  Timothy Miller

  Jobs, People, Awkward

  "Exclusive: Tim Miller Talks Deadpool Development & X-Men Universe". Interview with Rob Keyes, screenrant.com. November 5, 2015.

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• There are situations where I'm uncomfortable saying, "I'm a hip-hop artist." In some circles, the response is like, "Oh, OK, so... you have whores and your ties are shiny?"

  Pharoahe Monch

  Artist, Circles, Ties

  Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

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• I think it's a really good thing to put yourself in a situation where you feel really uncomfortable because I think things can come out of that discomfort.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Thinking, Good Things, Situation

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

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• A lot of people think that my work is about mocking or making fun of things, but a lot of it is about discomfort and making myself as uncomfortable as the men feel, or putting myself in a situation where I'm revealing my loneliness as much as they're revealing theirs.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Fun, Loneliness, Men

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I'm glad people see some of the stories that way. I see where they're coming from, although none of the stories are specifically intended to arouse. There is a gender divide on the short story "The Girlfriend Game" - women seem to consider it "sexy" but men usually find it uncomfortable.

  Nick Antosca

  Sexy, Girlfriend, Men

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 16, 2013.

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• The guilty are uncomfortable with silence.

  David J. Lieberman

  Silence, Guilty

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• Following Jesus means taking up one's own cross to accompany him on his path, an uncomfortable path that is not one of success or earthly glory, but which leads to true freedom, the freedom from selfishness and sin.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Mean, Selfishness

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• I think that in a general sense, the idea of getting comfortable with the truth in life is uncomfortable.

  Mary McDonnell

  Thinking, Ideas, Life Is

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• As a kid, I just was a contract player at MGM Studios. They put me into goodness knows how many different roles.Some of them were wonderful and some of them were very just distasteful and awful because I was playing out of my age range and I was thoroughly uncomfortable, let's put it that way. So it took me many years to find my acting feet.

  Angela Lansbury

  Kids, Player, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Stay simple and true to your gut. If you feel uncomfortable in something, no matter how fashion-forward it is, it's going to look funny. At the end of the day, I don't think it really matters what you're wearing, because if you shine through in that confidence, you really can convince anybody that what you're wearing is great...as long as it doesn't have too many sparkles!

  Analeigh Tipton

  Fashion, Thinking, Simple

  Source: www.glamour.com

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