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My forte is awkwardness. -- Zach Galifianakis
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. -- Joseph Addison
My freshman year of high school was just awkwardness all around. -- Molly Tarlov
After every single take, I laugh. It's my own awkwardness and discomfort about being an actor. -- Seth Rogen
Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels. -- David Cameron
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
It has not been an easy cross to bear. It has caused considerable confusion. My husband constantly complained about the awkwardness of being married to a woman whom he called Sister. -- Sister Parish
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. -- Helen Keller
I was born in Copenhagen, and when I was a year old, we moved to Bangalore. I was always a shy person and was happy with just a few friends and that came from my own social awkwardness. I did not know how to make conversations. -- Deepika Padukone
Awkwardness gives me great comfort. -- Marc Jacobs
Misfortune is mostly an awkwardness! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Awkwardness aside, it's nice to be liked. -- Veronica Roth
Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness. -- Ruta Sepetys
Awkwardness and feeling alienated are always going to be a part of comedy. -- Mike Birbiglia
Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dating is great unless you don't like horrible awkwardness, lying, and a deep foreboding sense of disappointment that never goes away. -- Dov Davidoff
Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be; it often occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity. -- Lord Chesterfield
The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws. -- Alexandre Dumas
A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everywhere there is craft and technique; everywhere there is artistry and form. Art itself, technique, is ponderous and clumsy, and because of its awkwardness it obstructs that inner element... -- Kazimir Malevich
The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fashions of past days,--mere courtliness, knee-buckles and small- clothes, out of date. -- Henry David Thoreau
Awkwardness gives me great comfort. I've never been cool, but I've felt cool. I've been in the cool place, but I wasn't really cool - I was trying to pass for hip or cool. It's the awkwardness that's nice. -- Marc Jacobs
My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood; is quite out of his Element when he would be an Advocate for Justice, which as an Office unnatural, he always attempts with great Awkwardness if not with Ill-will. -- Jonathan Swift
Awkwardness is where tension is, and tension is where the story is. It's also where the comedy is, which I'm interested in; when it resolves it tends to resolve toward melancholy, a certain resignation, which I find interesting as well. -- Lorrie Moore
In stating as fully as I could how things really were, it was often very difficult and I wrote awkwardly and the awkwardness is what they called my style. All mistakes and awkwardness are easy to see, and they called it style. -- Ernest Hemingway
In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. The things I have learned and the things I have been taught seem of ridiculously little importance compared with their "large loves and heavenly charities. -- Helen Keller
What people really want is not to make something funny, but to make something amusing - which, in many ways, is the opposite of funny. To amuse someone is to eliminate discomfort and awkwardness, kind of like a massage for the brain, while to be funny is to point out awkwardness and discomfort. Everyone thinks they want funny, but they really want amusement. -- Christian Finnegan
I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. Almost no new classics resemble other previous classics. At first people see only the awkwardness. Then they are not so perceptible. When they show so very awkwardly people think these awkwardnesses are the style and many copy them. This is regrettable. -- Ernest Hemingway
Stealing ideas from contemporaries is rude and tasteless. Stealing from the long dead is considered literary and admirable. The same is true of grave-robbing. Loot your local cemetery and find yourself mired in social awkwardness. But unearth the tomb of an ancient king and you can feel free to pop off his toe rings. You'll probably end up on a book tour, or bagging an honorary degree or two. -- N.D. Wilson
Shyness displays itself differently in me. I think it's more an awkwardness. -- Daniel Radcliffe
If you don't have anything nice to say... dead silence creates a lot awkwardness. -- Jeff Rich
Everyone seems to relate to the awkwardness of being a teenager, or even a 30-year-old. -- Eddie Kaye Thomas
To combat social awkwardness, I would just act like I couldn't be bothered - that kind of aloof persona or aloof demeanor. It's so off-putting. -- Janeane Garofalo
Often, joking for me is a way of diffusing the awkwardness of a situation, so it's kind of exhilarating to be a part of projects where there's nothing funny or lighthearted. -- Emma Stone
Depeche Mode have never got over their teenage awkwardness with each other. We're still like that. Mates but not mates. That awkwardness is there, only now we have families and kids. -- Dave Gahan
That's usually how I get to know strangers - get inappropriately touchy. Once they've experienced the awkwardness of you being way too close for comfort, after that, it all gets easy. -- Natasha Lyonne
A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked. -- Maggie Grace
I think the core criterion is the social awkwardness, but the sensory issues are a serious problem in many, many cases of autism, and they make it impossible to operate in the environment where you're supposed to be social. -- Temple Grandin
I saw the original that Gela Babluani wrote and directed called '13 Tzameti,' and that was very interesting. I believe it was a French film, and I was just intrigued by the awkwardness; the off-beatness of the film really just grasped me. -- David Zayas
To all the women that I've offended, I had no intention to be offensive, to violate any physical or emotional space. I was trying to establish personal relationships, but the combination of awkwardness and hubris led to behavior that I think many found offensive. -- Bob Filner
Illustrado' is not an autobiography. Only the ideas are autobiographical; the ideas of bitterness, frustration, unchanging society, an individual lost, social awkwardness... The book satirises archetypes from across Filipino society, and I felt that the least I could do was offer myself up, too. -- Miguel Syjuco
Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness. -- Norah Jones
Vietnamese food has probably been saved from the mass market because most people never master the sauces and condiments that must be added to the food, at the table, for its glories to become apparent. It's too much trouble, and a lot of people don't like asking for help, especially if the interaction involves some linguistic awkwardness. -- Tyler Cowen
You learn timing on the road. You learn structure and how to read an audience. You learn so much about the business of laughter that you can't learn on a set, because it's all on you. Sometimes you bomb, and you know not to tell that joke again... You just hope people find the humor in the awkwardness. -- Marlon Wayans
Much awkwardness ensued. -- Patricia Briggs
Anger is practical awkwardness. -- Charles Caleb Colton
She had the most beautiful awkwardness -- Brandon Stanton
Diffidence and awkwardness are antidotes to love. -- William Hazlitt
Sometimes you need to be awkward to beat awkwardness -- Charlie Flynn
Social awkwardness is not a sin, in defense of liberty. -- Matt Kibbe
There are a lot of difficult situations that lead to awkwardness. -- Jemaine Clement
I give you Mercedes Athena Thompson, our newest member." Much awkwardness ensued. -- Patricia Briggs
A lot of support gets withheld out of fear of awkwardness and misspeaking. -- Carolyn Hax
If you dont have anything nice to say... dead silence creates a lot awkwardness. -- Jeff Rich
You havenâ??t experienced awkwardness until youâ??ve seen a three-million-dollar piece of software cry. -- Charles Yu
It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method. -- Erin McKeown
Perhaps anything that he did would have pleased Lucy, but his awkwardness went straight to her heart. -- E. M. Forster
To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness. -- Ovid
All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art." -- Roman Payne
i have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side. -- David Levithan
Because that was some mega tense awkwardness, a real 'Hello my name is Ever and I'll be your next stalker' kind of moment... -- Alyson Noel
The awkwardness of getting reward in a well-off society is that the creation of appetite often requires undoing the work of satisfying appetite. -- George Ainslie
There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking out. -- Victoria Chang
I can never be important to any one.' 'What is to prevent you?' 'Every thing "? my situation "? my foolishness and awkwardness. -- Jane Austen
Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness. There's love and emotion trying to express itself, but at the time, it just ends up being awkward. -- Ruta Sepetys
I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness. -- Jane Austen
I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness." -Edward Ferrars -- Jane Austen
How did Adam do it? He seemed to be able to look past Miles's weirdness and insecurities and awkwardness to see Miles, himself, what he was-whatever he was-inside. -- Rowan Speedwell
Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate. -- William Hazlitt
Barbarian --A Code of Conduct honored by all true barbarian warriors, requiring excellent coordination with weapons, closeness to nature, awkwardness with women, common sense, and completion of the mission. -- Piers Anthony
I have heard that stiff people lose something of their awkwardness under high ceilings, and in spacious halls. I think, sculptureand painting have an effect to teach us manners, and abolish hurry. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most important thing is that you're comfortable with who you're working with as a person. Forget the music, if you can sit in a room with someone and you don't have awkwardness. -- Jarryd James
I didn't realize then that so much of being adult is reconciling ourselves with the awkwardness and strangeness of our own feelings. Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience -- Douglas Coupland
I have come to the belief that there is not merely an accidental relationship between bad writing and routine sociological research, but a wonderfully pure, integral relationship; the awkwardness is necessary and inevitable. -- Elizabeth Hardwick

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