Awkwardness Quotes

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

Book, Friends, Talk

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
Joseph Addison

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

Work, Mean, Stand

Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels.
David Cameron

Personal, Took, Edward

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

Music, Play, Learned

After every single take, I laugh. It's my own awkwardness and discomfort about being an actor.
Seth Rogen

Single, Laugh, After

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.
Ninon de L'Enclos

Men, Woman, Lose

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

Social, Act, Bothered

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

Humor, Hope, Business

My forte is awkwardness.
Zach Galifianakis

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

Beautiful, Fake, Hard

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

Husband, Woman, Confusion

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