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Plots may be simple or complex, but suspense, and climactic progress from one incident to another, are essential. Every incident in a fictional work should have some bearing on the climax or denouement, and any denouement which is not the inevitable result of the preceding incidents is awkward and unliterary.

H. P. Lovecraft

Work Simple Progress Result

Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.

Music Heavy Involved Lifting

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

You Feel Grow New

I don't know if it's changing already with 'Joanne,' but my intention is to bring people together that don't know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That's what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.

Family Music History People

Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new.

Best You Feel Sometimes

I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.

Steven Spielberg

Myself Friends Never Shy

I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes.

Advertising Need Clients Avoid

When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.

Annie Leibovitz

Me You Picture Someone

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.

Freedom Truth Responsibility Tears

Most frontmen are not born hams like David Lee Roth. We're more like Joey Ramone: awkward geeks who somehow find our place in the world on the stage.

World Place Born Find

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My biggest problem in my life is I'm cheap and I didn't hire a publicist. In every awkward interview, normally actors get these things scripted.

Robert Pattinson

Life My Life Problem Things

I don't want a life without my mom in it, but I'm not someone who curls up in the fetal position and says, 'Mommy, take care of me!' I don't like people catering to me. It feels so awkward and uncomfortable.

Khloe Kardashian

Life Me People Mom

I was an awkward kid.

It's kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody's looking at me.

Alone Me Looking Restaurant

I was a nerd growing up, and I'm a little antisocial and awkward.

Growing Up Up Little Growing

Sometimes, you can not click with somebody, and it can feel awkward.

You Feel Sometimes Somebody

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

Federico Fellini

You Worth Convince Review

I was born in South Africa during apartheid, a system of laws that made it illegal for people to mix in South Africa. And this was obviously awkward because I grew up in a mixed family. My mother's a black woman, South African Xhosa woman... and my father's Swiss, from Switzerland.

Family Mother Father Woman

I've always been obsessed with bad, awkward television and bad public access. Before YouTube, it was a treat coming across that stuff. When I moved to New York, I used to love watching public access late at night.

Love Night Treat Television

I love to watch someone who just goes for it and isn't worried about whether it's silly or awkward or unflattering.

Melissa McCarthy

Love Someone Silly Just

I've grown to love L.A., but it's the most socially awkward place. All these people have come there not to be something but to pretend to be someone trying to be someone.

Melissa McCarthy

Love People Place Someone

In the real world, I kind of, like, thrived a little bit. The things that were awkward about me at school, like being hyper passionate... I realized, 'Oh I'm my own person, and I have my own idiosyncrasies and nuances that I don't mind.'

Me Mind World School

I don't actually like dates. I get awkward as I never know what to do.

Never Know Like Get

I just stick my tongue out because I hate smiling in pictures. It's so awkward. It looks so cheesy.

Hate Pictures Smiling Looks

I don't like to fly. I've never been a good flyer. I have a lot of friends that have permanent nail marks in their arms... The moaning that comes from me when there is turbulence. It's awkward for everyone around.

Good Me Fly Friends

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

Music Me People Stop

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