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
I'm often in conversations with people who have learning disabilities, and they talk about how they were teased and perhaps laughed at sometimes as children. That was never the case with me. Maybe it was something about my personality, my temperament, but I don't ever remember being teased. I remember the awkwardness of leaving class to go to a special class, but that's all.
Much awkwardness ensued.
If you dont have anything nice to say. . . dead silence creates a lot awkwardness.
Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels.
Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness.
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.
My forte is awkwardness.
Misfortune is mostly an awkwardness!
Awkwardness and feeling alienated are always going to be a part of comedy.
Everyone seems to relate to the awkwardness of being a teenager, or even a 30-year-old.
Sometimes you need to be awkward to beat awkwardness
To have properly studied the liberal sciences gives a polish to our manners, and removes all awkwardness.
Anger is practical awkwardness.
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.
Social awkwardness is not a sin, in defense of liberty.
Diffidence and awkwardness are antidotes to love.
You haven’t experienced awkwardness until you’ve seen a three-million-dollar piece of software cry.
I think if anything, the fact that it's popular right now makes me go: "Well, I guess I'm going to start doing something else then in the next few years. " I dunno, it almost feels hackneyed at this point. To start a premise by saying, "I did this awkward thing. " But then again, awkwardness and feeling alienated are always going to be a part of comedy. Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.
Awkwardness gives me great comfort.
