#awkward

Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#bit #felt #freaks #going #had

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

— Brian Tracy

#comfort #comfort zone #feel #grow #move

As you're growing up, it's odd, because directors don't expect you to grow up. They think you'll be young forever, but as an actor, there is an awkward period when you're too young for old or too old for young, and it can be an odd time. ↗

— Nicholas Hoult

#awkward #because #directors #expect #forever

I wasn't always this confident. Growing up as the awkward gay kid in a small town in Pennsylvania, you're constantly told, 'Don't be yourself, don't be proud of who you are.' ↗

— Carson Kressley

#awkward #be yourself #confident #constantly #gay

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

#arranging #awkwardness #front #i #instead

I'd violated the primary rule of junior and senior high-- don't get people talking about you too much. This was wearing the brightest shirt on the playground. This was Mom giving you a kiss in the lobby. ↗

— Darin Strauss

#embarrassment #high-school #life