Uncomfortable Quotes · Page 47

The news of my pregnancy got out when I was in the middle of my first trimester. I hadn't even had a…

— Jennifer Garner

I do get recognised, but if I'm in a restaurant, I'll get one person noticing me, not the whole place. It is…

— Ruth Wilson

I never think of my work as writing for a young audience, frankly, because I think it risks talking 'down' to them.…

— Soman Chainani

I always just wanted to write and maybe direct. I'm really only interested in that. And yet the business that I'm in…

— Rob Thomas

I thought I would write something that would make some people uncomfortable. . . . What intrigued me, I think, was the…

— Wendy Wasserstein

When I wrote that [Donald] Trump piece, I had this uncomfortable experience of sensing a lot of things that were nascent, that…

— George Saunders

I have tried to be more flexible, but I always end up feeling more uncomfortable. Retaining a sense of control is really…

— Daniel Tammet

There are things I don't like, like sitting at the head of the class. It makes me uncomfortable. I'll do it in…

— Paul Beatty

Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because…

— Joanna Macy

If you're really going to uncover something as an artist, you're going to come into access with parts of your personality and…

— Billy Corgan

No matter what I do, all people talk about is production design, whether it's not good enough or it is good enough.…

— Anna Biller

Contemporary art often plays to the part of us that is very uncomfortable with not being sure, that cannot maintain a state…

— Grayson Perry

Once I was in a shopping centre with some Western Sydney Wanderers boys and this kid came up to me and said,…

— Aaron Mooy

They sent me the script, asking me to play the part of a general. I have never played the part of an…

— Mark Goddard

It's often said that I choose subjects that are sensational! I choose to film subjects that spark difficult conversations and make people…

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a…

— Zosia Mamet

What really sells a fight, and any kind of action, is the performance of it. If someone is uncomfortable or uncertain about…

— Zoe Bell

I think I can get a little passionate about things that I believe in and maybe that can be a little intense…

— Liza Weil

I personally think that today, Iraq without Saddam Hussein is a truly better Iraq than with Saddam Hussein. But, naturally, I also…

— Aleksander Kwasniewski

I have always been uncomfortable with a series of movies. I hate that word 'franchise' - it always makes me think of…

— Sigourney Weaver

There's something about trying to know when you really need to protect yourself, or else you're not going to get anything done,…

— Regina Spektor

When service is overly attentive, I become uncomfortable - I don't like it, for example, when a waiter tops up my glass…

— Nobu Matsuhisa

Everyone feels awkward, everyone feels uncomfortable, everyone gets older, everyone gets lonely, everyone gets sick, everyone eventually dies. You’re at the Aspen…

— Moby

I argued that physical discomfort is important only when the mood is wrong. Then you fasten on to whatever thing is uncomfortable…

— Robert M. Pirsig

If someone opens a glorious Scotch or a bottle of wine, it's no more than a whimsy, but after nearly 40 years…

— Martin Shaw

We seem to prefer a comfortable lie to the uncomfortable truth. We punish those who point out reality, and reward those who…

— Bill Moyers

I think watching too much TV as a kid led me to being very uncomfortable in new situations. To this day, when…

— Judd Apatow

One of the things I've really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by…

— Aimee Mann

I think that it's a natural thing for parents to look for reflections of themselves in their children and feel a certain…

— Bruce Springsteen

I have this thing. I've always been uncomfortable going to any party where people don't understand why I'm there. One of the…

— Jim Parsons

I've always been paranoid about the police, because even when I'm not doing anything illegal, I'm thinking about doing something illegal. So,…

— Marilyn Manson

“Bob grinned. 'Wear that white swimsuit you bought last week, OK?' he said. 'I want all the other guys to wish you…

— Francine Pascal

Stories about sensitive issues like sex, drugs or sexual assault, suicide and teen drinking, are often censored because people just don't want…

— Jay Asher

We have to remember that the experience of gangsta rap as such in its foundation is an anti-systemic experience primarily. And it…

— Bocafloja

My music is not really complicated. It's not really complicated and it's not - I wouldn't say simple - but it's not…

— John Talabot

Imagine the first Burmese "giraffe woman"; she was probably a local icon in her village in the way she put the rings…

— Noma Bar

I was thirteen, and I did a movie that got attention, and I got attention, and I didn't like it - it…

— Alexander Skarsgard

I'm not entirely comfortable saying I'm an actor, because it seems like a very weird, almost dorky thing to say you are.…

— Seth Rogen

Now, race is one of those topics in America that makes people extraordinarily uncomfortable. You bring it up at a dinner party…

— Mellody Hobson

In almost every professional field, in business and in the arts and sciences, women are still treated as second-class citizens. It would…

— Betty Friedan