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There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.

~A. Scott Berg

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I'm not the first to admit that raising a child in Park Slope, Brooklyn, can bear an embarrassing resemblance to the TV show 'Portlandia.' My wife and I try to have some ironic distance from the culture of organic, chemical-free parenting, but we're often participants.

~Adam Davidson

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Being an actor is just kind of embarrassing.

~Adam Scott

Topics: Actor Being Embarrassing Just Just Kind Kind

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As far as base humiliation goes, acting is a tough business. It's a tough, embarrassing thing to do for a living when you're starting out, and you better not have any ego or pride, because that will be wiped away clean by utter devastation.

~Adam Scott

Topics: Acting Any As Far As Away Base Because Better Business Clean Devastation Ego Embarrassing Far Goes Humiliation Living Out Pride Starting Thing Tough Utter Will Wiped You

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I immediately understood the general air of humiliation that comes with trying to do something as ridiculous as be an actor in Hollywood. It's just kind of an embarrassing endeavor.

~Adam Scott

Topics: Actor Air Embarrassing Endeavor General Hollywood Humiliation Immediately Just Just Kind Kind Ridiculous Something Trying Understood

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Because work takes up a lot of time, you have to choose your moments for really letting rip. I hang out with my friends and my family and I spend time with my kids when I'm not working. They don't see my being an actor as exotic. For them, it's just an everyday thing. Sometimes it's amusing to them and other times, embarrassing.

~Aidan Gillen

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I think it's embarrassing for our industry that we have such low diversity across senior-level management at all of the mainstream, top-tier venture capital firms.

~Aileen Lee

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I have found great power in taking my 'difference' out for a spin in a very public way. And usually, the worst, most personally embarrassing thing you imagine in your mind is often not anywhere near as bad in real life.

~Aimee Mullins

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If you have a secret, and it's embarrassing to you, when you tell that story - you own it. It becomes yours, and no one can use it against you.

~Aisha Tyler

Topics: Against Becomes Embarrassing Own Secret Story Tell Use You Yours

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If you have an embarrassing story, and it's a source of shame, keeping it in just compounds the shame and turns the story into something poisonous. And if someone knows about it, then it can be used against you.

~Aisha Tyler

Topics: About Against Compounds Embarrassing Just Keeping Knows Poisonous Shame Someone Something Source Story Then Turns Used You

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