Alafair Burke Quotes

I would have liked to be a nerd. I didn't even make it to that.

I always thought I wasn't cool enough in school, I was in the 'nerd' crew. I actually enjoyed studying.

I was the youngest of my entire family so you are tap-dancing to try to get the attention of your older cousins. I really hit my social stride in 6th grade, but before that I was a pretty big dork. You learn how to be amusing and how to work for it.

When I was very young I never thought I was attractive, because I was a tomboy and I was always the biggest girl in the class.

Insecurity is a natural part of human nature, and there are times we feel our stories are not worth telling, so we turn to the people we admire for strength. If we dress like someone everyone thinks is cool, perhaps we'll be seen as cool.

I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off.

I'm a nerd. Total geek. I never went to homecoming or prom or anything.

Just because I never went to university doesn't mean you can't read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.

I'm not good at anything except writing jokes. I wasn't good at sports, I wasn't good at anything artsy, ever. I think there was a real worry for a while about what I would be good at. I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd.

So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship.

My goal was to prove to my family I wasn't a dummy.

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

I was kind of shy as a kid. I was a pretty good student. I was a wallflower, or nerd, if you will.

Even a lot of kids who are gifted can be kids who feel like wimps or nerds.

I'm basically a professional nerd, and I'm still not cool. I'm around people who are cool sometimes, and I know I'm not them. But that's OK; I don't care.

Parents don't want their kids to be nerdy.

When I was in grade five or six, I just remember quite a lot of people were always talking about me like I was some kind of math genius. And there were just so many moments when I realized, like, okay, why can't I just be like some normal person and go have a 75% average like everyone else.

I've always been a mediocre student, so I never won an award in school. I'm not very athletic, so I've never won a sports award. So, I'm a mediocre person.

I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.

I am not the type who'd enter the best schools just to prove myself.

For some reason as a kid being a smart athlete didn't seem like the right thing, because you didn't fit in. You didn't want to be too smart because you'd be a nerd. But then you didn't want to be too dumb either because then you didn't get the grades you needed to play.

I think we all go through those moments of self-doubt.

My freshman year, I was such an immature kid and I didn't know what to expect, I didn't know what I wanted or what I could do or what my abilities were off the court.

One of the best ways to deal with the peer pressure of the 'Fear of Missing Out' is to opt-out whenever possible.

I was never going to be very cute. I always looked for the best people to play with and, 'cause, to make myself look better.