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It’s easy for Andrew McMahon to feel self-conscious when he listens back to “Everything In Transit,” his 2005 debut album as Jack’s Mannequin.

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Amid the film’s self-conscious depiction of a brewing tempest, he remains a true force of nature.

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Then I realized she too might have just felt self-conscious to be on TV.

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She had been self-conscious, but as she began to meet more young people going through similar situations, she regained her confidence.

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"People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm. It's not easy being Robert Redford," he once told New York magazine.

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