Teenager Quotes - Page 5

• I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to like Ernest Hemingway. I was being a stubborn teenager.

  Dree Hemingway

  Men, Sea, Stubborn

  "Dree Hemingway on Her Breakout Film Role in 'Starlet'". Interview with Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. November 9, 2012.

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• As a teenager I was clinically depressed. Although I had lots of friends, I found those years very difficult.

  Lena Headey

  Years, Lots Of Friends, Found

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• I think I draw most inspiration from writers like Richelle Mead and filmmakers like John Hughes. They both really understand the experience of being a teenager and how insistent and intense everything feels, but they're also smart, savvy, and fun.

  Amanda Hocking

  Fun, Smart, Inspiration

  "Meet Mega Bestselling Indie Heroine Amanda Hocking". Interview with Tonya Plank, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2011.

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• I think I related more literally to the early 'Spider-Man' comics from Steve Ditko because it could be upfront and direct about the problems of being a kid. He captured being a teenager so beautifully.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Kids, Men, Thinking

  "Alt-comics great Gilbert Hernandez wanders back into childhood". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.chicagotribune.com. April 17, 2013.

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• I do a one-hour workout called Drenched, a cardio-boxing fitness routine, Monday through Friday. There are usually between twenty-five and fifty people there - everyone from stay-at-home moms and professional martial artists to teenagers and seniors. They play great dance music. When I can, I take two classes back-to-back.

  Carrie Ann Inaba

  Senior, Mom, Friday

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• Johnny Guitar... just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the '50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together.I would hear him sing every night.

  Etta James

  Country, Night, Guitar

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• I went freelance in 1996 and my children are now teenagers and it seemed right.

  Rachel Johnson

  Children, My Children

  "Rachel Johnson: 'I have a duty not to be boring'". Interview With Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2010.

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• I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

  Rachel Johnson

  Children, Thinking, Maturity

  "Rachel Johnson: 'To anyone under 20 I'm basically Methuselah'" by Rachel Johnson, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2012.

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• A child needs to be listened to and talked to at 3 and 4 and 5 years of age. Parents should not wait for the sophisticated conversation of a teenager.

  Bob Keeshan

  Children, Years, Waiting

  "Bob Keeshan, Creator and Star of TV's 'Captain Kangaroo,' Is Dead at 76" by Richard Severo, www.nytimes.com. January 24, 2004.

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• It's every teenager's dream to be in a band, tour the world and be famous.

  Joey McIntyre

  Dream, Band, World

  "NKOTBSB interview: 'One Direction need good songs for success'". Interview with Lewis Corner, www.digitalspy.com. March 16, 2012.

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• If I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it's OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them.

  Alex Kapranos

  Fans, Awe, Feels

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was a teenager, I went on an organised three-day tour of Rome. It was the worst experience ever. I promised myself that I would never travel like that again, with someone telling you what to see and what not to see.

  Diego Luna

  Rome, Three, Worst

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• When I was a teenager, my dad used to put a lot of pressure on me to be successful, and I'd really beat myself up about things like losing martial arts competitions.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Art, Dad, Successful

  "MH Grill: Dolph Lundgren". Interview with Brittany Kennedy, www.menshealth.co.uk. February 19, 2013.

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• I started writing seriously when I was a teenager, around 14 years old.

  Marie Lu

  Writing, Years

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• I have a really big family, and pretty much all my work is about my brothers and sisters. I'm the youngest of eight - my mom had seven kids in seven years, and then she had me 11 years later - so I was basically raised by all these teenagers.

  Ryan McGinley

  Mom, Brother, Kids

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• When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an honourable man and he insisted on paying back all his debts. That almost ruined the family. I was aware that my mother and father couldn't control things anymore. I guess I was afraid that we would end up on the street.

  Jo Nesbo

  Mother, Father, Men

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• My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.

  Frances O'Grady

  Hero, Eye, Men

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• We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

  Tamora Pierce

  Book, Dark, Media

  "YA authors Ally Condie and Tamora Pierce". Interview with Amy L. Hayden, www.timeout.com. November 7, 2011.

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• Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?

  Tamora Pierce

  Book, Giving, News

  "Interview | YA authors Ally Condie and Tamora Pierce". Interview with Amy L. Hayden, www.timeout.com. November 7, 2011.

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• When I was a teenager, if you'd asked me, I would have said I was in a relationship with New York City. It was my first real love.

  Aleksa Palladino

  New York, Real, Cities

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• Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.

  Ann Patchett

  Writing, Two, Wife

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• 'Slumdog' was my first movie, and I had never been to India before - I was just a teenager in the U.K. with my headphones and my Nike shoes. What did I know about growing up in a slum?

  Dev Patel

  Nike, Growing Up, Shoes

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's rough being a teenager in this day and age.

  Kay Panabaker

  Rough, This Day, Age

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My whole thing is that often times when teenagers are about 18, 19, 20, 21, they get this mentality that they have to be old, they have to appear older, they can no longer be seen as a high schooler, they need to be seen as mid-20s all of a sudden even though they're only, like, 20. I'm the opposite of that.

  Kay Panabaker

  Opposites, High School, Needs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.

  Madeleine Peyroux

  Artist, Thinking, Long

  "Madeleine Peyroux looks deep inside". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. August 19, 2009.

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