Adolescence Quotes - Page 9

• When I was 14, I felt very rundown; I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60 or something, older than I feel now. And I don't know if it's something that happens at 14, or whether it was adolescence or whether I was gay, or closeted gay, or whatever it was, I felt that.

  Gus Van Sant

  Home, Gay, Feels

  Interview with Briony Hanson at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2009.

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• Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher in the Rye' did just that, and I still do love it.

  Libba Bray

  Book, Love Life, Arrows

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• I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Memories, Years, House

  "Interview: Jeffrey Eugenides on writing in C major". Interview with Carolyn Kellogg, latimesblogs.latimes.com. October 29, 2011.

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• I spent my whole adolescence, when you just want to be accepted, looking much younger than everyone else.

  Jenna Fischer

  Want, Accepted, Whole

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• Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence.

  George Alec Effinger

  Cures, Fine, Burial

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• When faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter to their life story that shows them overcoming the hardship. This skill is particularly important for children, whose identity tends to get locked in during adolescence.

  Bruce Feiler

  Children, Skills, People

  Bruce Feiler (2013). “The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play and Much More”, p.159, Hachette UK

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• Exploration of the natural world begins in early childhood, flourishes in middle childhood, and continues in adolescence as a pleasure and a source of strength for social action.

  David Sobel

  Nature, Childhood, World

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• I may not have gone to high school every day, but I spent whole a lot of my adolescence feeling vulnerable and confused and alone... just like everybody else.

  Michael Cera

  Confused, School, Feelings

  Interview with Jennifer Hundley, www.askmen.com.

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• When you have little girls, you're the coolest person in the world. I know at some point that's going to end; in their adolescence I'll become the opposite of that, especially if I'm parked outside a high school party.

  Jerry O'Connell

  Girl, Party, School

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• I love 'Sweet Valley,' but I love it from a different angle. There are people for whom it is their adolescence. They own it, in a way that even I don't. I've come to respect the project more because of the response than I've had. It's more important than I realized it was. I didn't understand the breadth and depth of it. now I'm beginning to more.

  Francine Pascal

  Sweet, People, Important

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• I think every teenager goes through their angst. People who are like, 'No, I had a perfect adolescence,' make me wonder how that is possible.

  Shailene Woodley

  Teenager, Thinking, People

  "Shailene Woodley Interview the Descendants". Press Day Interview, collider.com. November 18, 2011.

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• My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.

  Rita Levi-Montalcini

  Running, Cutting, Men

  Rita Levi-Montalcini (1988). “In praise of imperfection: my life and work”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• You can certainly extend your adolescence. There's people that are very good at extending it indefinitely.

  Ben Mendelsohn

  People, Very Good, Extending

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• I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with me. I feel really in touch with those feelings, and how intense and complicated life seems in those years.

  Sara Zarr

  Thinking, Years, People

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• I'm pretty squeaky clean. No big tragedies in my childhood or adolescence or adulthood. I've had a very easygoing, simple life.

  Vera Farmiga

  Simple, Childhood, Tragedy

  "Q&A: Bates Motel's Vera Farmiga on the Terrors of Parenthood". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2014.

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• What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when he passes from childhood to adolescence and from youth to manhood. He loses what had hitherto guided his life and lives without direction, not having found a new standard suitable to his age, and so he invents all sorts of occupations, cares, distractions, and stupefactions to divert his attention from the misery and senselessness of his life. Such a condition may last a long time.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Long, People, Childhood

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1989). “I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy”

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• In 1992 I was doing one of my first ever tours and I was in Heathrow airport and I saw these middle-aged musicians who had clearly been on tour for decades, and they all looked haggard and unhappy and unhealthy. I vowed to myself that I would never be that person. Flash forward 20 years and I found myself in Heathrow looking haggard and unhappy and unhealthy. I decided I would rather spend my time staying home working on music and making dinner with friends, instead of spending six months in a hotel in a state of depressing suspended adolescence.

  Moby

  Depressing, Home, Airports

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.

  Amity Shlaes

  Children, Bud, Ears

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• I liked the idea that my character was not gonna be the typical dumb guy that I play, typically. I also loved the fact that it was dealing with kind of adult-extended adolescence, which I think is always interesting - a bunch of people that don't wanna grow up.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Growing Up, Character, Thinking

  "From 'Pale Force' to 'My Boys' Region native Jim Gaffigan keeps comedy career chuggin' with new sitcom". "Post-Tribune" Newspaper, December 15, 2006.

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• Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.

  Quentin Crisp

  Drug, Exhibitionism, Novices

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, 1968.

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• My own first love was biology. I spent a great part of my adolescence in the Natural History museum in London (and I still go to the Botanic Garden almost every day, and to the Zoo every Monday). The sense of diversity of the wonder of innumerable forms of life has always thrilled me beyond anything else.

  Oliver Sacks

  Monday, Zoos, First Love

  "Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, 1995.

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• The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of ill-gaited and wind-broken horses, painted first in pastel colors, then in dull grays and browns, but perplexing and intolerably dizzy the thing is, as never were the merry-go-rounds of childhood or adolescence; as never, surely, were the certain-coursed, dynamic roller-coasters of youth. For most men and women these thirty years are taken up with a gradual withdrawal from life.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Horse, Taken, Men

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2008). “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories”, p.369, Penguin

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• Adolescence isn't a period; it's a coma.

  Richard Armour

  Periods, Coma

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• The truth remains that, after adolescence has begun, "words, words, words," must constitute a large part, and an always larger part as life advances, of what the human being has to learn.

  William James

  Humans, Remains, Human Beings

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.73, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Woman's great strength lies in being late or absent. Presence immediately reveals the weak points of our beloved; when she is absent she become one of the sylph-like figures of our adolescence whom we endowed with perfection.

  Andre Maurois

  Women, Lying, Perfection

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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