Teenage Quotes - Page 13

• My parents were pretty liberal, but they were still parents. I definitely had my teenage rebellion.

  Lauren Oliver

  Parent, Rebellion, Stills

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• To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage Weltscbmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Addiction, Drug, Adults

  "Republican Party Reptile". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1987.

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• I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.

  Paula Cole

  Song, Memories, Childhood

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• When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.

  Aidan Chambers

  Experiencing Everything, Years, Stories

  "Shock tactics" by Alison Brace, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2000.

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• I actually got to write with one of my musical heroes, a guy named Raine Maida from Our Lady Peace. I got to sit down and write some songs with him, and that was pretty heavy. I listened to Our Lady Peace growing up. It got me through the teenage angst.

  David Cook

  Song, Growing Up, Hero

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• Teenage girls read in packs. It's true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a small town in northeast Oklahoma.

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Growing Up, Oklahoma

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• Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don't remember the exact day or year, but I remember that reading S.E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders' sparked my interest in writing.

  Ally Carter

  Reading, Writing, Years

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• Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Girl, Boys, Psychological

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• In many respects a teenage girl's home is more important to her than at any time since she was a small child. She also needs emotional support and protection from the most corrosive cultural forces that seek to exploit her when she is least able to resist.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Girl, Children, Home

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• The Sixties were different in an isolated place. We got two television channels if the wind was blowing in the right direction. The radio stations went off at sundown. Then you picked up Chicago and heard the teenage music you really yearned for.

  Charles Frazier

  Wind, Two, Chicago

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• The most famous person in my phone is Lindsay Lohan. We starred in 'Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen' together in 2004 and we've stayed in touch.

  Adam Garcia

  Queens, Drama, Phones

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• As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages.

  Ann Brashares

  Girl, Writing, Ideas

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• I've spent a lot of my teenage years working on sets. I've missed out on more than just playing rugby, but I think I've managed to keep my feet on the ground and keep my friends around me.

  Douglas Booth

  Thinking, Years, Feet

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• I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out 'The Who,' which was my absolute favorite band.

  Jennifer Egan

  Rocks, Years, Squad

  "Author Jennifer Egan: Making Her Own Rules". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. March 25, 2011.

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• I was raised with adults. I skipped knowing how to interact as a normal teenage person.

  Alice Englert

  Knowing, Adults, Normal

  "Alice Englert Talks BEAUTIFUL CREATURES, Getting the Southern Accent Right, and TWILIGHT Comparisons". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 14, 2013.

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• Madman drummers, bummers, Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat. In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Summer, Poetry, Pumps

  Song: Blinded by the Light

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• Anybody who has a problem with 'Skins' obviously doesn't understand teenage life.

  Nicholas Hoult

  Skins, Teenage Life, Problem

  "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2007.

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• If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.

  Rachel Johnson

  Years, Parent, Ifs

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• I could take this home, Marilyn. This is something teenage boys might find of interest.

  Dan Quayle

  Home, Boys, Politics

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• Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging.

  Diane Lane

  Girl, Thinking, Use

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• The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.

  Mae Whitman

  Memories, Kids, Turtles

  "Mae Whitman on TMNT, blending into Arrested Development, and acting with Coach Taylor". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2013.

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• This dazzling, unput-downable debut novel proves beyond a doubt that Dan Wells has the gift. His teenage protagonist is as chilling as he is endearing. More John Wayne Cleaver, please.

  F. Paul Wilson

  Doubt, Chill, Cleaver

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• What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.

  David Levithan

  Girl, White, Epidemics

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• When you're in love it's beautiful. When you're not it's just dirty filthy sex. Loveless sex has no true spiritual meaning deep inside your soul. But love makes everything totally cool. Love is God's special gift to horny teenage girls and boys. It makes them feel less guilty.

  Christopher Pike

  Beautiful, Girl, Spiritual

  Christopher Pike (1997). “Execution of Innocence”, Simon Pulse

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• In my teenage years I was put off the idea of a career in flying, because I'd convinced myself that you had to be a boffin with degrees in maths and physics, which were my weakest subjects.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Math, Years, Careers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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