Teenager Quotes - Page 39

• I just don't want to copy the current trends or do movies for teenagers. I want people to get more out of movies.

  Clint Eastwood

  People, Trends, Want

  "Gran Torino - Clint Eastwood interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• although it has been said that idle hands are the devil's workshop, when it comes to teenagers, both idle and active hands are the devil's workshop.

  Amy Sedaris

  Hands, Devil, Said

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• But the pop-up suburb has an incomplete feel to it like something that just wasn't right, wasn't quite real, almost like a movie set. When people raised families in that sterile environment, it produced directionless children who became directionless teenagers, then directionless adults. With no roots, no past to stand on, you got hollow kids.

  Anne Frasier

  Children, Real, Kids

  Anne Frasier (2012). “Hush”, p.21, Theresa Weir

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• I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of different ideas.

  Catherine Jinks

  Book, Writing, Kids

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• I loved movies as a teenager and saw as much American cinema as I could, but I hated the English films of the early 60s and had absolutely no point of identification with them.

  Stephen Rea

  Cinema, Saws, Film

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• I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.

  Laura Bell Bundy

  Country, Writing, Whole Life

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• I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.

  Tammy Blanchard

  Children, Home, Grew Up

  "Tammy Blanchard: 'Not uptight about anything'". Interview with Mark Kennedy, www.deseretnews.com. July 12, 2012.

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• In the years when teenagers really need to be connected to somebody, they aren't; especially in small towns where kids are bored and look for something to get them going.

  Dash Mihok

  Kids, Years, Bored

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

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• There is an inherent tolerance and kindness in the state school teenagers I know.

  Arabella Weir

  Kindness, School, Tolerance

  "I just want the best for my kids" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2008.

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• Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems like the one thing we can all agree on.

  Robin Wasserman

  Fiction, Matter, Argument

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• I read Nietzsche when I was a teenager and then I went back to reading him when I was in my thirties, and his voice spoke directly to me. Nietzsche is such a superb literary artist.

  John Banville

  Reading, Artist, Voice

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• Teenagers are a great audience and they are fearless about asking what they want to know.

  Sarah Dessen

  Fearless, Asking, Want

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• Surely that was why faith had been invented: to raise teenagers without dying. Although of course it was also why death was invented: to escape teenagers altogether.

  Lorrie Moore

  Dying, Raises, Courses

  Lorrie Moore (2014). “Bark: Stories”, p.142, Vintage

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• The media tends to portray the teenage world as one where drinking and sex is taken for granted. In fact, I think most teenagers don't drink, are unsure of themselves, and feel awkward around members of the opposite sex.

  Louis Sachar

  Sex, Teenage, Drinking

  "A Few Words From Louis Sachar". "Small Steps" Hardcover Edition, www.penguinrandomhouse.com. 2008.

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• Konosuke Matsushita was a visionary entrepreneur. He started working very young as a teenager, and he eventually created Panasonic to become a truly global company.

  Tadashi Yanai

  Entrepreneur, Visionaries, Young

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• The cliché I tried to avoid was I hated "teenage sidekicks." I always figured if I were a superhero, there's no way on God's earth that I'm gonna pal around with some teenager. So my publisher insisted I have a teenager in the series, because they always felt teenagers won't read the books unless there's a teenager in the story; which is nonsense.

  Stan Lee

  Teenage, Book, Superhero

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I get good vibes from people. There is a thread of DNA that runs from the days that I was a young teenager to these days. It feels good to go back there.

  Neil Diamond

  Running, Dna, People

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• Self-tragedy is always a great way to dramatize yourself - ask any teenager.

  David Lee Roth

  Self, Tragedy, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Teenagers are extremely funny, and extremely clever and intellectually curious. But they're also willing to ask questions about the meaning of life without disguising them around irony, and ask questions about what are our responsibilities to other people without having to couch it in irony.

  John Green

  Clever, Responsibility, People

  "Q&A: John Green & Nat Wolff on ‘Paper Towns’ Themes, Inside Jokes, Nicknames". Interview with Seth Kelley, variety.com. July 19, 2015.

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• Most books and movies that are handed to teenagers are filled with stereotypes.

  Nat Wolff

  Book, Stereotype, Filled

  Source: variety.com

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• I remember being a teenager and having a boyfriend - this guy I thought I was way better than, and completely out of his league. He was a year younger than me. And he broke up with me. It was so shocking, and I couldn't believe it.

  Jessica Chastain

  Believe, Years, League

  "Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy on 'Eleanor Rigby,' First Heartbreak, and Robin Williams". Interview with Marlow Stern, www.thedailybeast.com. September 2, 2014.

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• I love the complication of the kids in the characters' lives. I love that these two people are very capable in all these ways. They're so trained. They're kind of deadly. They're smart and vicious at times, but I love that they're undone by a teenager, like we all are. We're all incensed and undone by the ungratefulness of a child, and I love that it matters so greatly to them, in a way that it matters to every parent. Teenagers are going to do that no matter where you live or who you are.

  Keri Russell

  Children, Smart, Character

  Source: deadline.com

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• With teenagers, the emotions are higher and things are more dramatic. That doesn't mean adults don't also act like children in their own way.

  Sara Shepard

  Children, Mean, Adults

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I didn't go out on one date in high school. I played guitar and sang and wrote my own music and poetry and stuff when I was a teenager.

  Kathy Bates

  School, Guitar, Stuff

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Basically I got an insight into what it really was through Alcoholics Anonymous. One day the switchboard lit up and I saw where it was all going. I saw what alcohol could do to people and I saw that it wasn't a good thing anymore. Plus I wasn't a teenager anymore myself.

  Van Morrison

  People, Alcohol, One Day

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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