Teenager Quotes - Page 5

• I'm not a big gore hound but monster gore is different to me than killing a teenager in any way that you can when another human-like person does it. I don't know how I rationalize that really but it seems different to me.

  Rick Baker

  Monsters, Doe, Different

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• I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock 'n' roll bands, country and jazz bands. I played in about any situation.

  Ronnie Milsap

  Country, Children, Rocks

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• Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us.

  Haim Ginott

  Self, Independence, Feels

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• Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.

  Dorothy Allison

  Two, Legs, Walking

  Dorothy Allison, Mae Miller Claxton (2012). “Conversations with Dorothy Allison”, p.119, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When you first get out of doing a show for a long time where you played a teenager, casting directors and producers all still look at you as being the character that you played for so long.

  Danielle Fishel

  Character, Long, Directors

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

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• 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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• 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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• It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents.

  James S. Coleman

  Eye, Data, Giving

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Father, Single Word

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

  Marie Lu

  Writing, Years

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• As a gymnast, you always wear spandex. Being a teenager wearing spandex? It was tough accepting how my body looked, especially if there was any weight gain.

  Alicia Sacramone

  Weight, Body, Gains

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• I have a nice smile, pretty lips, and big round cheeks. They help me look like a teenager.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Nice, Looks, Lips

  "Need to Meet: Gabourey Sidibe". Interview with Thelma Adams, www.marieclaire.com. July 22, 2010.

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• I was a wayward kid, a rambunctious and angry teenager, but I found acting as a fifteen-year-old.

  Tom Sizemore

  Kids, Years, Acting

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

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• Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off.

  Zoe Saldana

  Writing, Adults, Littles

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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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• 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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