Teenager Quotes - Page 8

• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Littles, Social, Exciting

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

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• Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets.

  Naomi Watts

  Mother, Thinking, Play

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

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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

  Thinking, People, Perfect

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

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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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• Little kids grow up discovering the world that's shown to them and then when you become a teenager, it kind of shrinks a little bit. I think when you get past that point, one of the important things is that you see there is more to the world than yourself.

  Kenneth Lonergan

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

  "Interview: Kenneth Lonergan on looking past your own horizon and the ‘miracle’ of Team ‘Margaret’". Interview with Kristropher Tapley, uproxx.com. January 12, 2012.

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• The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled in the way that he sees fit, he, in revolt, storms out of the house in denial of the Word of God and in scrutiny of a great deal of those who stand by the Word of God. The epithet 'Heavenly Father' is a grand reflection, a relation to that of human nature.

  Criss Jami

  Atheist, Father, Reflection

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.78, Criss Jami

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• I definitely went through a period when I was a teenager when every girl was 'The One' and every break-up was the 'Worst Thing That Had Ever Happened.'

  Edgar Wright

  Girl, Break, Periods

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

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• I was a very independent teenager.

  Melanie Lynskey

  Independent

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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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• 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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• So that’s what we want is a secure and sovereign nation and, you know, I don’t know that all of you are Latino. Some of you look a little more Asian to me. I don’t know that. What we know, what we know about ourselves is that we are a melting pot in this country. My grandchildren are evidence of that. I’m evidence of that. I’ve been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly.

  Sharron Angle

  Country, Grandchildren, Asian

  "Angle to Hispanic children: “Some of you look a little more Asian to me”". lasvegassun.com. October 18, 2010.

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• A lot of the problems teenagers go through, it's better for them to go through them on their own. If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.

  Ben Savage

  Problem, Crutches, Ifs

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• Let your child be the teenager he or she wants to be, not the adolescent you were or wish you had been.

  Laurence Steinberg

  Children, Father, Wish

  Laurence Steinberg (2011). “You and Your Adolescent, New and Revised edition: The Essential Guide for Ages 10-25”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• It's often been said, "Violence never solved anything." The simple truth is that when you are slammed up against the wall and the knife is at your throat, when a circle of teenagers is kicking you as you curl into a ball on the sidewalk, or when the man walks into your office building or school with a pair of guns and starts shooting, only violence, or the reasonable threat of violence, is going to save your life. In the extreme moment, only force can stop force.

  Rory Miller

  Wall, School, Simple

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• Every teenager feels a wanting, a desire for something more, to be heard, to be seen.

  Brad Falchuk

  Desire, Heard, Feels

  "We're All Gleeks - 10 Questions for Glee Co-Creator Brad Falchuk". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. December 7, 2009.

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• I also remember when I watched Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer [1990] at, like, age 15. That scared the crap out of me. Because it didn't operate inside the usual conventions of the horror genre in the way that I could accept. I can accept horny teenager counselors being murdered at camp. But I couldn't accept the derangement of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, which was that anyone could be murdered at any moment - whole families, with no build-up music and no meaning. It terrified me.

  Christopher Bollen

  Horror Genre, Horny, Serial Killer

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've been all different shapes and sizes in my lifetime. I started wearing shapewear as a teenager after I did 'Australian Idol.' I had a little tummy, and I was always really quite conscious of that.

  Ricki-Lee Coulter

  Idols, Different, Shapes

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• It was important to me that the book didn't comment on being a teenager, but felt instead like a story told by a teenager.

  David Crabb

  Book, Important, Stories

  "'Morrissey's hair, bongs made of apples, MTV's 120 Minutes': Inside this month's hottest new books". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.salon.com. May 20, 2015.

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• Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Sports, Golf

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• I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life Lesson, Character

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.67, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

  James Dobson

  Children, Real, Gun

  James C. Dobson (1997). “Solid Answers: America's Foremost Family Counselor Responds to Tough Questions Facing Today's Families”, Tyndale House Pub

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