Teens Quotes - Page 13

• Teens like a lot of the same things adults do: smart people doing amazing things against awful odds.

  Kim Harrison

  Smart, Odds, People

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• We teach teens what we think they ought to know, and we never tell them what they want to know.

  Sue Johanson

  Thinking, Want, Teach

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• In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.

  Hari Kunzru

  Imagination, Fiction, Fantasy

  "When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock" by Hari Kunzru, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2011.

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• When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.

  Vanessa Mae

  Years, Pills, Albums

  "Vanessa-Mae on the 12 year bitter feud with her mother" by Tom Bryant, www.mirror.co.uk. June 18, 2011.

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• Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that.

  Graham Nelson

  Home, Writing, Adventure

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• I loved to write; in my late teens I had a 'zine. But it wasn't until I went back to school, later on in my 20s, that I actually saw that I had writing talent.

  Sonja Sohn

  Writing, School, Zines

  "Sonja Sohn ReWires Baltimore". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. March 15, 2012.

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• I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.

  Gaspard Ulliel

  Photographer

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• It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything.

  Julie Walters

  Thinking, Alcoholics, Happened

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• I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores.

  Zoe Lister-Jones

  Shopping, Stores, Thrift

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• For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.

  Craig McCracken

  Artist, Long, Information

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• Comics have a problem, and that is continuity - the obsession with placing the characters in an existing world, where every event is marked in canon. You're supposed to believe that these weepy star boys of now are the same gung-ho super teens fighting space monsters in the '60s, and they've only aged perhaps five years.

  John Hodgman

  Stars, Believe, Character

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To have a strong community of people who believe in your potential can make all the difference in the world. So many people have invested in me and I want to do the same for Chicago’s teens.

  Derrick Rose

  Strong, Believe, Differences

  "Nba Superstar Derrick Rose Donates $1 Million Dollars To After School Matters". www.nba.com. September 23, 2014.

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• I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me!

  Cy Coleman

  People, Concerts, Pianist

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• My father had to flee from what is today Pakistan when he was a child, and he became a manager at IBM, and any item of consumption he would acquire was a direct measurement of his success in life. But that same equation wasn't going to work for me - I was quite clear about that in my early teens.

  Tino Sehgal

  Children, Father, Pakistan

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• Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.

  Scott Putesky

  Growing Up, School, Kids

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• Love involves more than just feelings. It is also a way of behaving. When Sandy said, "My parents don't know how to love me," she was saying that they don't know how to behave in loving ways. If you were to ask Sandy's parents, or almost any other toxic parents, if they love their children, most of them would answer emphatically that they do. Yet, sadly, most of their children have always felt unloved. What toxic parents call "love" rarely translates into nourishing, comforting behavior.

  Susan Forward

  Children, Healing, Parent

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• I think, in my life and in my experience, teens have stress, and everybody's stress is unique, and everybody's frame of reference is different

  Chris Klein

  Stress, Unique, Thinking

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• It wasn't that expectations changed. But [teens] went from general expectations of success to having no idea of the right thing to do. In the '60s there was a strong prejudice against careerism. We were self-indulgent and self-destructive.

  Michael Medved

  Strong, Self, Ideas

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• Let God be the air in which your heart breathes at ease.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Letting Go, Healing, Heart

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• To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and the protagonists are teens. The difference is in the readers.

  Charles de Lint

  Book, Writing, Differences

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• I suppose my interest in looking for life elsewhere in the universe really dates back to my teens. What teenager doesn't look up at the sky at night and think am I alone in the universe? Well most people get over it, but I never did and though I made a career more in physics and cosmology than astrobiology I've always had a soft spot for the subject of life because it does seem so mysterious.

  Paul Davies

  Teenager, Night, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• At my high school graduation, I graduated from home school, so it was pregnant teens and gang members. But, when I got on stage, there were kids in the background who all screamed, "Marry me!," very loud.

  Portia de Rossi

  Home, School, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• When I was young, Stephen Hawking wasn't the world's most famous physicist. The fame didn't arrive until the publication of "A Brief History of Time," by which time I was in my late teens. When I was a child, he was well known among physicists, but they are a fairly select, serious bunch, not much given to celebrity idolizing.

  Stephen Hawking

  Children, World, Serious

  "Q & A: Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy". Today Interview, www.nbcnews.com. November 1, 2007.

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• Well, my father Kingsley Amis was a writer and it seemed natural to start writing in my late teens. I think it was good that I began when I was young and bold and foolish, otherwise I'd have become too self-conscious and aware of the weight of not having written anything yet.

  Martin Amis

  Father, Writing, Thinking

  "Martin Amis: I wasn’t trying to impress my father". Interview with Jane Graham, www.salon.com. July 24, 2013.

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• What defines someone's music taste is their teens and early 20s. It's that combination of your sexual awakening and the music of the time, it fixes you forever.

  Ken Livingstone

  Forever, Awakening, Taste

  "Ken Livingstone Interviewed: Boris, The Other Boris, Music, Politics & London". Interview with Luke Turner, thequietus.com. September 23, 2010.

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