Adolescence Quotes - Page 13

• I was always storytelling, since I was a child. I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and brother. This is something I did through my adolescence and even through my twenties.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Brother, Children, Years

  Interview with Paul Thomas Anderson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2009.

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• From the writing stage, I had envisioned a film that would be bright and light, even if the movie addresses adolescent unrest and self-destructive behavior. Talking about adolescence, I wanted to make a very musical film that was also a love story with a sensorial, sensual dimension and which had a strong emotional impact.

  Alante Kavaite

  Strong, Writing, Emotional

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I wanted to make a body of work that looked at what it felt like to be a boy going through adolescence.

  Polixeni Papapetrou

  Boys, Body, Wanted

  "Polixeni Papapetrou: The Ghillies" by Evelyne Politanoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2013.

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• I love '80s happy music. I love Cyndi Lauper and Madonna, and the idea of making music that's about people celebrating fun. I spent my late adolescence in New York and I used to go to a lot of gay clubs. The music there was always just about love and connection and celebrating life. I think, for people going through something really hard, to go to a place where you can let loose and listen to music as a distraction, that's about a better place, a better way of life - that's where all the attraction lies.

  Halsey

  Fun, Lying, Gay

  "Halsey: I lost a sense of who I was". Interview with Mark Savage, www.bbc.com. June 27, 2017.

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• God's way of making separation with children easier was to invent adolescence.

  Mark Patinkin

  Children, Way, Separation

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• Adolescence is a relatively recent thing in human history -- a period of years between the constraints of childhood and the responsibilities of adulthood. This irresponsible period of adolescence is artificially extended by long years of education, much of it wasted on frivolities. Tenure extends adolescence even further for teachers and professors.

  Thomas Sowell

  Teacher, Responsibility, Years

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• It is widely known that the effects of childhood poverty follow children through adolescence and into adulthood.

  Chris Van Hollen

  Children, Childhood, Poverty

  "Breaking the Cycle of Childhood Poverty" by Rep. Chris Van Hollen, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 3, 2012.

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• With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis or stress, but was instead an orderly developing of a set of slowly maturing interests and activities.

  Margaret Mead

  Stress, Next, Mature

  Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”

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• the teenage zone: the stage when an adolescent's brain synapses quit firing while the rest of their body races toward adulthood.

  Becky Freeman

  Teenage, Race, Brain

  Becky Freeman (1998). “The Best of Becky Freeman”, Inspirational Press

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• I had low blood sugar, a chemical imbalance, plus the normal nervous breakdown everyone goes through from adolescence to adulthood.

  Mel Brooks

  Blood, Sugar, Imbalance

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• Death during adolescence feels unfair. We're young. We're invincible. Death is supposed to come with old age. When death breaks into our lives and steals our innocence, its finality leaves us unnaturally older. There are too many elderly young people.

  Sara Shandler

  Elderly, People, Age

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• Spooky things happen in houses densely occupied by adolescent boys. When I checked out a four-inch dent in the living room ceilingone afternoon, even the kid still holding the baseball bat looked genuinely baffled about how he possibly could have done it.

  Mary Blakely

  Baseball, Kids, Boys

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• Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect.

  Arthur Koestler

  Emotional, Retrospect, Kind

  Arthur Koestler (1952). “Arrow in the blue: an autobiography”

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• The only lie I really remember from my adolescence was when I was in sixth grade and I was dropped off with a couple of friends at the movie theater to go see a movie, I can't remember which one it was, and we went to go see this movie instead that was rated R. That was sort of a defining moment, that was probably the first time I had ever lied to my parents about something.

  Dan Byrd

  Couple, Lying, Parent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The first idea of Young and Beautiful was to have a young boy and to explore the sexuality of boys. But, I realized, with a boy doing prostitution, of course it has to deal with homosexuality. And I had a feeling it was too much for the film, you know, sexuality, prostitution, adolescence ... there were too many films for one film.

  Francois Ozon

  Beautiful, Boys, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To me Donnie Darko was about adolescence. And about how, as soon as you start to grow up and you sort of move out into the world, you realize everything is so trippy. That anything can be anything.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Growing Up, Moving, World

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: 'Way Beyond His Years as a Human'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.

  Terence McKenna

  Space, Phases, Psychedelic

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• Being Jewish, you didn't get into a sorority. So I really was much more outgoing and gregarious. I really didn't want to spend an Emily Dickinson adolescence reading poetry on gravestones, which I did.

  Betty Friedan

  Reading, Sorority, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I can remember in my adolescence feeling that many of the things that were hurtful and hypocritical in society were things related to sex. They included the kind of censorship laws that existed in the movies and books when I was young.

  Hugh Hefner

  Book, Feelings, Hurtful

  "Los Angeles Times Interview: Hugh Hefner: in the Shadow of Aids, Examining What's Left of the Sexual Revolution". articles.latimes.com. July 31, 1994.

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• Adolescence was invented in the 19th century to enable middle-class families to keep their children out of sweatshops. But it has degenerated into a process of enforced boredom and age segregation that has produced one of the most destructive social arrangements in human history: consigning 13-year-old males to learning from 15-year-old males.

  Newt Gingrich

  Children, Years, Class

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• Life after 50 or 60 is itself another country, as different as adolescence is from childhood, or as adulthood is from adolescence - and just as adventurous.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Childhood, Different

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• No one can threaten poetry. It's always been there, always will be. Humans need it to live: it has sustaining powers. How could we (anyone) get through adolescence without some form of song? Song is only a version of lyric poetry that is carried more by melody than by internal coherence and unity. but lyric and song - they are the same.

  Gregory Orr

  Song, Lyric Poetry, Unity

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence

  Anthony Daniels

  Childhood, Modern, Britain

  "Our Culture, What’s Left Of It". Frontpage Magazine interview, archive.frontpagemag.com. August 31, 2005.

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• Adolescence is that time in your life when you discover your ability to be depressed.

  David Gerrold

  Over You, Ability

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• I remember realizing, when I did Little Women [1994], that that was the only time girls that age were being written about. It was always boys - from David Copperfield to Lord of the Flies to Holden Caulfield. There were never young women going through adolescence or teen years; there were only little girls.

  Winona Ryder

  Girl, Boys, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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