Teenager Quotes - Page 13

• Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as likely to be The Beatles or Aphex Twin as it is to be Verdi or Ravel. They'd be strange teenagers if they didn't. But cross-pollinating happens too - Aphex Twin did more interesting things with electronic music than most trained composers, who seemed to approach samplers with undue caution and reverence in those early days.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Interesting, Important, Strange

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think that what I knew as a teenager, and what I rediscovered in my mid-forties, was - aside from the primacy of sexual desire and how strongly it rules me - this idea that we are lucky to feel something. Even if that something is sadness.

  Claire Dederer

  Sadness, Thinking, Desire

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I was born on Halloween night, 2:00 am on November 1st, but still Halloween night in the USA. I think it was a destiny for me to work quite a bit in the horror genre. I love the horror genre. Since I was a teenager, my friends and I used to go to a video store and rent many horror movies that we would watch over the weekend and then scare each other at school. I've been fascinated with the horror genre all my life.

  Massimo Dobrovic

  Halloween, School, Weekend

  Source: dailydead.com

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• The '80s just had this sense of outrageous fun coupled with great stories and characters. Then there's the practical effects and buckets of gore in movies. These are movies that, for the most part, still stand up to this day. But I guess the real reason for my love and obsession with this period is these were my first horror movies. I was a teenager during the '80s and I think spending that part of your life in that particular time really has an impact on you for the rest of your life.

  Neil Marshall

  Fun, Real, Character

  Source: dailydead.com

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• It's one of the reasons why Spider-Man: Homecoming is so exciting. Because it's a new genre for us, a new character, the first time that Spider-Man is in our cinematic universe and you can see what he was meant to be in the comics. He's such a young teenager in comparison to these other heroes. But I think, because we're film fans who go and see everything, it's much more natural that you're inspired by other work. And then of course that influences your work, and the way you make films.

  Kevin Feige

  Hero, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• If we recover something like a functioning, well-informed democratic polity - if it hasn't been wrecked for good by the people who are getting in now, if millennials and teenagers can come to maturity in a world where we hold free and fair elections and agree on what fact is - Lin-Manuel Miranda is going to have a lot to do with that.

  Stephen Burt

  Maturity, People, World

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Magnus, standing by the door, snapped his fingers impatiently. "Move it along, teenagers. The only person who gets to canoodle in my bedroom is my magnificent self." "Canoodle?" repeated Clary, never having heard the word before. "Magnificent?" repeated Jace, who was just being nasty. Magnus growled. The growl sounded like "Get out.

  Cassandra Clare

  Moving, Doors, Self

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.

  Nora Ephron

  Dog, Children, Kids

  "Remembering Nora Ephron". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 27, 2012.

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• I know hate is a strong word and everything, but its okay: we're teenagers.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Strong, Hate, Okay

  Cecily von Ziegesar (2008). “Gossip Girl 2: You Know You Love Me”, p.111, A&C Black

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• Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve.

  Frank McCourt

  Ignorance, Thinking, Nerves

  Frank McCourt (2005). “Teacher Man: A Memoir”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• And although I broke a lot of laws as a teenager, I straightened out immediately upon turning eighteen, when I realized the state had a legal right to execute me.

  George Carlin

  Law, Broke, States

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• Over the summer we chatted one night while Angie stripped a bed, changed wet sheets, comforted and repajamaed a toddler, and chased down a car of speeding teenagers while shaking a brick at them, never once interrupting the conversation or setting down her margarita. The only reason this woman isn't president of General Motors is because she's chosen not to be.

  Jen Lancaster

  Summer, Night, Car

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• Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.

  Homer

  Inspirational, Struggle, Men

  Homer (2013). “The Iliad: An Epic Poem About the Trojan War, the Ten-Year Siege of the City of Troy (Ilium) by a Coalition of Greek States - Battles and Events During the Weeks of a Quarrel Between King Agamemnon and the Warrior Achilles (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.316, Lulu Press, Inc

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• i've never asked him but i'm sure he has a fairly stringent policy about random teenagers lurking in his strubbery

  Cassandra Clare

  Policy, Lurking

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The bridge is made of wood. As you cross, it burns behind you

  Gail Carson Levine

  Lying, Opposites, Bridges

  Gail Carson Levine (2013). “Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth. We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur. But that's the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to a time sharing terminal in 1968. If a million teenagers had been given the same opportunity, how many more Microsofts would we have today?

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Success, Spring, Opportunity

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• It doesn`t matter if you have a valentine or not - just love yourself and be your own.

  Kim Kardashian

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• On the drive we talked easily, but we did make a small detour. After pulling into a rest stop, we made out like teenagers.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Detours, Made, Pulling

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• As teenagers, Marcus had been the muscle and Jake the brains. Marcus had beat up the kids who'd made fun of skinny Jake; Jake had convinced teachers not to punish him. Since then, Marcus had grown a brain (kind of) and Jake had developed muscles. But habits die hard.

  Gena Showalter

  Teacher, Fun, Kids

  Gena Showalter (2012). “Catch a Mate”, p.238, Harlequin

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• It comes with being sixteen," Mom said. "You teenagers, you go into a cocoon when you turn fifteen and don't come out for years." "So they become butterflies when they finally come out?" my little sister Christina asked. "No," Mom said. "They're still caterpillars, only now they're big fat caterpillars that smell.

  Neal Shusterman

  Mom, Butterfly, Years

  Neal Shusterman (2006). “The Schwa was here”

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• I'm so not interesting in having to try and make something out of foil." What, you didn't like the poncho with wraparound leggings?" It was beyond hideou- wait a minute. You watch that show?" My mom loves it." But your suppose to be sulking in the basement getting ready to light fires." What can I say? I'm a failure as a teenager. I watch TV with my mom.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Mom, Fire, Light

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• What would it mean in practice to eliminate all the 'negative people' from one's life [as demanded by motivational speaker J.P. Maroney]? It might be a good idea to separate from a chronically carping spouse, but it is not so easy to abandon the whiny toddler, the colicky infant, or the sullen teenager.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Mean, Practice, Ideas

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• How do you know all this? Jeez, Tory, you’re a kid. Act like it. (Geary) (Tory reached out and punched her on the arm.) Ow! What was that for? (Geary) Unexpected and irrational emotional outbursts. Isn’t that what teenagers are supposed to do? Oh, and sulk. A lot. (Tory)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Kids, Emotional, Arms

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• I think they’re having trouble adjusting to the emotions they have outside of their dreams. At any rate, they keep acting like demented teenagers from a porno version of a John Hughes film. (Asmodeus)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dream, Thinking, Acting

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dream Warrior”, p.77, Macmillan

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• ...Listen to your own thoughts and feelings very carefully, be aware of your observations, and learn to value them. When you're a teenager—and even when you're older—lots of people will try to tell you what to think and feel. Try to stand still inside all of that and hear your own voice. It's yours and only yours, it's unique and worth of your attention, and if you cultivate it properly, it might just make you a writer.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Unique, Thinking, Voice

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