Teenager Quotes - Page 30

• In a perfect world I think we would microdose with LSD instead of giving teenagers Adderall. But I'd like to see it studied first.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Thinking, Giving, Perfect

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• While being tossed around the world from place to place as a teenager, I wasn't really tethered to any place or anyone.

  Chelsea Manning

  World, Around The World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A few years later, when I was still going to these meetings, I was also "second-acting" every Broadway show [walking in with the crowd after intermission]. I snuck in to see Grease with John Travolta in kind of a secondary part and Adrienne Barbeau playing Rizzo, into Pippin, hung out with Ben Vereen and Bob Fosse. It was an amazing time for a teenager.

  David Copperfield

  Years, Grease, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The music you love when you're a teenager is always going to be the most important to you.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Important

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Toddlers are so powerful and so egocentric and teenagers are also so powerful, so egocentric.

  Laura Huxley

  Powerful, Toddler, Egocentric

  Source: www.whitelotus.org

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• Teenagers have to be sustained; they have to be given something to live for and something that involves them without having to make a child, a human being.

  Laura Huxley

  Children, Given, Humans

  Source: www.whitelotus.org

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• My parents passed away when I was a teenager, so I had to learn different survival techniques, I think, in comedy. You know, using comedy as a pressure release, as a release valve in life really kept my sanity.

  Jeff Ross

  Thinking, Parent, Survival

  Source: www.npr.org

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• At 15 [my father] revolted against his father like any teenager, and said, "I'm out of here! What are you doing to me?" He thought he wouldn't be involved in that kind of stuff for the rest of his life. He just wanted to make money. He was one of those people who took over the family responsibility. His own father was pretty irresponsible with money and borrowed from people all the time.

  Paul Laffoley

  Father, Responsibility, People

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• I think there's some kids that need to go from being a child to being a grown-up. You get out in the tech communities, the parents just apprentice their kid into the industry and they just skip being a teenager.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.kshb.com

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• I wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it.

  John Darnielle

  Stories, Short Story

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When I was a teenager and all these shows were on I was in that business, so I knew a lot of people in the theaters and I saw many of the great shows many times. I would go in and stand in the back - they would let me in, they knew me. I saw Fiddler on the Roof, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Gypsy, and Funny Girl many times just standing in the back.

  Christopher Walken

  Girl, Funny Things, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Teenagers falling off skateboards - funny. Nut shots - funny. Breaking wind - funny. The world cannot change those. Those three things are columns upon which humor is built.

  John Oliver

  Fall, Wind, Nuts

  "John Oliver On Facts, Donald Trump And The Supreme Court For Dogs". Interview with Steve Inskeep, ijpr.org. February 10, 2017.

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• I struggle with depression and anxiety, and I have since I was a teenager. I spent a good chunk of time being very ashamed of that. Now I feel committed to talking about it and trying to normalize it as much as I can.

  Morgan Parker

  Struggle, Talking, Anxiety

  "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Interview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.

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• The song [The White Trash Song] was not a put down of [ my country cousins ], but a celebration. I wrote that early on, as a teenager.

  Steve Young

  Country, Song, Cousin

  Source: www.outlawmagazine.com

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• I wrote as a teenager, and once I started acting, you know, you're learning lines, you're doing other people's words, it takes up a lot of time. Especially if you're dedicated to what you're doing, you're trying to do a decent job at it. But I would have said to myself, "Write more, please."

  John Larroquette

  Jobs, Writing, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Having a son with a disability helps makes Walter White a more sympathetic character. There's no story line that shows Walt Jr. going through the things that you go through as a teenager with a disability. It's always his relationship to other characters. That was my issue with it.

  Zach Anner

  Character, Son, White

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• Once I became an adult and started to pursue writing as a professional career, I realized my main characters were always young people. My stories naturally center around children and teenagers. I think it's because I have worked with youth for about twelve years. The pains and joys of adolescents are moments I witness on a daily basis, so their stories are always with me as I write.

  Renee Watson

  Children, Pain, Writing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• If an American teenager were to come to Lahore, they'd have wildly different experiences depending on whom they met. They could party and get drunk and smoke hashish with some, while others would say, "Let's get some religious instruction."

  Mohsin Hamid

  Religious, Party, Different Experiences

  "Love in the Time of Mass Migration". Interview With Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. March 4, 2017.

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• It would be great if teenagers could make movies. It's sad how some writers think they can write about stuff they don't understand.

  Winona Ryder

  Writing, Thinking, Would Be

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the teen years, we often confuse self-image with self-esteem. Teenagers are very influenced by the image others have of them. All sorts of complexes come from this.

  Deepak Chopra

  Self Esteem, Years, Complexes

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• What we do wrong with teenagers is we talk down to you instead of treating you as equals. Adults complain that you're not good listeners but really, adults are not listening to what you're trying to tell us. We're always trying to give you advice. We should treat you with lots of respect and dignity and groom you to be future leaders.

  Deepak Chopra

  Always Trying, Giving, Leader

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• I just figured it out when I was approaching the age where teenagers forced to make major life decisions and I just went with my heart, which is that I love acting, and was lucky enough to kind of pursue that and for it to work out so far.

  Nell Hudson

  Heart, Work Out, Decision

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• I learn to be kind of balanced, because when I was a teenager and in my early 20s, I would get very involved with political issues and stuff like that. And now, I still have an opinion on everything, but I try to balance staying informed and having a positive attitude.

  Bianca Balti

  Attitude, Issues, Political

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I realized I was gay when I was a teenager and I couldn't imagine what it meant to be a gay adult. I just did the next thing that seemed right, and that led me from activism to media to the kind of media I'm in now. But I like where I've ended up.

  Rachel Maddow

  Gay, Media, Adults

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• I always was interested in prose. As a teenager, I published short stories. And I always wanted to write the long short story, I wanted to write a novel. Now that I have attained, shall I say, a respectable age, and have had experiences, I feel much more interested in prose, in the novel. I feel that in a novel, for example, you can get in toothbrushes and all the paraphernalia that one finds in dally life, and I find this more difficult in poetry.

  Sylvia Plath

  Writing, Long, Example

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

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