Teenager Quotes - Page 31

• [ Adult novels] was the world of grownups. There was nothing about teenagers.

  Judy Blume

  Adults, World, Novel

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• My dad's a prominent theatre director in Toronto, so I grew up in that world, directing and producing theater since I was a teenager. I always loved movies but they seemed too complicated until I got a job as an assistant on a movie-of-the-week and the technical process became demystified, like peeking behind a magician's curtain. Not long after that I switched to movies and never looked back.

  Ed Gass-Donnelly

  Jobs, Dad, Long

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• [My kids] complained about Secret Service as they became teenagers, and Secret Service has done the very best job they could accommodating them, so it hasn't restricted any of their activities.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Kids, Best Job

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• As you might imagine, if you're a teenager having a couple of people with microphones and guns always following you around, that could grate on them. But you know, they've handled it with grace and I give Michelle [Obama] most of the credit for how well they've done, but I also just think they are graceful, good young, young women.

  Barack Obama

  Couple, Thinking, Gun

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Sometimes I would go on Sundays and play with Doc Cheatham. I was also playing in a band of teenagers led by Don Sickler called Young Sounds, and The McDonald's Big Band led by Rich De Rosa and Justin Di Cioccio. All those guys were great educators and musicians and taught me a lot! Simultaneous to all this, another one of my musical fathers came into my life, Eddie Locke.

  Jon Gordon

  Father, Sunday, Play

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• Joe Henderson, who I maybe, to me, if I had to pick one improviser in my life that I saw live that blew my mind most, especially as a teenager.

  Jon Gordon

  Mind, Saws, Picks

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• I got to talk to Mel Lewis a lot as a teenager. I think that's what really impacted me the most around that time.

  Jon Gordon

  Thinking, Talk To Me

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• There were a lot of different things [in The Women's Room ]. I don't really want to summarize it in this way. It's about a woman's awakening, a woman who came of age in the '50s and is a teenager - actually, she's a little bit older - in the '60s and part of the women's movement and how she ends up there.

  June Diane Raphael

  Different, Movement, Want

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• I'm from a singing family, but they're not professional singers, only gospel - my grandfather was a minister. I started to sing the music that was out then because my mother used to play it all the time. It was the end of the '50s, the beginning of the '60s. There was Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers, Etta James... We used to sit outside on the stoop and sing. We even used to put our radios and record players outside.

  Diana Ross

  Mother, Player, Singing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The actor's life, but also the Australian's life. We're wanderers. We like to walk about - we're curious people. I have felt that since I was a teenager.

  Rose Byrne

  People, Curious

  Source: people.com

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• I was happy that I finally could play a mature woman, because I started working when I was a teenager and was always playing characters according to my age.

  Penelope Cruz

  Character, Age, Mature

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Right now one in three teenagers meets the medical criteria for addiction, which is scary. I'm so driven because when I walked into rehab, I was like, "Am I still drunk? Did the guys give me the wrong address? Am I at a summer camp?" And it kills them. Deaths attributed to drugs and alcohol have overtaken all other emergency-room deaths.

  Kristen Johnston

  Summer, Drunk, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Teenagers are always sneaking around in drawers where they shouldn't go and reading things they shouldn't be reading. And that's an attempt to try, I think, to penetrate, that's how I found out as a teenager what was going on, was by sneaking into drawers and reading letters that I had no business reading.

  David Small

  Reading, Thinking, Trying

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think we all feel incredibly fortunate and grateful that we're still around. We're one of the last punk-rock bands standing. And, to be honest, if we weren't getting paid well, and there weren't these teenagers coming to see it and saying, "... this is good, these guys play hard," we probably wouldn't do it.

  John Doe

  Grateful, Thinking, Guy

  "Punk-rocker growing older and happier". Interview with Dan DeLuca, www.philly.com. September 18, 2011.

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• As a teenager and into my early twenties I lived in a geodesic dome on a mountain. No running water, no phone, real rustic. I loved it. One night, there by myself, I was terrified. I was up in the loft trying to sleep but I couldn't because I was so scared to be that alone. I knew I'd never lose my fear if I didn't address it so I went outside in my undies and waited for the darkness to come and kill me. But it didn't. It was beautiful and calm and even kind. I went back to bed eventually.

  Samantha Hunt

  Beautiful, Running, Real

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We are like a rider on top of a gigantic elephant. We can steer the elephant, and if he's not busy, he'll go where we want, but if he has other desires, he'll often go where he wants. How can one control the elephant? In part, this comes with maturity. In part, this comes with the development of your frontal cortex, so the frontal areas of the brain are especially involved in self-control, in suppressing your initial instinct to act. This is why teenagers are so impulsive. So it's terrible to allow the death penalty for teenagers, because they really don't have working brains yet.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Maturity, Brain, Desire

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Most of the theater I've done in the past was when I was a kid or a teenager so it feels like being a kid again. I'm happier than I've ever been. You really get to go to work every day and play, and try different things. I don't know, I've never felt so lucky to do this job. So I hope to do a lot more theater.

  Alexis Bledel

  Kids, Past, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think most people get hit by the music first and you can be singing along and realize a song has this melancholy feel. As Swedes, I think we see a beauty in melancholy. You're heartbroken, you're looking out the window and you feel really at ease in the pain. I have so many memories as a teenager with music, sad music, but I was just so into it.

  Yukimi Nagano

  Heartbroken, Song, Pain

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Nirvana really touched me as a teenager and started making me pay attention to music as a participatory thing that I could do. Music that you want to throw your body into it - that's a feeling that I'm not quite satisfied with having made yet.

  Phil Elvrum

  Feelings, Attention, Pay Attention

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• At first I was thinking of it as superheroes who happened to be teenagers. Then I realized, no, I'm writing about teenagers who happen to be superheroes. Thinking like that changed everything for me. I started approaching the stories through the characters' core emotions, rather than leading with the superpowers.

  Lisa Yee

  Writing, Thinking, Superhero

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I was a teenager when General Zia took power in the Pakistan; I was in my twenties when I went there during the late 1980s and I saw then not only the novel punishments that he was introducing - because they were novel, and this is again something that's very important to understand, it's only in the last thirty, forty years, since 1979 in fact, that these penalties have been revived anywhere in the world apart from Saudi Arabia.

  Sadakat Kadri

  Important, World, Introducing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think teenagers just don't have the persistence to pretend to like something they don't anymore. I used to do that - make myself like stuff that didn't immediately appeal to me. When you're 17 and checking out John Cage records from the library. It's not like it's got the hooks of a Ramones record, or a Beach Boys record. But at the same time, you're like, I know there's something in here that I'm supposed to understand. And then eventually you find it.

  Bradford Cox

  Beach, Boys, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I haven't got many tattoos, but the two that are most important to me are music tattoos. I have a black heart with a lightning bolt down the middle. And the black heart was for Manson and the lightning bolt down the middle was for David Bowie. I have black diamond with circles that keep swirling and swirling, and it's surrounded by sort of crazy diamonds because Pink Floyd's "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" really inspired me, and everybody's called me Crazy Diamond since I was a teenager, so it was always important to me.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Tattoo, Crazy, Heart

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• I started singing when I was a teenager. I always wanted to write songs; I just didn't understand how someone could sing without writing their own songs.

  Olivia Merilahti

  Song, Writing, Singing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I genuinely am sort of an emotionally stunted man-child, so if I just write to the top of my intelligence, it sounds like a teenager. I like being around teenagers. It's good for drama; they feel everything much more intensely than adults do, their lives are much more interesting than ours. They're mutants. They have these weird bodies that are rebelling against them and changing every day. Teenagers always equal good drama.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Drama, Writing, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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