Teens Quotes - Page 10

• In my teens, I was never part of the cool crowd.

  Jennifer Garner

  Crowds

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• I love the Beatles. I haven't named any kids after them but I still really love them. They were the first group that I was ever properly aware of. In my early teens I would sometimes stay in and listen to the radio all day in the hope that I would catch a song by them that I'd never heard before and be able to tape it on my radio-cassette player.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Song, Kids, Player

  "The John Lennon Letters, edited by Hunter Davies - review" by Jarvis Cocker, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2012.

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• 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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• I raised my three teens with love, perseverance, tenacity, sweat, tears, prayers, lighting candles, and the list could go on.

  Ana Monnar

  Perseverance, Prayer, Sweat

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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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• I survived a number of garage bands during my teens and early twenties, both as drummer and guitarist. It's nigh impossible for me to listen to music without parsing it.

  F. Paul Wilson

  Numbers, Twenties, Band

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• Hispanics still have the highest rate amongst teens with babies so at least the future housekeeping is secure.

  Chelsea Handler

  Baby, Housekeeping, Rate

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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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• My father was able to play a number of musical instruments and I fell in love with classical music in my teens and I allowed it to influence me. I like to think I took and still do from classical music and various techniques, I have made classical albums and recorded seven different pieces of Bach on different albums and its all music too me.

  Steve Hackett

  Father, Thinking, Play

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• Having spent all of my teens and my twenties partying hard (very hard) then working the next day, I can assure you that losing bit of sleep to feed the thing you love most in the world is not a chore at all. Since having a baby I am better rested than ever. Sure, I can't party any more but I don't need to. Because I am happy.

  James Mullinger

  Baby, Party, Sleep

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• You're jeans are full of crap. You're full of beans, you're in you teens. You've lost your mama's road map.

  John Lennon

  Friendship, Jeans, Maps

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• Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.

  Jay Asher

  Desire

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• A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

  Iain Banks

  Reading, Culture, Fiction

  "Sci-Fi Writer Iain Banks Talks Surface Detail's Hell, Creationist Heresy". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. October 15, 2010.

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• Pre-teens, teens and college students have unlimited access to the Internet - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because of the repeated exposure they have to illegal Internet gambling sites, they fall victim by the thousands.

  Spencer Bachus

  Fall, College, Gambling

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• I took some classes in sign language when I was in my early teens because I was told that I would be completely deaf very early. But I never really wanted to learn.

  Stephanie Beacham

  Class, Would Be, Sign Language

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• Certainly working with teens keeps me up to date with language and with certain kinds of thinking. I often feel like I have to go back to that 17-year-old Chris Crutcher, and that forms the core voice. I can draw on teens from 1964 to 2001 to find a part of the voice I need.

  Chris Crutcher

  Thinking, Years, Voice

  Interview with Jennifer M. Brown, www.publishersweekly.com. Mar 12, 2001.

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• I am for anything that makes teens visible in an honest way... in other words, anything that represents them the way they are, positively or negatively.

  Chris Crutcher

  Way, Honest, Positively

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• My focus has kind of been on teenagers, you know, and I think we've got a huge crisis right now in America, among our teens.

  Sean Covey

  Teenager, Thinking, America

  "Glenn Back Show", www.cnn.com. August 10, 2007.

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• A recent study announced that 52 per cent of all teens who sign virginity pledges recant them within twelve months. If I'm on my game.

  Tina Fey

  Funny, Humor, Games

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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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• 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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