Thirteen Year Olds Quotes

• There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you're trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom.

  Ben Affleck

  Mom, Boys, Years

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• Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.

  Max Lerner

  Art, Teenage, Fall

  Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

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• I was a thirteen-year-old boy for thirty years.

  Mickey Rooney

  Boys, Years, Thirty

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• Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year old school girl. Oh well, it doesn’t matter. I feel like writing.

  Anne Frank

  Girl, Writing, School

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.11, Bantam

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• If I could have found what I needed at thirteen, I would not have lost so much of my life chasing vindication or death. Give some child, some thirteen-year old, the hope of the remade life. Tell the truth. Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you there is magic in it.

  Dorothy Allison

  Children, Writing, Years

  Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.145, Open Road Media

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• Does everyone turn into a truculent thirteen-year-old when they go home, or is it just me?

  Arabella Weir

  Family, Home, Years

  Arabella Weir (2012). “Does my Bum Look Big in This?”, p.75, Hachette UK

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• I became involved in photography when I was about thirteen years old.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Photography, Inspiration, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what and who you are depends largely on what book you happen to be reading at the moment.

  Jessica Mitford

  Book, Reading, Years

  Jessica Mitford (1960). “Hons and Rebels”

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• I was born in Massachusetts and lived there until I was thirteen years old.

  Robert Goulet

  Years, Massachusetts, Born

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• He had total love in his eyes when he performed. He was the total androgenous beauty. I would practice Elvis in front of the mirror when I was twelve or thirteen years old.

  K. D. Lang

  Eye, Mirrors, Years

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• People are so obsessed with that these days. As long as you're healthy, what difference do a few pounds make? Crazy diets. Thirteen-year-old girls on magazine covers who wind up in hospitals because they're so anorexic. Real women don't look like that. And who wants them to? No one wants a woman who looks sick or like she;s been from a refugee camp.

  Danielle Steel

  Girl, Crazy, Real

  Danielle Steel (2010). “Big Girl”, p.378, Random House

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• Christians are like a thirteen year old kid who still believes in Santa.

  Jim Jefferies

  Christian, Believe, Kids

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• Dan," she said. "I'm worried about him. It's not right that a thirteen-year-old knows as much as he does bout stealing things." " You're right," Jake said. "He should have been at least sixteen like you before he became part of an international crime ring.

  Roland Smith

  Stealing Things, Should Have, Years

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• What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets." (...) "Obviously, Doctor," she said, "you've never been a thirteen-year-old girl.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Doctors, Years

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.5, Macmillan

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• My first encounter with yoga was in 1969 with my older brother Doug. I was thirteen years old, and he was eighteen. He'd learned about yoga in California on a surfing trip, and when he came back to Houston, Texas, he introduced me to this new stuff he'd learned. I'll always be grateful for that positive influence at an early age.

  David F. Swensen

  Brother, Yoga, Grateful

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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, Teenager, Spring

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• She had the underwear of a thirteen-year-old, as well, he thought. He glanced back at her. But the shoes of a courtesan.

  Anne Stuart

  Years, Shoes, Underwear

  Jennifer Crusie, Eileen Dreyer, Anne Stuart (2007). “The Unfortunate Miss Fortunes”, p.98, Macmillan

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• My life after childhood has two main stories: the story of the hustler and the story of the rapper, and the two overlap as much as they diverge. I was on the streets for more than half of my life from the time I was thirteen years old. People sometimes say that now I'm so far away from that life - now that I've got businesses and Grammys and magazine covers - that I have no right to rap about it. But how distant is the story of your own life ever going to be? The feelings I had during that part of my life were burned into me like a brand. It was life during wartime.

  Jay-Z

  Rap, Two, Years

  "Decoded". Book by Jay-Z, December 7, 2010.

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• It was at thirteen years old that Marya Morevna learned how to keep a secret, and that secrets are jealous things, permitting no fraternization.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Jealous, Years, Secret

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.25, Macmillan

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• It's my heart that is tired. A thirteen-year-old heart shouldn't feel like this.

  Markus Zusak

  Tired, Heart, Years

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• I've always been interested in directing. I started acting when I was thirteen years old, so I've had some desire to do something else in my life.

  Ethan Hawke

  Years, Desire, Acting

  "Watch TIFF Talk: ‘Good Kill’ Team Ethan Hawke & Andrew Niccol Explore Drone Warfare". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. September 17, 2014.

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• I've been able to go so many places. I had the opportunity to go to Hong Kong when I was thirteen years old which is crazy. I lived there for three months. It was amazing. I couldn't ask for a more enriched life so far.

  Dakota Fanning

  Crazy, Opportunity, Years

  "Push - Dakota Fanning interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• As a girl - twelve, thirteen years old - I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its hero, and that depressed me.

  Elena Ferrante

  Girl, Book, Hero

  "Elena Ferrante, Art of Fiction No. 228". Interview with Sandro and Sandra Ferri, elenaferrante.com. 2015.

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• I haven't written for a few days, because I wanted first of all to think about my diary. It's an odd idea for someone like me to keep a diary; not only because I have never done so before, but because it seems to me that neither I-nor for that matter anyone else-will be interested in the unbosomings of a thirteen -year -old schoolgirl. Still, what does that matter? I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.

  Anne Frank

  Lying, Writing, Heart

  "The Diary of a Young Girl". Book by Anne Frank, www.encyclopedia.com. June 25, 1947.

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• Everything is starting to make a little more sense to me now. I love the idea that, first of all when I made the record I don't look at the music by classifying it. People have a problem classifying me as pop, or rock, or folk, or alt. The beauty for me is that a thirteen year old girl can fall in love with the record and so can her mom. I tend to gravitate towards artists that are timeless and don't sound dated.

  Courtney Jaye

  Girl, Mom, Falling In Love

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