quotes about Teens
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It took me years to actually get comfortable on the stage. I prefer the intimacy of screen; it comes easier to me. In theater, you have to be louder and bigger - that was harder for many years in my teens. But now Ive conquered that. I eat up the stage. I love it.
-- Aileen Quinn -
The only place I'm recognized is at the mall, because that's where the teens are.
-- Amy Lee -
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We stay in the house so much because I am waiting for the telephone. I seem to be back in my teens, a period I thought I would never have to endure again: my life is spent hoping for things that only someone else can bring about.
-- Anne Tyler -
When I was in my teens, I made an appraisal of how comfortable my life could turn out when I became the age I am now. Because of a mechanical failure, the prediction was inexact.
-- Arthur NersesianSource : Arthur Nersesian (2009). “The Fuck Up”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
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Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.
-- Arundhati RoySource : Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.279, Penguin Books India
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I came to England in 1962 as a very young bride, in my teens, hoping just to stay two years and go back.
-- Buchi Emecheta -
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Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.
-- Carol Burnett -
Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.
-- Charles de Lint -
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 -
For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.
-- Craig McCracken -
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I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me!
-- Cy Coleman -
Most teens aren’t addicted to social media; if anything, they’re addicted to each other.
-- danah boyd -
Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course.
-- Daniel Handler -
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What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in hopes that they'll realize them.
-- Diane Duane -
The show has brought a lot of pleasure and entertainment to an entire generation of Baby Boomers and now their own teens who watch the show on cable.
-- Dwayne Hickman -
Maybe something that's acceptable in your teens or 20s is unacceptable in your 30s or 40s
-- Eva Mendes -
American teens have the worst of all worlds ... Our children are bombarded and confronted with sexual messages, sexual exploitation, and all manner of sexual criticism. But our society is by and large sexually illiterate.
-- Faye Wattleton -
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I've been an amateur photographer since my teens.
-- Gaspard Ulliel -
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 KunzruSource : "When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock" by Hari Kunzru, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2011.
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The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
-- Homer -
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Teens today rule the world. The whole culture - movies, music - is pointed at young people. They have so 'much' power.
-- James Franco -
Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis -
I've been wearing Wrangler jeans for more than a decade now, all the way back to when I first started playing clubs in my teens in Georgia.
-- Jason Aldean -
If you do not speak to your teens about the meaning of human sexuality and love, the world will fill the void of your silence with a very contrary message.
-- Jason Evert -
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Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.
-- Jay Asher -
In my teens, I was never part of the cool crowd.
-- Jennifer Garner -
Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel.
-- Jo Nesbo -
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 -
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Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly, our options widen.
-- Julia Cameron -
It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything.
-- Julie Walters -
What defines someone's music taste is their teens and early 20s. It's that combination of your sexual awakening and the music of the time, it fixes you forever.
-- Ken Livingstone -
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After I reached my teens I decided I didn't want to hang out with anyone. I couldn't handle the stupidity.
-- Kurt Cobain -
Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.
-- Laura LippmanSource : Laura Lippman (2009). “What the Dead Know: A Novel”, p.21, Harper Collins
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Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.
-- Loretta Young -
I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.
-- Luke Ford -
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I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything
-- Marian McPartland -
The big art is our life.
-- Mary Caroline RichardsSource : Mary Caroline Richards (2011). “Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person”, p.41, Wesleyan University Press
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Traditionally parents have wondered what their teens were doing, but now teens are much more likely to be doing things that can get them killed.
-- Mary Pipher -
Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'
-- Matthew Tobin Anderson -
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Teens look at cause-related efforts with some scrutiny. They know they are often a target market, but it has to make sense to them.
-- Nancy LublinSource : "Q&A: Gen Y's Youngest Demand Authenticity, Via Text". Interview with Sarah Mahoney, www.mediapost.com. March 16, 2012.
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When I was in my early teens, I joined a cult. And we weren't allowed to listen to secular music or anything that wasn't made by us. So I spent a lot of time not listening to music, and by the time I could, I just didn't get into it.
-- Natalia KillsSource : "A Moment With Natalia Kills". Interview with Romy Oltuski, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 28, 2014.
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I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.
-- Nigella Lawson -
Throughout my teens, I just wanted to go somewhere I could wear a Donald Duck pin and no one would care.
-- Paul Feig -
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I was fascinated by The Lord of the Rings from about the age of eight, and that lasted well into my teens.
-- Philip ReeveSource : "Philip Reeve: 'I can't even drive a car, let alone an inter-dimensional phone box'". Interview with Patrick, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2013.
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I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.
-- Robert Cormier -
A young woman in her teens has about 300,000 eggs in her ovaries. By the time she is menopausal, none are left.
-- Robert Winston -
I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues.
-- Ryan Phillippe -
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In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted.
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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 -
When I was young, Stephen Hawking wasn't the world's most famous physicist. The fame didn't arrive until the publication of "A Brief History of Time," by which time I was in my late teens. When I was a child, he was well known among physicists, but they are a fairly select, serious bunch, not much given to celebrity idolizing.
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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 -
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In your teens, you think you know everything, and you know nothing. By your thirties, you're sure you know nothing, but you're happy with that.
-- Tea Leoni -
In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar.
-- Trevor Nunn -
When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring.
-- Vanessa MaeSource : "Vanessa-Mae on the 12 year bitter feud with her mother" by Tom Bryant, www.mirror.co.uk. June 18, 2011.
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When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.
-- Victor Hugo -
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I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.
-- Walt Whitman -
The artist in his teens who is happy is a charlatan. Life comes bursting in all around lis too suddenly, too crudely, too cruelly, for happiness.
-- William McFee -
If you want to be different, do something different.
-- Wynton Marsalis -
I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores.
-- Zoe Lister-Jones -
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I went from really hating my body, to disliking it, to accepting it but not exactly liking it, then accepting it and liking it, and now I love it.
-- Jenni Schaefer -
Hong Kong is not just a global financial center. It's also a place with a lot of teens and youth who love freedom, democracy, and human rights.
-- Joshua WongSource : Source: www.businessinsider.com
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There was a time in my late teens and early 20s where I was motivated by this wanting to get out, to prove to the world that I had something to offer - that kind of youthful spirit, where maybe I had my eye on fame and fortune. I mellowed out in my late 20s and now that I'm in my early 30s, I'm coming to peace with it.
-- Lissie -
Teens are by nature, experimental learners. There is no real understanding of biology without the lab.
-- Wendy Mogel -
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In my late teens, early 20s, when I started stand-up and I was living downtown for the first time, I was deep into my blues and Bukowski phase. And, you know, that's when that's appropriate. And I grew out of it.
-- Paul F. TompkinsSource : "Paul F. Tompkins wants to ride a giant bison to work". Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. February 4, 2016.