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“As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.”

“As a teenage daughter hears her sweet mother plead unto the Lord that her daughter will be inspired in the selection of her companions, that she will prepare herself for a temple marriage, don't you believe that such a daughter will seek to honor this humble, pleading petition of her mother, whom she so dearly loves?”

Believe Mother Lord Sweet Honor Daughter Inspired Humble Temples Companion Teenage Selection Be Inspired Petitions Pleading Teenage Daughter Temple Marriage

Author:Thomas S. Monson

Source: Live the Good Life

“As a teenage girl myself, I've gone through times in my life where I've felt insecure about who I am and have tried so hard to fit in with everyone else.”

Hard Girl Felt Gone Fit Who I Am Teenage Insecure Rough Times Teenage Girl

Author:Kelli Berglund

“As a teenager and a young adult, I never felt like my own story was interesting enough to tell, so I always wrote lyrics from someone else's perspective - told someone else's story.”

Enough Stories Young Felt My Own Interesting Perspective Adults Young Adult Teenager

Author:Zach Condon

“As a teenager and even still now being 21, it's always love questions - it's always so confusing.”

Stills Teenager Confusing

Author:Ashlee Simpson

“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.”

Trying Kind Real Running Beautiful Night Water Sleep Darkness Mountain Calm Scared Teenager Kill Me

Author:Samantha Hunt

“As a teenager and young adult, I found being mute intensely isolating and dehumanizing. I felt truly like I was just a pair of eyes and ears - an entity without a body, without a face, and without a mouth. I felt as though I was barely a physical being.”

Body Isolation Entity Depersonalization Selective Mutism Dehumanizing

Author:Carl Sutton

Source: Selective Mutism In Our Own Words: Experiences in Childhood and Adulthood

“As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.”

School Felt High School Teenager Outsiders

Author:Shawn Ashmore

“As a teenager especially, I just wanted to do my thing and not be noticed.”

Wanted Teenager

Author:Kristi Yamaguchi

“As a teenager growing up in Europe, I embraced the romantic ideal. For me, I had to give up the ideal that one person would be there for everything. Once you give up that ideal, then you begin to accept the person that you are with - the person who won't be able to give you everything and who won't be able to know exactly what you want and feel without you even needing to say it.”

Giving Accepting Growing Up Giving Up Teenager

Author:Esther Perel

“As a teenager I clearly remember mornings when I was getting ready for school when something would -just still me- and I would lean forward and peer very intensely into the eyes of the girl in that mirror. who is that? I didn't know . I looked into those eyes as if they had the answer to who I am or who I could be." So I would search the depths of those green and blue flecked eyes. Calmly searching the eyes of this stranger as if I thought that if I looked deep enough, or long enough, I would find the answer to why I was even here. I didn't know what I know now. That I could only find out my identity, who I was when I stopped looking into my own eyes and instead searched in the eyes of Jesus. Only He could REALLY tell me who I am. Who I can be. Who I will be...”

Inspirational Life

Author:Laura A. Diaz

“As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.”

Littles Play Passion Studios Teenager Bedroom Hobbies Garage

Author:Natasha Bedingfield

“As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus or sit in the segregated section of a train. The first time I had been seated behind a curtain in a dining car, I felt as if the curtain had been dropped on my selfhood.”

Ifs Firsts Facts Able Felt Behinds Accepting Car First Time Train Teenager Bus Sections Curtains Dining

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

Source: I have a dream: the life and words of Martin Luther King, Jr

“As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.”

Ideas Motivational Winning Careers Circumstances Lucky Gold Athlete Teenager No Idea Medal Athletic Gold Medals

Author:Peter Snell

“As a teenager I just wanted to fit in, just to be one of the boys. It was tough. I went to an all black school. I went so far as to have them print my negative in the yearbook. I think it was the black teeth that gave me away.”

Thinking Wanted School Black Boys Fit Tough Negative Teeth Teenager Print All Black Yearbook

Author:Ronnie Shakes

“As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar.”

Painting Guitar Teenager Playing Guitar

Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie

“As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar...Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel...This song ("Until It's Time for You To Go") popped into my head while I was falling in love with someone I knew couldn't stay with me. The words are about honesty and freedom inside the heart.”

Heart Has Beens Song Fall Cry Honesty Painting Lovers Falling In Love Guitar Teenager Songwriting Towels Stay With Me Playing Guitar My Lover Guitar Music

Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie

“As a teenager I studied opera, believe it or not. But I just couldn't catch on to it.”

Believe Teenager Opera

Author:Karen Black

“As a teenager I was clinically depressed. Although I had lots of friends, I found those years very difficult.”

Years Found Difficult Teenager Lots Of Friends

Author:Lena Headey

“As a teenager I was crazy about David Bowie. He was a huge inspiration for me. I dressed a little bit crazily in school and dyed my hair every colour under the sun.”

Littles Inspiration School Bits Sun Crazy Huge Hair Little Bit Teenager Colour Bowie

Author:Clive Owen

“As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.”

People Want Teenager Thrive Anarchist Harmonious

Author:Nicolas Cage

“As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.”

Writing Song Teenager Performing Obsessed

Author:Anthony Minghella

“As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition, too.”

Inspirational Guy Talent Type Ambition Convinced Teenager Teens Insecure My Ambition Type Of Guy Being A Teenager

Author:Johnny Depp

“As a teenager I was very clear that I wasn't in the church just to toe the line, but I saw there was a capacity within Christianity and the bible not to fall into line but to question the status quo, that's what kept me in the church. I was listening to the sort of music that did that questioning.”

Fall Church Lines Christianity Clear Saws Listening Capacity Teenager Questioning Toes Status Quo

Author:Alan Green

“As a teenager I went all Goth, but I wasn't mopey enough. I would pretend to be, but I'd end up making people laugh.”

People Ends Enough Laughing Teenager Making People Laugh Goth

Author:Melissa McCarthy

“As a teenager I wrote to R.A. Lafferty. And he responded, too, with letters that were like R.A. Lafferty short stories, filled with elliptical answers to straight questions and simple answers to complicated ones.”

Stories Simple Answers Letters Filled Complicated Teenager Short Story

Author:Neil Gaiman

“As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold immutable fact, that he would do anything necessary, sacrificing whatever or whomever he had to, to avoid risking exposure to physical violence. Shame never came into it. He embraced his new identity as a coward. He would run in the other direction. He would lie down and cry and put his arms over his head or play dead. It didn't matter what he had to do, he would do it and be glad.”

Matter Play Facts Running Lying Fear Violence Sacrifice Cry Identity Arms Cold Shame Down And Glad Teenager Engaged Coward Exposure Brooklyn Quentin Physical Violence

Author:Lev Grossman

Source: The Magicians: A Novel

“As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.”

Inspirational Motivational Lasts Happiness Stage Phones Teenager Teens Adolescence Teenage Telephones Teenage Girl Teenage Years Stages Of Life Being A Teenager Teenage Life

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“As a teenager, even as a younger girl, I had some depression but no one really noticed that it was depression nor did I know in those days that that's what it was but I did feel different from other people.”

People Knows Feels Different Girl Teenager

Author:Linda Hamilton

“As a teenager, I began to question the Great Christian Sorting System. My gay friends in high school were kind and funny and loved me, so I suspected that my church had placed them in the wrong category... Injustices in the world needed to be addressed and not ignored. Christians weren't good; people who fought for peace and justice were good. I had been lied to, and in my anger at being lied to about the containers, I left the church. But it turns out, I hadn't actually escaped the sorting system. I had just changed the labels.”

“As a teenager, I didn’t want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me.”

People Ifs Want Different Wanted Aspect I Realized Teenager Different Peoples

Author:Marion Cotillard

“As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.”

Bigs Age My Friends Teenager Breasts Cracked Big Breast

Author:Queen Latifah

“As a teenager, I had to struggle alone to learn about myself and what it meant to be gay. Now for [48] years I've had the satisfaction of working with other gay people all across the country to get the bigots off our backs, to oil the closet door hinges, to change prejudiced hearts and minds, and to show that gay love is good for us and for the rest of the world too. It's hard work---but it's vital, and it's gratifying, and it's often fun!”

“As a teenager, I increasingly had questions about religion to which I found no good answers.”

Found Answers Teenager

Author:Julian Baggini

“As a teenager, I loved acting, painting, photography, and making films with my friend's Super 8 camera. But I always loved writing the best. I chose writing even before I knew poetry was available to me.”

Writing Film Acting Painting Photography My Friends Cameras Available Teenager

Author:Denise Duhamel

“As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.”

Made Moral Findings Decided Pressure Teenager Abandon Stressed Judgmental High Ground Moral High Ground

Author:Veronica Roth

“As a teenager, I read a lot of H.P. Lovecraft, so I wrote like H.P. Lovecraft. And in my 20s, I read a lot of Ross Macdonald and Raymond Chandler, so I wrote like those guys. But, little by little, you develop your own style.”

Littles Guy Style Teenager Lovecraft

Author:Stephen King

“As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.”

Writing Play Wanted Film Novel College Theater Teenager

Author:Richard Linklater

“As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the rest of the time. I was sent away to this public school in the middle of nowhere, and I think we managed to completely miss out on normal youth culture.”

Thinking Kind School Artist Culture Team Middle Missing Youth Strange Type Normal Vices Teenager Sensitive Captains Mixtures Public School Rugby Youth Culture Middle Of Nowhere

Author:Mark Haddon

“As a teenager, I was an enormous fan of Valerie Bertinelli's hair.”

Fans Hair Enormous Teenager

Author:Jennifer Aniston

“As a teenager, I was really trying to have fun 24 hours a day. I didn't start thinking until I was 20 or 21. I was doing regular goof-ball stuff.”

Thinking Trying Fun Stuff Hours Balls Teenager Having Fun Goofs

Author:David Lynch

“As a teenager, I was very much a people pleaser and that excludes being adventuresome at all. I was a Boy Scout though and so that's as adventuresome as I got.”

People Boys Teenager Boy Scout Pleasers

Author:Rob Corddry

“As a teenager, I would tell the teacher I was sick just so I could lie down in the nurse's office and listen to my headphones, thinking about how that day may be the best day ever, but I'm only capable of acknowledging that from a sickbed, lost in my own world.”

Thinking World May Lying Lost My Own Teacher Office Capable Sick Teenager Being The Best Nurse Headphones My Own World Best Day Ever

Author:Wesley Eisold

“As a teenager, Michel believed that suffering conferred dignity on a person. Now he had to admit that he had been wrong. What conferred dignity on people was television.”

People Persons Suffering Television Dignity Teenager

Author:Michel Houellebecq

“As a teenager, my favourite rejection was, 'She looks too healthy,' which of course translates as, 'She needs to lose weight.'”

Needs Looks Courses Loses Healthy Weight Teenager Rejection Favourite Translate Lose Weight

Author:Christina Ricci

“As a teenager, my struggle was how do I balance being empathetic and compassionate towards my peers, while also living my life for myself and not basing my decisions on those around me, and really living a life where I receive my happiness from my own experiences rather than from people pleasing.”

People My Own Decision Struggle Balance Teenager Compassionate Peers Living My Life Empathetic My Struggle Really Living

Author:Shailene Woodley

“As a teenager, you have so much energy and hormones and you feel powerless in your life.”

Feels Energy Teenager Powerless Hormones

Author:Patricia Arquette

“As a teenager, you're still discovering who you are, what your life is about, and who you want to be as a person. It's very intense.”

Want Persons Stills Life Is Who You Are Intense Teenager Discovering Discovering Who You Are

Author:Kaya Scodelario

“As a television actor, there's a power you're given to use your image to do something valuable. As a parent, these messages are particularly important to me.”

Important Use Actors Given Parent Television Messages Valuable

Author:Eric McCormack

“As a television show, and a good one, "Sesame Street" does not encourage children to love school or anything about school. It encourages them to love television.”

Education Media Television Information Age Sesame Street Child Education

Author:Neil Postman

Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

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