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“When I was 12 years old, or however old I was when Bringing It All Back Home came out, I'd just skip back and forth endlessly between 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' and 'It's Alright, Ma' and 'Mr. Tambourine Man,' and now my Bob Dylan roots are showing big time.”

Men Years Home Bigs Roots Dylan Back And Forth Alright Back Home Skip Homesick

Author:Rodney Crowell

“When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before.”

Ifs Years Moving Space Serious Dancing Great Experiences

Author:Leslie Fiedler

“When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four-wheeler. I ended up getting both presents for Christmas.”

Wanted Four Christmas Trampolines Four Wheelers

Author:Chris Brown

“When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough.”

Enough Wanted School Beautiful Be Good Admirable

Author:Diane Lane

“When I was 12, I began listening to John Coltrane and I developed a love for jazz, which I still have more and more each year.”

Years Stills Listening Jazz Coltrane

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“When I was 12, I did my first sort of speaking role. But I wouldn't say I had a passion for it from the start. It developed as I started to become a bit more mature.”

Firsts Passion Bits Roles Mature

Author:Yasmin Paige

“When I was 12, I first made the decision to go vegetarian after a co-star's line 'I don't eat anything with a face' suddenly shocked me into reality.”

Firsts Made Reality Faces Stars Lines Decision Vegetarian Shocked

Author:Renee Olstead

“When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.”

Parent Keys Seven Apartment

Author:Alain Robert

“When I was 12, I got a manager, but my mom was against it. It took a lot of convincing. But when I got a job at Manhattan Theatre Club, I think she saw how passionate I was about it and that I worked really hard - and now she's super supportive.”

Thinking Hard Jobs Saws Mom Passionate Clubs My Mom Theatre Managers Supportive Convincing Manhattan

Author:Nicola Peltz

“When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed.”

Coaches Championship Crushed Pitcher Softball Devastated

Author:Jennie Finch

“When I was 12, I happened to see a schoolmate playing percussion, and it looked interesting. I asked for lessons, and it felt right.”

Felt Interesting Happened Lessons Percussion Schoolmates

Author:Evelyn Glennie

“When I was 12, I used to dress as a woman in the house. At the time, cross-dressing was a big taboo in Italy. It was better to have a son who was a drug addict than a cross-dresser.”

Bigs Used House Son Drug Crosses Dresses Addict Dressings Taboo Drug Addict Dressers

Author:Riccardo Tisci

“When I was 12, I was in Oliver! at a theater in Glasgow.”

Theater Glasgow

Author:Gerard Butler

“When I was 12, I wrote a list of things to do before I died. Own a Picasso was one of those things.”

Died Lists Things To Do

Author:Jill Scott

“When I was 12, we moved from New Jersey to Florida. The Gulf of Mexico was literally my backyard. Every day, I could see the ocean. At low tide I went out and played in seagrass meadows that used to come right up to the shore, filled with tiny seahorses, pipefish and soft corals. There was so much life! But then I witnessed the change, the loss of the shoreline, the loss of the mangrove trees, the loss of the seagrass meadows. Shallow bay areas were turned into parking lots.”

Used Loss Tree Ocean Lows Areas Moved Filled Tiny Shore Mexico Tides Florida Shallow Jersey Meadows Parking New Jersey Backyards Parking Lot Bay Area Gulf Of Mexico Shoreline

Author:Sylvia Earle

“When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.”

School Air Fresh Air Glasgow Fortnight Aberdeen

Author:Billy Connolly

“When I was 13 and 14, there were a lot of jokes about my bar mitzvah and my grandparents, and then when I got older, it became more about touching boobs and trying to get liquor, you know? I kind of ran the gamut of infantile behavior... And I haven't moved one step forward since.”

Trying Kind Steps Havens Behavior Jokes Moved Bars Ran Touching Grandparent Liquor Steps Forward Infantile Bar Mitzvah Mitzvah

Author:Seth Rogen

“When I was 13 I had a fake Id that said that I was 19. I was getting in all the clubs.”

People Said Clubs Fake Fake People

Author:Kurtis Blow

“When I was 13 I told my dad I'd rather kill myself than do an ordinary job. He vaguely muttered something about how I'd need to earn a living somehow, but he's been totally behind me, forking out money he didn't really have to send me to university. Every other comedian I've met had to fight their parents to be allowed to do this but mine have been brilliant.”

Needs Has Beens Jobs Fighting Parent Behinds Mines Dad Mets Ordinary University My Dad Brilliant Comedian Being A Parent

Author:Noel Fielding

“When I was 13 my dream was to play the U.S. Open. Now it's to win it.”

Play Dream Winning

Author:Yani Tseng

“When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me from becoming a mathematician.”

Literature Novel Becoming Caught Take Me Mathematician Caught Up Save Me Devouring

Author:Mark Haddon

“When I was 13 or 14, I took seven months off from touring. I did a lot of weekend gigs in Louisiana. We have fairs and festivals every weekend. But I took seven months off. That's when I really started digging deep. I wrote a couple songs that year that I still play every now and then for people.”

People Years Stills Play Song Months Couple Fairs Seven Weekend Now And Then Festivals Touring Gigs Digging Louisiana Seven Months Digging Deep

Author:Hunter Hayes

“When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.”

Book Used Mother Dying Memorable Most Memorable

Author:Kajol

“When I was 13 they were saying your album won't come out until your sweet 16. I felt really frustrated because that felt like forever from then and I felt like I was ready then. Looking back I wasn't ready.”

Felt Forever Ready Sweet Albums Frustrated Looking Back

Author:Cheyenne Kimball

“When I was 13 years old, a professional theater company in my town needed a kid actor. I auditioned, and I got the part, so for just a few weeks I became a member of the company and I met some professional actors.”

Years Kids Actors Company Week Needed Mets Members Theater Towns

Author:Trevor Nunn

“When I was 13, 14, 15, I had played in a couple of jazz ensembles. I didn't know anything about harmony, about II-V-I, though I had learned my scales with Caesar [DiMauro].”

Knows Couple Harmony Jazz Scales Ensemble

Author:Jon Gordon

“When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.'”

Years Made Facts Hours Grew Grew Up Hills Cop Murphy Beverly Hills Rush Hour

Author:Brett Ratner

“When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view.”

Views Guitar Point Of View Explaining

Author:Katy Perry

“When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.”

Firsts Play Song Guitar Solo Ramones

Author:Eddie Vedder

“When I was 13, I had my first job with my dad carrying shingles up to the roof. And then I got a job washing dishes at a restaurant. And then I got a job in a grocery store deli. And then I got a job in a factory sweeping Cheerio dust off the ground.”

Firsts Jobs Dad My Dad Stores Dust Restaurants Factories Dishes Roof Groceries Washing Sweeping Grocery Stores Washing Dishes Shingles

Author:Ashton Kutcher

“When I was 13, I kind of got into the punk scene. I realized it was easier to wear a pair of combat boots and jeans and a beat-up T-shirt. I think of it as a uniform: Ya know, if you're a Maytag man, you put on your bow tie. I still have T-shirts from when I was that age.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Men Kind Stills Age Easier Scene Beats I Realized Shirts Ties Pairs Combat Boots Punk Bows Uniforms Jeans T Shirt Bow Tie Combat Boots

Author:Justin Theroux

“When I was 13, I moved from New Jersey to Germany with my family. The high school was so supportive of my dream to continue with my theater training; instead of taking PE, I would get credit for dance lessons.”

Dream School Lessons Training High School My Family Theater Moved Credit Germany Supportive Jersey New Jersey

Author:Nina Arianda

“When I was 13, I really used to skip down the street, happy in thinking, "Oh, well, someone's suffering pain in order for me to feel this pleasure."”

Thinking Feels Wells Pain Used Suffering Order Pleasure Streets Skip Oh Well Suffering Pain

Author:Zadie Smith

“When I was 13, I remember crying on my mum's shoulder when my first girlfriend dumped me via MSN Messenger. That was cold.”

Firsts Remember Cry Cold Shoulders Girlfriend Mum Messengers Dumped

Author:Conor Maynard

“When I was 13, I saw him [Elvis] perform live and I suddenly understood what sex is all about. I was screaming at the top of my lungs.”

Sex Saws Understood Lungs

Author:Raquel Welch

“When I was 13, I told Henry Winkler I wanted to act. He said, Do it and don't let anyone stand in your way. His validation just made it all the more true. I haven't stopped thanking him since.”

Way Made Said Wanted Havens Made It Validation Thanking Him

Author:Marlee Matlin

“When I was 13, I told my parents I didn't believe in God any more. Religion should not be about determining women's freedoms.”

Should Believe Parent Believe In God

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“When I was 13, I was just figuring out how to play 'Eruption,' poorly, by Eddie Van Halen.”

Play Vans Eruption Van Halen

Author:Dierks Bentley

“When I was 13, I was playing in the bars. I guess it's a changing world. Some things are better today, like the internet. We have different ways of reaching each other. E-mail and all that stuff is wonderful. I actually think the kids are missing out on a lot of stuff.”

Thinking World Way Different Kids Today Stuff Wonderful Missing Internet Bars Different Ways Reaching Mail Missing Out

Author:Ray Parker, Jr.

“When I was 13, I wasn't the coolest kid in my class, and that inner dork is a wonderful thing to have.”

Kids Class Wonderful Wonderful Things Dork

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“When I was 13, I worked for Western Union. When the telegrams came in, I would glue them on the paper and deliver them on my bicycle.”

Paper Unions Western Bicycle Glue Telegrams

Author:Francis Ford Coppola

“When I was 13, listening to Choice FM, I would listen to a lot of R&B from America, and whenever a British person tried to do it, it didn't really work, they just sounded like they were trying to copy that whole style. Now the music sounds British, something real rather than an imitation.”

Trying Persons Real Whole America Choices Sound Style Listening British Copies Imitation Something Real

Author:Katy B

“When I was 14 -years-old, I made this PowerPoint presentation, and I invited my parents into my room and gave them popcorn. It was called 'Project Hollywood 2004' and it worked. I moved to L.A. in January of 2004.”

Years Made Parent Rooms Projects Hollywood Moved Invited Presentation January Popcorn Powerpoint

Author:Emma Stone

“When I was 14-15 There was nothing to my life but dancing and sex I'd go to night clubs and dance Then I'd meet someone and have sex it was Fine and easy nothing to do BUT Think with my body like a bird I Thought I was Free TrAcey Emin”

Sex Freedom Dancing Teenager Child Abuse Free Promiscuity Effects Of Child Abuse Sexual Exploitation Underage

Author:Tracey Emin

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“When I was 14 a chaplain at school gave me a reading list. I read everything and I went back to him with a question: how can you really believe in this stuff?”

Believe School Reading Stuff Atheism Lists Chaplains

Author:A.C. Grayling

“When I was 14 and living in London, I'd go around Hampton Court Palace with its marvelous atmosphere, through the gateway where Ann Boleyn walked, the haunted gallery down which Katherine Howard ran. It all set me going. It all started from there.”

Court London Atmosphere Ran Marvelous Palaces Gallery Gateways Hamptons

Author:Jean Plaidy

“When I was 14 I came very close to becoming a gay teen suicide 'statistic' but I then turned to music, my piano, my loved ones, and discovered that it does in fact get better.”

Doe Facts Becoming Gay Suicide Piano Get Better Loved Ones

Author:Blake McIver Ewing

“When I was 14 I used to have a calendar on my wall, crossing the days off until I was 15, because the school leaving age was 15. Then three months before I turned 15 they changed the leaving age to 16.”

Age School Used Three Changed Wall Months Leaving Crossings Calendars Three Months Days Off

Author:Mark E. Smith

“When I was 14 I would pick up my brother's bass guitar, and I would just pound on it, having no idea how to play it.”

Ideas Play Brother Picks Guitar No Idea My Brother Pounds Bass Bass Guitar

Author:Steve Burns

“When I was 14 or 15, a camp counselor told me I was smart. I had never been very good in school, but he told me once that I was smart but my mind operated a little differently.”

Mind Littles School Smart Very Good Camps Counselor Camp Counselors

Author:Alan Dershowitz

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