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“I have a really big family, and pretty much all my work is about my brothers and sisters. I'm the youngest of eight - my mom had seven kids in seven years, and then she had me 11 years later - so I was basically raised by all these teenagers.”

Years Bigs Kids Brother Mom Raised Seven My Mom Eight Teenager My Brother Brothers And Sisters Seven Years Big Families

Author:Ryan McGinley

“When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an honourable man and he insisted on paying back all his debts. That almost ruined the family. I was aware that my mother and father couldn't control things anymore. I guess I was afraid that we would end up on the street.”

Men Ends Mother Father Streets Debt Teenager Ruined Mother And Father

Author:Jo Nesbo

“My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.”

Men Firsts Eye Remember Poverty Hero Feminist Teenager Discovering

Author:Frances O'Grady

“We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.”

Book Dark Media Available Teenager Dark Times

Author:Tamora Pierce

“Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?”

Giving Book One Thing Materials Periods News Newspapers Teenager Smarter Publishers Time Periods

Author:Tamora Pierce

“When I was a teenager, if you'd asked me, I would have said I was in a relationship with New York City. It was my first real love.”

Ifs Firsts Said Real Cities New York Teenager New York City Real Love

Author:Aleksa Palladino

“Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.”

Writing Wells Two Pieces Wife Wounds Magazines Teenager Two Things Fluffy Being A Teenager

Author:Ann Patchett

“'Slumdog' was my first movie, and I had never been to India before - I was just a teenager in the U.K. with my headphones and my Nike shoes. What did I know about growing up in a slum?”

Knows Firsts Growing Up Growing India Shoes Teenager Slums Nike Headphones Nike Shoe

Author:Dev Patel

“It's rough being a teenager in this day and age.”

Age Teenager Rough This Day Being A Teenager

Author:Kay Panabaker

“My whole thing is that often times when teenagers are about 18, 19, 20, 21, they get this mentality that they have to be old, they have to appear older, they can no longer be seen as a high schooler, they need to be seen as mid-20s all of a sudden even though they're only, like, 20. I'm the opposite of that.”

Needs Whole High School Opposites Teenager Mentality

Author:Kay Panabaker

“I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.”

People Thinking Long Important Artist Lists Bunch Teenager

Author:Madeleine Peyroux

“Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.”

Enough Parent Brain Risk Teenager Uncertain Weeping Evaluate Skip Uncertain Future Volvo

Author:Michael J. Fox

“I have a nice smile, pretty lips, and big round cheeks. They help me look like a teenager.”

Looks Helping Bigs Nice Rounds Lips Teenager Help Me Cheeks Nice Smile

Author:Gabourey Sidibe

“As a gymnast, you always wear spandex. Being a teenager wearing spandex? It was tough accepting how my body looked, especially if there was any weight gain.”

Ifs Body Accepting Tough Gains Weight Teenager Gymnast Being A Teenager Spandex

Author:Alicia Sacramone

“I'm excited for people to realize that I'm 25 years old and not a teenager anymore... even though I still look 18 and can't get into a bar to save my life!”

People Years Looks Stills Realizing Excited Bars Teenager

Author:Brittany Snow

“When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.”

Teenager Teenage

Author:Dario Argento

“In general, you don't want to move your kids when they're teenagers. They're not going to be happy with you.”

Want Kids Moving Teenager

Author:Jeremy Sisto

“As teenagers, we all see ourselves as outsiders... and it's very easy to look at other people who are more popular, who have more pocket money, and it makes you feel even more like an outsider, and it does shape who you become as a person.”

People Feels Looks Persons Doe Easy Shapes Teenager Pockets Outsiders

Author:Maggie Stiefvater

“I was a wayward kid, a rambunctious and angry teenager, but I found acting as a fifteen-year-old.”

Years Kids Found Acting Angry Teenager Fifteen Fifteen Years Fifteen Years Old

Author:Tom Sizemore

“Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off.”

Writing Littles Persons Adults Teenager

Author:Zoe Saldana

“When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality.”

Happens Childhood Normal Complexes Teenager Normality

Author:Audrey Tautou

“I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.”

Littles Social Bits Little Bit Exciting Active Teenager Social Life

Author:Olivia Thirlby

“I was a fan of the 'Dredd' comics when I was a teenager.”

Fans Teenager

Author:Karl Urban

“Being a teenager is hard.”

Hard Teenager Being A Teenager

Author:Mae Whitman

“When I was a teenager, my dad used to call me 'Hollywood' because I wore sunglasses all the time, even at night. Cue song.”

Used Night Song Dad Hollywood My Dad Teenager Call Me Sunglasses

Author:Michael Weatherly

“Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets.”

Thinking Said Play Mother Interesting Roles Exciting Deeper Teenager

Author:Naomi Watts

“I think every teenager goes through their angst. People who are like, 'No, I had a perfect adolescence,' make me wonder how that is possible.”

People Thinking Perfect Wonder Teenager Adolescence Angst

Author:Shailene Woodley

“I think there is a point in every teenager's life where they are forced to come into themselves.”

Thinking Teenager

Author:Shailene Woodley

“In small towns, bored teenagers turn their eyes longingly to the exciting doings in the big cities, pining for urban amenities like hipster bars and farmers' markets and indie-rock festivals. Like everyone else, they want the vibrant and they will not be denied.”

Source: No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler

“The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled in the way that he sees fit, he, in revolt, storms out of the house in denial of the Word of God and in scrutiny of a great deal of those who stand by the Word of God. The epithet 'Heavenly Father' is a grand reflection, a relation to that of human nature.”

Source: Killosophy

“Little kids grow up discovering the world that's shown to them and then when you become a teenager, it kind of shrinks a little bit. I think when you get past that point, one of the important things is that you see there is more to the world than yourself.”

Thinking World Kind Littles Important Kids Past Grows Bits Growing Up Little Bit Important Things Teenager Discovering Little Kid Shrinks Discovering The World

Author:Kenneth Lonergan

“Teenagers all think their life is a movie. If you break up with someone or you have a fight, you walk around with movie scores playing in your head. You sort of see yourself suffering as you're suffering. There's a lot of melodrama attached to the real events of your life.”

Ifs Thinking Real Life Is Suffering Fighting Walks Break Events Teenager Score Melodrama

Author:Kenneth Lonergan

“I was a very independent teenager.”

Independent Teenager

Author:Melanie Lynskey

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

Writing Song Teenager Performing Obsessed

Author:Anthony Minghella

“I developed this fantasy world. I found that that was much more fun and more interesting and exciting than real life was to me. Then, once I got the guitar going when I was a teenager, I set sail for the direction I've been in my whole life.”

World Real Whole Found Fun Interesting Fantasy Exciting Guitar Whole Life Real Life Teenager Sail Fantasy Worlds

Author:Don McLean

“I definitely went through a period when I was a teenager when every girl was 'The One' and every break-up was the 'Worst Thing That Had Ever Happened.'”

Girl Break Happened Worst Periods Teenager Worst Things Every Girl

Author:Edgar Wright

“I know plenty of adults who act like teenagers.”

Knows Adults Plenty Teenager

Author:Michael K. Williams

“Back in my days as a children's book editor, my superiors caught on to the fact that teenagers were using the Internet to gossip about each other, and thought it might be nifty to develop a series of books about an anonymous high-school blogger who gossips about her classmates. The concept was passed on to me.”

Children Book Facts Might School Internet High School Concepts Series Caught Superiors Teenager Gossip Editors Children's Books Bloggers Classmates

Author:Cecily von Ziegesar

“I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.”

Thinking Book Character Film Enjoy Teenager Fringe Loner

Author:Markus Zusak

“When I listen to music - I don't particularly do it for fun all that much. It's not a big part of my life, and I'm not really on top of what's happening in the world of music in the way I was when I was a teenager.”

World Way Bigs Fun Happenings Teenager Listening To Music

Author:John Hodgman

“I felt there needed to be a show for teenagers that didn't make them feel judged. 'Skins' never tried to preach. It allowed young people to make their own decisions about what to do and whether it was right or wrong. Young people really respond to that, and that's what sets 'Skins' apart.”

People Feels Shows Young Felt Decision Needed Skins Teenager Judged

Author:Kaya Scodelario

“We lose eight children and teenagers to gun violence every day. If a mysterious virus suddenly started killing eight of our children every day, America would mobilize teams of doctors and public health officials. We would move heaven and earth until we found a way to protect our children. But not with gun violence.”

Source: A Fighting Chance

“Move it along, teenagers. The only person who gets to canoodle in my bedroom is my magnificent self.”

Persons Self Moving Teenager Magnificent Bedroom Clary Fray Fray

Author:Magnus

“When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.”

School Activity Theater Teenager Settling Extracurricular Activities

Author:Morgan Freeman

“So that’s what we want is a secure and sovereign nation and, you know, I don’t know that all of you are Latino. Some of you look a little more Asian to me. I don’t know that. What we know, what we know about ourselves is that we are a melting pot in this country. My grandchildren are evidence of that. I’m evidence of that. I’ve been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly.”

“My identity was a big issue when I was a teenager, and I had a lot of questions, like: 'Who am I?' 'Who do I belong to?' But when I was still quite young, I decided that belonging is a tough process in life, and I'd better say I belonged to myself and the world rather than belonging to one nationality or another.”

World Stills Bigs Young Process Issues Identity Tough Decided Teenager Belonging Nationality

Author:Hiam Abbass

“Every teenager feels a wanting, a desire for something more, to be heard, to be seen.”

Feels Desire Heard Teenager

Author:Brad Falchuk

“A lot of the problems teenagers go through, it's better for them to go through them on their own. If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.”

Ifs Problem Teenager Crutches

Author:Ben Savage

“Teenagers talk about the idea of having each other's 'full attention.' They grew up in a culture of distraction. They remember their parents were on cell phones when they were pushed on swings as toddlers. Now, their parents text at the dinner table and don't look up from their BlackBerry when they come for end-of-school day pickup.”

“It's often been said, "Violence never solved anything." The simple truth is that when you are slammed up against the wall and the knife is at your throat, when a circle of teenagers is kicking you as you curl into a ball on the sidewalk, or when the man walks into your office building or school with a pair of guns and starts shooting, only violence, or the reasonable threat of violence, is going to save your life. In the extreme moment, only force can stop force.”

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