“I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I feel works well for very small children as I do with a story for young adults.” ThinkingFeelsWritingWellsChildrenStoriesAgeYoungGroupsAdultsYoung AdultSmall Child Author:Margaret Mahy
“I think that's an important lesson for young people who want to be artists: You have to find someone who believes in you and who will help you find that time where you don't have to think about a job but just making work. If I didn't have those people in my life, I wouldn't be in the position I'm in.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantBelieveImportantHelpingJobsYoungArtistPositionLessonsBelieve In YouImportant Lessons Author:Ryan McGinley
“I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.” ThinkingYoungMythologyRan Author:Tea Obreht
“Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.” ThinkingFeelsShouldKindAgeFormYoungTakenWonderfulEncouragementArtisticEndeavorScopeAttemptingYoung WritersInexperience Author:Tea Obreht
“My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensMightYoungCareersCrisisAmbitiousHungMight Have BeenPrematureMisplacedMidlifeMidlife Crisis Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience.” ThinkingYearsUseYoungNextQualityBoysNeededDisciplineChairsDozenNeuroticCheaperUse Of Time Author:Ridley Pearson
“I think it's great that young girls have the WNBA to look up to now.” ThinkingLooksYoungGirlLook UpWnba Author:Candace Parker
“You're wrong if you think young people don't deserve the vote.” PeopleIfsThinkingYoungDeserveVote Author:Lucy Powell
“I think I'm a different kind of role model for young girls.” ThinkingKindDifferentYoungGirlRolesModelsRole ModelsDifferent Kinds Author:Megan Fox
“I started modeling quite young. I would really recommend to every girl not to start modeling until they turn 17, to be honest. Before that, I think you're not mature enough.” ThinkingEnoughYoungTurnsGirlHonestBeing HonestMatureModelingEvery Girl Author:Anja Rubik
“This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now working with you. I was playing their parents or mentor. I started to think: Oh, I am not part of that group any more.” ThinkingChildrenHappensYoungParentSidesGroupsAdultsOur ChildrenYoung AdultYour ChildrenMentor Author:Geoffrey Rush
“I want young people to see me and think you can be feminine and smart and successful, all at the same time.” PeopleThinkingWantYoungSuccessfulSmartFeminineI Want You Author:Portia de Rossi
“I've gotten to work with amazing people. I would say usually we get to a point before we get into the studio where there isn't that sense of anxiety or nervousness of who they are because I don't think it would be as productive in the studio if that was the case. But maybe meeting someone like Neil Young for the first time made me anxious.” PeopleIfsThinkingFirstsMadeWould BeYoungCasesAnxietyFirst TimeMeetingsStudiosProductiveAnxiousNervousnessAmazing PeopleMeeting Someone Author:Rick Rubin
“When I was young, I kept a diary for about 10 years and I had to write in it every day. Even on days when nothing seemed to happen, I made myself think of something to put in it.” ThinkingWritingYearsMadeHappensYoungDiaries Author:Jonathan Stroud
“I think I will always stay involved in tennis and would like to give back by helping out young players. I have done a little commentary and may one day enjoy doing that again.” ThinkingGivingMayLittlesDoneHelpingYoungEnjoyPlayerInvolvedOne DayTennisGiving BackCommentary Author:Samantha Stosur
“I think the rules will change and I think more and more young women are going to decide that having a family and taking care of a home is not a bad choice, but how do we subsidize it - not necessarily European-style socialism. It'll have to be a new more creative, dynamic and local solution.” ThinkingHomeCareYoungChoicesCreativeStyleSolutionsSocialismLocalsYoung WomenBad Choices Author:Christina Hoff Sommers
“Clown' was written when I couldn't find anyone who believed in me as an artist. Maybe those labels will think twice next time a young songwriter comes along.” ThinkingYoungArtistNextWrittenLabelsSongwritersNext TimeClownThink Twice Author:Emeli Sande
“Young adults in their late 20s are confronted by so many choices - there are so many different paths to choose. Sometimes I think we just fill our lives with stuff so we don't really make any choice at all, which is certainly incredibly luxurious.” ThinkingDifferentSometimesYoungChoicesStuffPathOur LivesLateAdultsYoung AdultLuxuriousDifferent Paths Author:Rachael Taylor
“I have nothing to lose and think that it's a positive thing that I am young and playing on a good level.” ThinkingYoungLosesLevelsNothing To LosePositive Things Author:Caroline Wozniacki
“I think a lot of people just aren't aware how young you can be and be diagnosed with breast cancer.” PeopleThinkingYoungCancerBreastsBreast Cancer Author:Kate Walsh
“One thing I noticed when I was young was I was impatient for success. I think everybody is impatient for success. It will come. But don't - you shouldn't let that impatience drive you crazy.” ThinkingYoungOne ThingCrazyImpatientImpatience Author:Greg Gutfeld
“Think of the millions of young men who died fighting for democracy. We spit on their graves when we let democracy slip away into the sewer of illegal money.” ThinkingMenYoungFightingMoneyMillionsDemocracyDiedGravesYoung ManIllegalSlipsSpitSewers Author:Doris "Granny D" Haddock
“It's not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, "Read," but a writer can read too much and be paralyzed. Or, "Don't read, don't think, just write," and the result could be a mountain of drivel. If you're going to be a writer you'll probably take a lot of wrong turns and then one day just end up writing something you have to write, then getting it better and better just because you want it to be better, and even when you get old and think, "There must be something else people do," you won't be able to quit.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantWritingDifferentEndsMightAbleYoungTurnsResultsToo MuchOne DayMountainQuittingAdviseParalyzedYoung WritersWrong TurnDrivel Author:Alice Munro
“I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.” ThinkingMenWritingBookYoungTurnsMen And WomenYoung Man Author:Paul Auster
“I think a lot of young aspiring writers get misdirected; they think 'I ought to write this, even though I enjoy reading that'. What you have to do is write what you enjoy reading.” ThinkingWritingYoungReadingEnjoyOughtAspiring Writers Author:Jeffery Deaver
“I've run out of mates that haven't had a baby now. It does make me think of my parents having a family so young and the fact that I've been able to avoid it for so long. It does make me a feel a little bit selfish.” ThinkingFeelsLittlesLongDoeFactsRunningAbleYoungBitsParentHavensBabyLittle BitSelfishMates Author:Nick Moran
“When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.” ThinkingWarYoungRolesMilitaryEasierSoldierCommitTendenciesCombat Author:Walter Dean Myers
“People get married when they're 18 and spend their whole lives together. I think their greatest fear is that someone will see it as a fling because they were young and it didn't mean anything.” PeopleThinkingMeanWholeTogetherYoungMarriedWhole LifeFlingGreatest FearLife Together Author:Carey Mulligan
“I do think it was fantastic to have a kid young. My friends now are all panicking if they haven't found somebody to have kids with. It was never like that for me because I already had the kid!” IfsThinkingKidsYoungFoundHavensMy FriendsFantastic Author:Sofia Vergara