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  • I listened to classic rock and roll, and punk rock. 'Goon Squad' provides a pretty accurate playlist of my teenage years, though it leaves out 'The Who,' which was my absolute favorite band.

    Teenage   Rocks   Years  
    "Author Jennifer Egan: Making Her Own Rules". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. March 25, 2011.
  • I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a tenth of what I am today -- whatever that may be. In my teenage years, his writings awoke me to the possibilities of language. His rhythms, tropes, tricks and mannerisms are deep within me. But more than that, he taught me something about good nature. It is enough to be benign, to be gentle, to be funny, to be kind.

    Teenage   Writing   Years  
  • I missed my teenage years. I was never a teenager.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Half the time your kids end up hating you for at least 5 of their teenage years[.] And don't ever expect anything so mundane as a thank you

    Teenage   Hate   Kids  
  • I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.

  • In a lot of areas of my life, particularly in my teenage years, I began to think about the world, and to think about the universe as being a part of my conscious everyday life.

    "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.
  • I remember [in teenage years] thinking there were a lot of check boxes out there to sort teens into appropriate molds, and they didn't seem to make check boxes for whatever it was that I had grown up into. I definitely explore that a lot in my novels.

    Source: www.seventeen.com
  • I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't terribly painful.

    Teenage   Sunday   Years  
    Interview with Suzanne Herel, www.motherjones.com. May 1997.
  • I think I grew up a bit quickly. I wish I was younger than I am in my head. I feel like an old lady for various reasons. I have a yearning to live out my childhood and teenage years and have a bit more fun than I actually did.

    Fun   Teenage   Thinking  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.

    Teenage   Real   Passion  
  • How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them.

    Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.106, BookBaby
  • I'd begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of course the Marvel and DC comics, they had been my main interests in my teenage years.

    Teenage   Reading   Years  
  • If I could look back at the seeds of faith, they were planted back then. I remember in my early teenage years - when, naturally, we become more rebellious, prideful, self-directed and self-willed - I had this nun, Sister Mary Martinella, I'll never forget her - only because of one thing that she said that stuck in my spirit. And it was a rebuke.

    Teenage   Years   Self  
    Source: www.beliefnet.com
  • It is strange how the romances of the teenage years retain a poignancy all through life - how a girl who turns you down when you're 16 retains an aura in your memory even long after you, and she, have ceased to be who you were then. I attended my high school reunion a couple of weeks ago and discovered, in the souvenir booklet assembled by the reunion committee, that one of the girls in my class had a crush on me all those years ago. I would have given a great deal to have had that information at the time.

    Crush   Girl   Teenage  
    Roger Ebert (1997). “Roger Ebert's Video Companion”, Andrews McMeel Pub
  • The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

    The Naked Civil Servant ch. 19 (1968)
  • I'm a big genre fan. I'm a big science fiction nerd and horror film nerd. I'm obsessed with Pam Grier. I wanted to be her for all of my teenage years.

    Teenage   Years   Nerd  
    Source: collider.com
  • My mother's a staunch feminist, so I grew up with very strong feminist messages. As a result, I battled her in my teenage years because my image of being a man was a deformed one.

    Strong   Teenage   Men  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • When I started reaching teenage years, I listened to everything that was on the radio like everyone else did, which was Chuck Berry, Beach Boys and then of course The Beatles, Stones. And of course in the 60's, I was completely blown away like everyone else by Hendrix, Cream, Deep Purple, Jeff Beck and all of that... so those were my influences.

    Beach   Teenage   Boys  
  • I’m 23 right now and I feel like I’m still trying to figure it out. Maybe in another two years, I’ll have it all together. So maybe 25 is the age at which a woman feels her most beautiful just because she’s survived her teenage years and early twenties.

  • If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.

    Teenage   Years   Parent  
  • I had a very happy childhood, happy teenage years and I was famous by the time I was 22. A charmed life.

    "Rik Mayall: Forever young". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2000.
  • There was a point in my teenage years, when we were starting to play bigger shows and females were running after tour buses and all that, and my mom - and I remember this like it was yesterday - said: 'Look, I want you to know that I couldn't be prouder of you. You are extraordinary. You move people. But it doesn't make you better than them. You still put your pants on the same way as them, one leg at a time every morning.' I thought about learning to jump right into them, just to mess with her. But what she said stuck with me, and I think it's true.

    Mom   Running   Morning  
    "Justin Timberlake interview: 'I can count my friends on one hand'". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2011.
  • From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

  • I consider my teenage years as being desperately unhappy.

    Teenage   Years   Unhappy  
    "Disney Kids Have Been Getting Naked and Taking Drugs for Over Half a Century, and Here's the Proof!". Interview, moviepilot.com. January 29, 2015.
  • I was a swimmer growing up. I was a miler - like long, long distance. So I was in the water for four or five hours a day. That's not the way you want to spend your teenage years.

    Source: collider.com
  • Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it.

  • Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

    Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”
  • I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.

  • My mother married again after my father's death - another Royal Air Force officer, and a very different kind of man. We went to Australia when I was eight or nine. We lived there for a couple of years, and then came back and lived in North Wales for the whole of my teenage years... I learned how to write poems quite a lot. I just had a good time reading and reading and reading. So that's where I did most of my growing up.

    "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November 2012.
  • 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.

    Social Studies "Tips for Teens" (1981)
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