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  • I've been able to go so many places. I had the opportunity to go to Hong Kong when I was thirteen years old which is crazy. I lived there for three months. It was amazing. I couldn't ask for a more enriched life so far.

    "Push - Dakota Fanning interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.
  • The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth. We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur. But that's the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to a time sharing terminal in 1968. If a million teenagers had been given the same opportunity, how many more Microsofts would we have today?

  • My life after childhood has two main stories: the story of the hustler and the story of the rapper, and the two overlap as much as they diverge. I was on the streets for more than half of my life from the time I was thirteen years old. People sometimes say that now I'm so far away from that life - now that I've got businesses and Grammys and magazine covers - that I have no right to rap about it. But how distant is the story of your own life ever going to be? The feelings I had during that part of my life were burned into me like a brand. It was life during wartime.

    Rap   Two   Years  
    "Decoded". Book by Jay-Z, December 7, 2010.
  • My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old.

  • People are so obsessed with that these days. As long as you're healthy, what difference do a few pounds make? Crazy diets. Thirteen-year-old girls on magazine covers who wind up in hospitals because they're so anorexic. Real women don't look like that. And who wants them to? No one wants a woman who looks sick or like she;s been from a refugee camp.

    Girl   Crazy   Real  
    Danielle Steel (2010). “Big Girl”, p.378, Random House
  • It's my heart that is tired. A thirteen-year-old heart shouldn't feel like this.

    Tired   Heart   Years  
  • It was at thirteen years old that Marya Morevna learned how to keep a secret, and that secrets are jealous things, permitting no fraternization.

    Jealous   Years   Secret  
    Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.25, Macmillan
  • What eleven- to thirteen-year-old boys fear is passivity of any kind. When they do act passively we can be fairly certain that it is an act of aggression designed to torment a parent or teacher. . . . Mischief at best, violence at worst is the boy's proclamation of masculinity.

    Teacher   Boys   Years  
    Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books
  • Sometimes I feel that a more rational explanation for all that has happened during my lifetime is that I am still only thirteen years old, reading Jules Verne or H. G. Wells, and have fallen asleep.

    "Adventures of a Mathematician". Book by Stanislaw Ulam. Preface To the 1983 Edition, p. 27,
  • ...I'm thirteen years old, and I think I'm at the crossroads of my life. I've got to make good between now and the time I'm twenty, and I have only seven years to do it in. Besides, I'm the father of my family and I've got to earn all the money I can.

    Mary Pickford (1955). “Sunshine and shadow”
  • Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.

    Art   Teenage   Fall  
    Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”
  • As a girl - twelve, thirteen years old - I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its hero, and that depressed me.

    Girl   Book   Hero  
    "Elena Ferrante, Art of Fiction No. 228". Interview with Sandro and Sandra Ferri, elenaferrante.com. 2015.
  • I've always been interested in directing. I started acting when I was thirteen years old, so I've had some desire to do something else in my life.

    Years   Desire   Acting  
    "Watch TIFF Talk: ‘Good Kill’ Team Ethan Hawke & Andrew Niccol Explore Drone Warfare". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. September 17, 2014.
  • In the early 90s, I wrote a play called Word of Mouth in which I played a number of different characters. One was a thirteen-year-old boy who, through a series of diary entries, realizes that hes gay.

    Character   Gay   Boys  
  • What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets." (...) "Obviously, Doctor," she said, "you've never been a thirteen-year-old girl.

    Girl   Doctors   Years  
    Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.5, Macmillan
  • The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, The Magic Monkey - it was adapted from an old Chinese legend by a thirteen-year-old prodigy named Plato Chan with the help of his sister.

    Plato   Book   Years  
    "The Ticking Is the Bomb" by Nick Flynn, www.esquire.com. January 24, 2008.
  • Your ideal possession candidate's a thirteen-year-old recently orphaned schizophrenic girl three days away from her period on her way to see the shrink with whom she's romantically besotted.

    Girl   Years   Three  
    Glen Duncan (2007). “I, Lucifer: Finally, the Other Side of the Story”, p.26, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
  • Everything is starting to make a little more sense to me now. I love the idea that, first of all when I made the record I don't look at the music by classifying it. People have a problem classifying me as pop, or rock, or folk, or alt. The beauty for me is that a thirteen year old girl can fall in love with the record and so can her mom. I tend to gravitate towards artists that are timeless and don't sound dated.

  • I love Prada. Not so much the clothes, which are for malnourished thirteen-year-olds, but I covet, with covety covetousness, the shoes and handbags. Like, I LOVE them. If I was given a choice between world peace and a Prada handbag, I'd dither. (I'm not proud of this, I'm only saying.)

    Years   Shoes   Clothes  
  • My first encounter with yoga was in 1969 with my older brother Doug. I was thirteen years old, and he was eighteen. He'd learned about yoga in California on a surfing trip, and when he came back to Houston, Texas, he introduced me to this new stuff he'd learned. I'll always be grateful for that positive influence at an early age.

    Brother   Yoga   Grateful  
  • it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

    Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.11, Bantam
  • Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year old school girl. Oh well, it doesn’t matter. I feel like writing.

    Girl   Writing   School  
    Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.11, Bantam
  • He had total love in his eyes when he performed. He was the total androgenous beauty. I would practice Elvis in front of the mirror when I was twelve or thirteen years old.

    Eye   Mirrors   Years  
  • I came face to face with death at thirteen years old.

    Years   Faces   Thirteen  
  • I haven't written for a few days, because I wanted first of all to think about my diary. It's an odd idea for someone like me to keep a diary; not only because I have never done so before, but because it seems to me that neither I-nor for that matter anyone else-will be interested in the unbosomings of a thirteen -year -old schoolgirl. Still, what does that matter? I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.

    Lying   Writing   Heart  
    "The Diary of a Young Girl". Book by Anne Frank, www.encyclopedia.com. June 25, 1947.
  • Does everyone turn into a truculent thirteen-year-old when they go home, or is it just me?

    Family   Home   Years  
    Arabella Weir (2012). “Does my Bum Look Big in This?”, p.75, Hachette UK
  • Dan," she said. "I'm worried about him. It's not right that a thirteen-year-old knows as much as he does bout stealing things." " You're right," Jake said. "He should have been at least sixteen like you before he became part of an international crime ring.

  • She had the underwear of a thirteen-year-old, as well, he thought. He glanced back at her. But the shoes of a courtesan.

    Years   Shoes   Underwear  
    Jennifer Crusie, Eileen Dreyer, Anne Stuart (2007). “The Unfortunate Miss Fortunes”, p.98, Macmillan
  • A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what and who you are depends largely on what book you happen to be reading at the moment.

    Book   Reading   Years  
    Jessica Mitford (1960). “Hons and Rebels”
  • I put my friends and family first. I'm really just a normal thirteen-year-old girl who has a different hobby than most girls my age. Acting is kind of an extracurricular activity.

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