I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.

I was a bit of a loner as a teenager. I never went to a single social event, because they terrified me.

When you give directives to a child, especially a teenager, you must consider the nature of your child.

I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Let your child be the teenager he or she wants to be, not the adolescent you were or wish you had been.

My husband and I met when I was a teenager, and I've been with him for more than half of my adult life.

A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time

I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with peer pressure.

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

If I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it's OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them.

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

'The Darkest Minds' came from a period in my life where I felt my most powerless, when I was a teenager.

I have the integrity of a teenager and that's never going to be stolen from me. I'm the original virgin.

I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.

Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.

And the sexes eyeing each other uneasily, for nothing is easier for a teenager to imagine than rejection.

We know that it's hard enough being a teenager. It's particularly hard being a teenager who's coming out.

When I was a little girl - well, like, a teenager - I wanted to be Sam Jackson. I always wanted to be men.

I have wanted to have a baby since I was a teenager, but it frightens me. It is much easier to have a dog.

Turkeys know their names, come when you call, and are totally affectionate. They're better than teenagers.

I see myself as the world's oldest living teenager... I try to get as much kick out of things as possible.

I was so very interested in literature and so relatively uninterested in the movies when I was a teenager.

As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.

Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman.

When you're lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.

I love all the Hollywood women. I saw all the films when I was a teenager. Jack Smith's "Flaming Creatures".

I'm just trying to make the kind of music that I'd listen to as a teenager and forget about all my problems.

All these teenagers tell us how much they want to grow up and then when they do they want to be young again.

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

The thing that bums me out about 'The Real World' is I don't want to believe that teenagers are that stupid.

The thing I longed for as a teenager is now an object of neglect and scorn. I've grown to hate my telephone.

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

As a teenager I was clinically depressed. Although I had lots of friends, I found those years very difficult.

I don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be happy to deal with it.

John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.

I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.

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.

I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on my fingers.

Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve.

When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.

That 'adult contemporary' status nearly killed me... C'mon, I'm not a teenager, but I'm not a dinosaur either.

You walk around feeling like a teenager and immortal your whole life, and suddenly there isn't much time left.

A baroque art-rock bubblegum broadcast on a frequency understood only by female teenagers and bred field mice.

I like when a teenager comes and talks to me on the street. I've been through a lot and I have a lot to share.

Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out.

I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.

I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of different ideas.

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a rock star, not an actor. It means I can do what I want on my own terms.

Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us.

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