3 December 2020 Louise J. Kaplan Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.
3 December 2020 Willie Aames I didn’t want to be the typical teen idol. I didn’t want to be Leif Garrett. I didn’t want to be Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy or Parker Stevenson. I wanted to do my own thing.
3 December 2020 John Walters Research shows that parents are the single biggest influence on children – if you are worried about your teen and drugs, talk to them.
3 December 2020 Adam Brody I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff – kissing – is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.
3 December 2020 Mary Pipher Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.
3 December 2020 John Knowles Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.
3 December 2020 John B. S. Haldane A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
3 December 2020 Chantal Kreviazuk Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings.
3 December 2020 Maggie Stiefvater When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it’s a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.
3 December 2020 Dave Barry Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.
3 December 2020 Andrew Shue The most important role models should and could be parents and teachers. But that said, once you’re a teenager you’ve probably gotten as much of an example from your parents as you’re going to.
3 December 2020 Tommy Chong We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.
3 December 2020 John Green We don’t tend to write about disease in fiction – not just teen novels but all American novels – because it doesn’t fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.
3 December 2020 Marla Sokoloff I’m pretty sure this is it for the teen movie thing. It’s so frustrating to read when you get to page 20 and you’re like, Oy! It’s the same thing again!
3 December 2020 Ann Brashares The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.
3 December 2020 Rick Springfield They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time.
3 December 2020 Alexa Vega I think I am too old to be doing teen movies. I am just kind of annoyed, because you have all these teen movies coming out with usually either Lindsay Lohan or Hilary Duff doing four of the exact teen movies over and over again.
3 December 2020 David Wilkerson I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries.
3 December 2020 Johnny Depp As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.
3 December 2020 James McAvoy I really liked ‘Starter For Ten’ because I grew up watching 1980s teen films like ‘St. Elmo’s Fire’ and ‘The Breakfast Club’ and I’ve always wanted to play the underdog lead hero in a 1980s-inspired film.
3 December 2020 Joe Bob Briggs As I’ve said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.
