It was always the view of my parents," Emily said, "that hot weather encouraged loose morals among young people.
He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.
How old are you?” “Old enough to know better, but still young enough to do it again.
What is your advice to young writers?” “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.
I suffered from a quite severe speech impediment when I was young, and keeping a journal was part of the therapy.
When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.
When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched. That was something I not only felt, but I participated in.
As a leader of a majority-Muslim nation, I believe Islamic countries must better understand what young people aspire to.
Young people need to vote. They need to get out there. Every vote counts. Educate yourself too. Don't just vote. Know what you're voting for, and stand by that.
You're not ethnic enough. You're not fat enough. You're not thin enough. You're not blond enough. You're not dark enough. You're not young enough. You're not old enough.
I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
If you're young and wild, you tend to believe your clippings. One day you're Hemingway. The next day you're nothing.
With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren't going to wait years and years for the next book.
I've worked myself to exhaustion before. I was so young, and I thought I could do everything; it was just too much for my body and my mind.
I really dislike it when the media asks young actresses, normally when they're about 23, how they feel about ageing. There are other things to worry about.
Young people, for whom I should have been a role model and an uncle, duplicated my worst habits and died as a result.
I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.
I'm a Midwesterner by birth, and when I traveled there, when I was young, most of the small towns were thriving, vibrant places.
True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years.
