Quotes of: Teen-years Keyword

Songwriting was always my 'plan B'. I didn't even know that songwriting was a job until my late teens!

Keri Hilson

Older teens tend to write to me and say, 'Thank you for not writing down to teenagers.'

Matthew Tobin Anderson

It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens.

Maggie Gallagher

I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead.

Marilyn vos Savant

Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.

Mariella Frostrup

I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into.

Martina McBride

I think the happiest time of my life was when I was in my late teens. I was a little bit of an it-girl. Making myself seen. And it was a wonderful time to be young.

Charlotte Rampling

The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.

Camille Paglia

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

D. H. Lawrence

We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free.

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.

John Walters

If I can write a book that will help the world make a little more sense to a teen, then that's why I was put on the planet.

Laurie Halse Anderson

If you were an optimistic teen, then you'll be an optimist at 80. People's reactions to bad events are highly stable over a half century or more.

Martin Seligman

I write edgy, sexy teen romances, and that's what I'll continue to do.

Simone Elkeles

I would not recommend a teen getting into modeling if they're not solid when it comes to their grades and school. That comes first. My mother always told me that came first.

Tyra Banks

Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.

Macaulay Culkin

I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It's the last gasp of really being a teen.

Sarah Dessen

To be honest, I haven't seen a lot of the current crop of teen movies because there's only so much time and there's nothing that really drives me to do it.

Curtis Armstrong

I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.

Leelee Sobieski

When I started writing, there was nothing about zombies. It was all teen movies, which to me are scarier than zombies, but that's another story.

Max Brooks