#teenage

I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era. ↗

— Andy Grove

#during #era #fantasy #growing #growing up

When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality. ↗

— Audrey Tautou

#childhood #complex #ever #had #happen

At the time I was growing up in the business I was very well established within the industry as a child actor and as I grew up and turned into a teenager there was less and less work. ↗

— Morgan Brittany

#business #child #child actor #established #grew

I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time. ↗

— Winona Ryder

#doubts #freak #frightened #further #had

We were the wrong age for love and yet it was all we could think about. ↗

— Brendan Cowell

#teenage-love #age

He'd been given an assignment to write about teen beauty pageants [...], which he'd accepted because he enjoyed blood sports as much as the next person. ↗

— David Baldacci

#ambition #beauty-pageants #ruthlessness #sarcasm #satire

I didn't have any of those good assets to have successful teenage years. It was hard. And what saved me was definitely my whole family. I knew where I was coming from and where I was going to. ↗

— Celine Dion

#assets #coming #definitely #family #going

... And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through... ↗

— David Bowie

#music #teenagers #change

I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen, and so I swung into action and wrote a poem, and it was miserable, for that's how I thought poetry worked: you digested experience and shat literature. [from "Mingus at the Showplace"] ↗

— William Matthews

#poetry #teenagers #experience

Leah looked at her parents, lost in their own fantasies, and decided that the three of them were a pretty pathetic family - but she wasn't sure who was more pathetic: the dateless girl spending the night of the big dance by herself in her bedroom, or the parents who foolishly believed a boy would arrive on their doorstep with flowers, a limo, and a promise to rescue their daughter from her solitude. ↗

— J.M. Reep

#family #shyness #teenager #family