As a member of the oldest slice of the Millennial generation, my teenage years spanned the late 1990s through the start of the new millennium. I spent that time watching a lot of MTV’s ‘Total Request Live’, ‘Dawson’s Creek’, and wearing out a dual VHS tape of ‘Titanic’.
It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring.
Fellini was a little lofty for a teenage boy, but certainly he was a huge influence.
My teenage years were pretty – I have regrets about those years. Obviously everyone knows that as a teenager it’s really confusing and your feelings are so raw.
My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart – I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade.
My mother had me when she was 15. My father died before I was born. So my mother was a teenage widow, and she used herself as her greatest example so I wouldn’t end up in her position.
When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.
The Teenage Cancer Trust does incredible work supporting and caring for teenagers and young adults with cancer, and it’s a cause that is really close to me and my family.
When I was young, I loved gymnastics, but I discovered when I was 15 that I wanted a teenage life.
At 16 I was living in the Congo, and, you know, it’s your teenage time. I really wanted to find a way to express myself, so I started to write songs in the Congo, and I think that’s why my music is quite open, with a lot of different influences.
By the time I was 12, I was reading my parents’ books because there weren’t teenage books then.
I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that’s where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.
I am Brianna Hildebrand; I play ‘Negasonic Teenage Warhead’. She is a 15 year old psychic – she reads the future – and she also is her own personal cannonball: she’s a warhead. So she runs at things and explodes at them, and she’s Colossus’ sidekick.
I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don’t have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.
Teenage readers also have a different relationship with the authors whose work they value than adult readers do. I loved Toni Morrison, but I don’t have any desire to follow her on Twitter. I just want to read her books.
When I was in high school, I had already kind of been working in the industry and had done a couple of acting jobs. There were definitely some girls that were either jealous or thought I was a snob. I was just trying to be a teenage girl and go to high school and have fun like everybody else!
Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.
You might say I was a passive atheist through my teenage years.
I was raised in New York and then moved to Miami in my teenage years, returning to New York later on.
I’ve been the teenage success, I’ve been homeless and driving around in my car and not knowing where to eat. You just want to keep working and learning, and I was doing that. If I hadn’t done ‘Wild Bill,’ I’m sure I would have acted in something else.
I’m quite disappointed that I’ll never relive my teenage years.
North Korea is the errant teenage child, aren’t they? Or toddler – they’re holding their breath until they get their way.
When you get to your teenage years, you want to find something that you identify with. It’s almost a slight rebellion; you don’t want to listen to what your parents listen to anymore; you want to find your own music. That, for me, was hearing the Fugees for the first time.
I write about what I know: teenage dating, overly charged sexuality, all the things that make you uncomfortable.
Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don’t remember the exact day or year, but I remember that reading S.E. Hinton’s ‘The Outsiders’ sparked my interest in writing.
For some in my generation, Sept. 11th was a moment of political awakening. For others, the Iraq War or the financial crisis or the rise of Obama were the major events of their teenage years that began to lay the foundation for their views.
During my teenage years, I rebelled and ate everything under the sun, but when I was 18 or 19, I became vegetarian-focused and got disgusted by meat.
I had a lot of friends, but none of them I felt super close with. Now that I’m older, I can look back on my teenage self and kind of see the things I did wrong and the things I did right, what affect they had on me, and what affect they had on other people. I can look at it in a much more conducive way to storytelling.
In my early teenage years I wasn’t doing well at school and I wasn’t really interested in a way. I knew I wasn’t going to go to uni or anything like that.
Some of my songs are positive and stuff, but some are about staring down at the ground and obsessing about stupid things, and it is teenage in a way.
I was very protected growing up. My dad was very strict with me. I was the oldest of four kids, and there are three girls. So I kind of paved the way of what it was like to raise a teenage daughter.
I didn’t have any relationships in my teenage years, as I felt I was not attractive enough.
Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.
The interesting thing about ‘True Blood’ is that its appeal is not contained to teenage girls. I get stopped in the street and questioned by 70-year-old men whose wives and daughters are making Bloody Marys and throwing ‘True Blood’ parties.
I was so thrilled that I was having a girl, because I just am so girly myself, but I think the teenage years are going to be very interesting.
While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.
In my teenage years, there was a lot of angst going on.
The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.
I’d change nothing in my career path. I was never built for being a handsome teenage star. That’s just not in my psyche, I think. I would have hated to have grown up famous.
I was raised in a deeply Catholic family. There was a sense that everything we were doing was to prepare ourselves for an afterlife in heaven. In my teenage years, that became less important to me. Eventually, that turned into agnosticism, which became atheism.
A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn’t make it any less weird though.
I’m like a teenage boy – I eat like one and know as much cooking as one. Neither do I bake, and I can always be counted on to bring the wine to a pot luck.
I never got to go to prom or homecoming or a lot of the typical teenage stuff. But, if you think about it, I’ve gotten to go and meet different people and travel all over the world.
I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing ‘chick’ music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It’s part of the cultural dynamic, I guess.
A lot of the times, what girls go through when they’re growing up gets minimized. ‘Mean Girls’ marked the first time I saw teenage female aggression articulated well and with importance.
During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.
Throughout my teenage years or whatever, I’ve been so uncomfortable, or I’ve made mistakes and I’ve felt like I’m the only one who has done that.
I make movies for teenage boys. Oh dear, what a crime.
The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.
I am no prude, but when I watch comedy, I ask myself, ‘Who wrote this? A teenage boy in the locker room?’
I spent most of my teenage years in the National Theatre.
I taught at a cotillion. I was one of the teenage helpers when I was in high school. But we’re talking very basic.
There’s something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a middle-aged person. The further you get from childhood and the experience of the teenage years, the greater the danger of losing that wellspring.
Society, they look down on teenage moms and dads, but I think those people are just jealous because they’ll never know what it’s like to be raised by someone who’s still being raised.
I think the reason teenage fiction is so popular with adults is that adults hunger for narrative just as badly as teenagers do.
