#teenage

I heard a young black pianist. He was a teenager, I was eight years old, and he was playing boogie-woogie, and he just knocked me out. He thought he was alone in the old barn on the beat-up upright piano, but I was hiding in the corner so he wouldn't see me. ↗

— Mike Stoller

#barn #black #corner #eight #heard

When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing. When I moved to New York, I started to realize that I wanted people to see the stuff that I was doing, and I wanted it to mean something to them. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#anyone #doing #else #fact #i

I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager. ↗

— Clara Hughes

#exaggeration #i #teenager #without

It seemed weird calling a teenager 'sir' but I'd learned to be careful with immortals. They tended to get offended easily. Then, they blew stuff up. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#humor #immortals #teenager #humor

My dad liked a lot of Motown, but I didn't listen to it until my teenage years. ↗

— John Legend

#i #liked #listen #lot #motown

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

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

If you want to have a more pleasant,cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, emphatic, consistent, loving parent. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#teenager #change

When adults say, 'Teenagers think they are invincible' with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail. ↗

— John Green

#teenagers #change