Kara Lindsay Quotes

In junior high, I really wanted to be popular. Suddenly there were parties with boys, and I wanted to be part of that. There was a group of girls, and I wanted to be friends with them.

Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.

People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.

See, at a certain point it becomes cool to be boy crazy. That happens in sixth grade, and it gives you so much social status, particularly in an all-girls school, if you can go up and talk to boys.

I think that like most girls in high school, I just mirrored what was around me.

I think I was a pretty normal student; I just followed most of my friends.

I started writing stories in sixth grade. But writing wasn't cool, like being good at sports, or being part of the in crowd, or winning fights on the playground.

'True School' is one great big reminder. It's a reminder to everybody in that middle school bracket that was in school when playing hard to get was out.

I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with peer pressure.

When I was young, running with a gang was a cool thing to do; that's how you get popular; that's how you get the girls.

Obviously, all of us have been influenced by those around us.

Where I come from, you don't really dance, you know. I think I was at the age, where, I suppose, I wanted to do what all me friends were doing. I gave up dancing for a while, and then I realised I wasn't as good at football as I thought I was.

High school was so much fun, and it wasn't a wreck at all.

And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad.

Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.

I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.

When people are free to do as we please, they usually imitate each other.

Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.

Growing up, sports was my outlet, my way to portray a personality. I was very shy around people but, through sports, something I was good at, I was able to make friends.

I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.

I enjoyed being involved in team sports and making close friendships.

Kids get influenced by other kids.

I think a lot of young kids at school are very conscious of trying to keep credibility in case they kind of stand out in a crowd and get bullied by trying to stay cool and stuff. And my whole thing, all the way through school, was I was just a goof... I didn't care.

I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.