adolescent interests Quotes

I was really into punk when I was about 14.

Stop…stop, that’s the next generation of fans… How dare you pass judgment on those 12-year-old girls who like vampires! They need to be encouraged because in six years they’ll be 18-year-old girls who like vampires and are into all sorts of goth-permissive and whatnot. Don’t Poo-poo it. There’s a plan, and it’s working.

When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.

I'm just a regular 16 year old kid. I make good grilled cheese and I like girls.

I think there are worse things for a teen to be enraptured with than 'Twilight.'

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.

I'm afraid that, in this chapter we must talk about sex in a very explicit manner, because we want to expand the Frontiers of Human Understanding and also we want to sell as many books as possible to adolescent boys.

I was obsessed with vampires when I was 13 or 14.

I was obsessed with girls when I was 13 years old; I wasn't really into books.

I've seen a lot of zombie films as a teenager, and I think teens in general, or teen boys, watch a lot of horror. There's a lot of morbidity that goes on in that age.

I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh.

The kids I knew growing up who worked on bikes all loved the smell of gas. It is the liquid agent for speed.

I didn't really like opera. I liked cheerleading and boys and, later, smoking. So my opera career was cut short when I was 15. My dad got sick, and we couldn't afford the lessons, so I stopped and became a cheerleader and wrecked my voice.

Contrary to what you might think, I don't spend every waking hour thinking about boys." "Just most waking hours?

I was very much into science when I was young - I wanted to be a marine biologist, then I wanted to be a doctor, and then something else, I was always changing. Acting didn't come up until much later, probably about 16 or 17. I thought, "Oh, I quite like this."

From the ages of 13 to 16, I loved makeup so much that I just wanted it on me all the time, and what I gravitated towards more was very heavy.

I seemed to have spent the whole time either reading, which I loved, or laughing, which I love, or fooling about, which I loved. There was the usual teenage angst: "Nobody understands me" and "I'm the only genius in the world" and all that stuff. But that didn't get very deep.

I was never a big reader as a kid. My imagination wasn't captured by books very often. It was captured more often by boys and partying and riding horses.