Quotes About Adolescence

It was very bad for me that my deafness happened at around the same time as I discovered my clitoris.

Most people don't go to work and beat up a 13-year-old. It's a really freaky thing.

Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up--thatis our new work, and it is total. Mere instruction will not suffice.

I wasn't the brightest kid, not by a long shot. I was interested in football, in girls, in getting my work done with the least amount of effort.

I used to work, part time, in a deli, in those days when your parents made you work just so you should know what work was like. And you'd make 4, 5, 6, ten dollars.

I wanted to make a body of work that looked at what it felt like to be a boy going through adolescence.

Barking hard work, being a boy.

When I was 14 years old, I was by no means trying to work professionally at all.

I was a good student. By 8th grade, you've basically learned everything. By senior year, we was drinking, we was kickin' it, we was rapping. It wasn't really like business, hard work.

Probably when I was about 16 or 17 I started writing. I wouldn't call it poetry, even though I've referred to it as poetry a couple times. But I don't think that's right. It was more scribblings and stream of consciousness.

I was small until I was 15, then grew about 12 inches in a year and built up my strength in the gym.

I've always been a late bloomer. My body developed late. From ninth to 10th grade, I grew like 3 inches. Just kind of stretched out. I was like 6-1, grew to 6-4 in 10th grade.

I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl.

My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.

We lived in a council flat, and I spent most of my time on estates. My mum was very strict. I used to hate it.

My parents were super strict, so I didn't have a lot of freedom to hang out at parties or anything like that. I didn't get invited, and I didn't have many friends.

Growing up, we were in a strict household, so we weren't allowed to have posters of our crushes and stuff on the wall - mine was Cristina Applegate.

Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

It often strikes me that the actors in high school movies look too old.

There's something about strip malls that just reeks of my childhood.

When I was 15, I was wearing sandals and corduroys, Guernsey, striped pullover, a beard that was hardly there, shades and a beret, and the goal was hanging out.

Seventh grade was the first time I dyed my hair, and I went to school with red and black stripes, so I looked like a zebra.

When I was growing up, man, I didn't know myself. I was striving for respect. Trying to be cool for the girls. I wasn't the biggest dude and I'm a nice guy.

The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street, but the school district I was in included some fine neighborhoods - so I got to know a couple of the kids from those places and went to their houses and experienced such culture shock.