Quotes About Challenges

I find aspects of the industry tedious and hard to manage.

You know, writing isn't easy. It's tedious. Ideas have a gestation period, and after a while, it becomes difficult.

Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course has a very demanding layout that requires you to be accurate off the tee and avoid a number of well-placed water hazards on some of the holes.

By no means do we think, 'Oh, it's cool to be a teen mom.' I definitely don't think that it's cool.

As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.

It's hard being homeless at any age, but at 16 years old? I can't even imagine. When you're a homeless teen, how do you build a future or have any sort of life?

Before my teen years, I was losing my hearing pretty quickly, and I was getting very, very angry. I was beginning to become an angry person because of that.

Teen boys are a huge mess.

I'm so fascinated by the concept of teen pregnancy for some reason. Not that I condone it or promote it, but it's just a very real thing in our country and culture.

Doesn't matter whether it's a teen girl who's pregnant, hasn't told her parents, or an elderly couple dealing with one of them being diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Those are real people to me. Those are the people I dealt with every single day.

I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.

'Teen Moms!' I started watching them like the first two seasons, and I stopped. I stopped because they are too young. I feel sorry for them. And I didn't watch that show 'Hoarders.' That thing would made my skin crawl.

When I was in the 12th grade, I got my girlfriend pregnant. I just got out of school, she was a 10th-grader. I'm a teen parent, and I'm at a point where I'm like, 'Man I've got to do something.'

I love telling teen stories where the characters are experiencing things for the first time - the stakes feel really high.

Being bullied was the most difficult part of my early teen years.

During my teen years, I just really started to get anxiety. I would get stage fright when I would do certain speaking engagements and I always would get through them, but it was a really nerve-racking and hard thing to do.

I've had a lot of compulsions throughout my life which mainly started as a teen around the time I was doing exams.

You start getting hit with some very interesting situations in life - you as a parent - when they approach that teenage area, which is frightening because you still have memories of that age and the things you were doing at that age... Please don't do what I did.

We put too much on contemporary dancers. A lot of them cannot change styles; a lot of them can't do anything else other than run around the stage reaching and stretching in anguish to somebody off camera that I never understand who it is. But it's the teenage angst they have to live with.

My teenage life was a little strange.

I just wanted to do something about the teenage experience; it's such a wonderful and horrible time of life.

I'm doing 'I Hate My Teenage Daughter' with Katie Finneran and Jaime Pressly.

I don't know anybody that has a teenage son or daughter who at some point hasn't been like, 'God, I hate them' just under their breath. It's not meant to be literal. It's funny.

I have insecurity problems like every teenage girl, but you have to work through them.