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"Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses."
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"I was fifteen.I was bored.I was miserable."
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"It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything."
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"Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you."
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"I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with."
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"Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice."
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"It's kind of sad, if you think about it. Like there's no continuity in people at all. Like something ruptures when you hit twelve, or thirteen, or whatever the age is when you're no longer a kid but a "young adult, and after that you're a totally different person. Maybe even a less happy person. Maybe even a worse one."
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"Four months in the life of a seventeen-year-old is the stuff of swings and roundabouts, ... Never again in your life do you possess the capacity for such total personality overhaul."
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"The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the dominant struggle of adolescence."
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"Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses."
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"At seventeen, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you became as vital as oxygen. Adults, light years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked "this too shall pass" - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something that everyone recalled as a mild nuisance, completely forgettingone how painful it had been at the time."
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"A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others."
Love
"A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who's cool and what to wear."
Politics
"For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared."
Actor
"We are all searching for some form of family or foundation - for a place we can feel safe and secure."
Family
"If we could all just laugh at ourselves, in hard times or good times, it would be an incredible world."
World
"But I've really learned you don't have to fit in. No matter where you go, you're always going to be you and if they don't like you for who you are, then what's the point of being someone else?"
Being
"I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class."
Ideas
"I love talking about movies that mean something to me."
Love
"I think it's an individual thing. Your mountains are my molehills."
Mountains
"Adolescence isn't just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses."
Adolescence
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