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" I was a troubled teen and I was constantly looking for someone to throw me a rope. Those ropes are connections. They allow us to see that life exists beyond the little worlds we are currently a part of. "

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" Teen pregnancy went way down in the '90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception. "

" I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature. "

" Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood. "

" I try to write characters that are as real, emotionally and psychologically, as I can make them; I feel the same way about setting. This often means that I'm drawing from my experiences and observations. "

" Most people, almost everyone knows of a teen mom. Teen pregnancy rates are growing, and we need to bring awareness to that. "

" Youth comes but once in a lifetime. "

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Youth

Teen

Once

" We must tell girls their voices are important. "

" As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen. "

" I really liked 'Starter For Ten' because I grew up watching 1980s teen films like 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' and I've always wanted to play the underdog lead hero in a 1980s-inspired film. "

" With 'Delirium,' I had to spend time thinking about the political, social and religious structure of a different world. But it was a fun challenge. "

" In the public, it seems to be painted that when minorities get pregnant, they need to get abortions, especially when it comes to teen pregnancy. It's like, when black girls are pregnant, it's like a statistic, but when white girls get pregnant, they get a TV show. "

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Teen

" You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue. "

" You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is. "

" Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces. "

" My parents were pretty liberal, but they were still parents. I definitely had my teenage rebellion. "

" Adolescence is just one big walking pimple. "

" I was considered chubby as a teen. "

" The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers. "

" To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent. "

" When I was a teenager I would lock myself in the bathroom for hours, bouffanting my hair like Patty Duke and trying to recreate Barbra Streisand's flawless eyeliner, only to comb it all out and wash it all off before stepping out into the world a butchish bisexual teen. "

" As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too. "

" There are times I wish I was more conventional. I would get a husband and a baby and a big SUV in the 'burbs and be happy. But forging my own way - my career, my relationships with wonderful but troubled people - that's who I am. "

" Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18. "

" I think all artists are only interested in a couple of themes, really. I'm primarily interested in change and connection as being this restorative force. I write about them because that's what I think about in my own life. "

" I think if you ask people why they watch me, there would be some common thread among all of them that I'm somewhat of an awkward older sister. I have a teen, mostly female demographic. How that happened, I don't know. But I think they see me as some sort of bizarre role model, and I'll keep trying to do that for them. "

Grace Helbig

Teen

Know

" Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl. "

" Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves. "