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I inherited my weight problem from my mum. She was always on diets. If there was a box of chocolates in the house, she'd eat half a chocolate, then put the other half back. She loved me, but she did encourage me to diet in my teens. Lesley Nicol

All generations of teens have it hard, I think. Each society and century has its struggles that the others can't compare to. Lindsay Pearce

Think Society Others Teens Struggles Generations Century Hard Each Compare

To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies. Lionel Blue

Birthday Enemies Wish Teens Surprise Than Nicer

I think teens are drawn to these speculative books that portray what might happen and what could happen. Lois Lowry

Think Teens Books Drawn Could Happen Might Portray Speculative

I first read 'Madame Bovary' in my teens or early twenties. Lydia Davis

First Teens Madame Read Twenties Early

John Fahey, thought during his lifetime to be possibly more than a little crazy, was the author of some thirty albums of gnomically introverted droning guitar instrumentals, which I listened to heavily in my teens and twenties; I even produced an hour or so of banjo music in an imitative John Fahey style. Madison Smartt Bell

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What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point. Malorie Blackman

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Book sales and teens reading is always a fantastic thing, but we should also be celebrating and consuming the huge wealth of U.K. and U.K.-based writing and illustrating talent. Authors such as Charlie Higson, Darren Shan, Holly Smale, Tanya Byrne, Catherine Johnson, Sophie Mckenzie, to name but a few. Malorie Blackman

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I saw a photo of a Christian Lacroix couture dress when I was in my teens and decided right then that that's how I wanted to look on my wedding day. In my mind, that's what angels looked like. Margherita Missoni

Day Mind Christian Teens Saw Photo Dress Angels Wedding Like Look Looked How Couture Wanted Decided Then Right

When I began modelling in my late teens, I started to earn a lot of money very, very quickly, but I'd never been shown how to manage it properly. Marie Helvin

Money Earn Late Late Teens Teens Properly Never How Been Lot Began Very Quickly Modelling Manage Shown Started

In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war. Mark Burnett

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If we ever head down the American path of banning certain books or turning the editorial process into one of censorship, we will risk turning teens off books and sending them elsewhere - to their X-Boxes, for instance. To the Internet. And they won't ever come back to books. Matt Haig

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A surprising number of teens I meet in rougher schools around the country find refuge in novels and creative writing. It's not always the usual suspects either, the high achievers. Matt de la Pena

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It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should. Matthew Tobin Anderson

Book Believe Teens Kind Adult Insulting Than Different Different Kind Should

I've never really socialized; I've always been anti-social and preferred to be at home. I was never, even my late teens and early twenties, into clubs and parties and stuff like that. Megan Fox

Home Late Late Teens Teens Never Stuff Like Parties Always Been Clubs Preferred Really Twenties Even Socialized Early

Before my teens, my contemporaries were reading Tolkien and were absorbed by his works, but try as I might, I could not be drawn in, perhaps as something in me resists the epic, medieval-feeling fantasy. Michael Portillo

Me Try Reading Before Teens Drawn Something Could Absorb Perhaps Contemporaries Were His Epic Might Fantasy Works Tolkien

My parents, Mary Agnes Smith and Rowland Smith, both had to work since their early teens, she in the holiday boarding house of her mother and he in his father's market garden in Marton Moss, a village on the south side of Blackpool, just north of Saint Anne's-on-Sea. Michael Smith

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