Charles Bock Quotes

I was an unhappy teenager, and there's just no way around it.

Charles Bock

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• I started as a teenager going up on commercials.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Up
  • Teenager
  • Going

• I have a nice smile, pretty lips, and big round cheeks. They help me look like a teenager.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Help
  • Pretty
  • Me

• As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Passion

• I was a teenager with braces and into sporty dresses with bright colors and cut-outs. For awhile, I really experimented with what I wanted to do. Some really extreme things, I recall.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Teenager
  • Dresses
  • Colors

• In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Different
  • Teenager
  • Very

• I don't really feel like I need to be a teenager ever again.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Need

• My favourite author as a child and teenager, and who I still re-read now, is K. M. Peyton. She writes very truthfully; sometimes I'm not sure if I've actually done things or just experienced them in her books.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Books
  • Teenager
  • Experienced

• When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Love

• I was a pretty difficult teenager.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Pretty
  • Difficult
  • Teenager

• If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Money
  • Business
  • Giving

• If I had been told to get out of the street as a teenager, there would have been a distinct possibility that I might have smarted off. But, I wouldn't have expected to be shot.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Teenager
  • Street
  • Shot

• 'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Time
  • Knowledge
  • Successful

• The Grimm collections were never intended for children. Not because kids were excluded, but because the division we make today of children's literature didn't exist then. The idea of protecting children from tales with violence didn't occur until the earlier part of the 19th century.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Today

• Konosuke Matsushita was a visionary entrepreneur. He started working very young as a teenager, and he eventually created Panasonic to become a truly global company.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Young
  • Company
  • Teenager

• When I was a teenager, my idol was the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. He's the only person I've ever asked for an autograph.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Person
  • Teenager
  • Only

• I definitely feel like kids do look up to me as a potential role model. It's an honor, but it can also be a burden. I may be on TV, but I'm also a teenager. I don't get it right every time. But I always do my absolute best to stay above board in every way. My fans inspire me to be a better person.

  

  Nathan Kress
  • Up
  • Time
  • May

• Our job as friends, mentors, parents, and writing coaches is not to write anyone's college essay. That's cheating. Plus, it sends a discouraging message to the teenager that he or she can't be trusted with this important assignment. Trust the student to write the essay, but verify that it gets done. Gentle editing and proofreading are allowed.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Done

• When I was a teenager, I experimented a lot with hair colour, and the result was just awful.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Hair
  • Teenager
  • Result

• I came in the Dawson's Creek era; it was all about tiny guys who looked like teenagers, and I haven't looked like a teenager ever. So I was, like, auditioning to be their dads. At 25.

  

  Jon Hamm
  • Teenager

• It is such a special feeling to win a grand prix.

  

  Jenson Button
  • Feeling

• I've always been comfortable working with women and I've had two happy marriages. Draw what conclusions you like from that.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Women
  • Happy
  • Working

• I think that there are quite a few acts which have stayed with the basic feelings and that's good. And I see something of a swing back to that. For example there are quite a few people copying my early stuff now. Like it's become a reference point or something.

  

  Van Morrison
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• I have never had so much fun as in Montreal. I taught the kids French, I baby-sat, I went to school, I was a receptionist at a hairdresser's, I danced and drank all night. I found that the more you do, the more you have time to do... it's weird, non?

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Time
  • School
  • Kids

• I was an unhappy teenager, and there's just no way around it.

  

  Charles Bock
  • Teenager