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I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.
Lady GagaI just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.
Greta ThunbergWhen I was 16… I worked in a pet store. And they fired me because… they had three snakes in there, and one day I braided them.
Steven WrightWhen I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.
Haruki MurakamiConfidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.
Haruki MurakamiI think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.
Richard BransonAt 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon.
Herbert HooverWhen I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines.
Margaret AtwoodWhen I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.
J. K. RowlingWhen I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.
RihannaIn fact, you couldn’t give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.
J. K. RowlingI remember the first time I heard a teenager say ‚LOL.‘ Just what? But it means ‚laugh.‘ Why don’t you just laugh? What are you doing?
J. K. Rowling