Marian Wright EdelmanTeen To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can’t do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20. – Marian Wright Edelman Fathers Quotes Kids Quotes Mothers Quotes Parents Quotes Patient Quotes Popular Quotes Reach Quotes Struggling Quotes Teen Quotes Teenagers Quotes After ‘Freaky Friday,’ another teen movie was not on my playlist. I first read Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ as a teen in school, like you did. I read the book alone, eating lunch at my locker, neatly scored oranges my mother divided into five lines with a circle at the top, so my fingers could dig more easily into the orange skin. To this day, the smell of oranges reminds me of ‘Mockingbird.’
Sonia Sotomayor All judges have cases that touch our passions deeply, but we all struggle constantly with remaining impartial. – Sonia Sotomayor
Alex Gibney Sports are the ultimate secular religion. Instead of being worried about whether your kids will be okay or how your job is going, you have your team, and you can focus all of your angst and your hopes and dreams on your team. I am in no way saying it always relieves any of this! – Alex Gibney
Lili Reinhart I don’t drink coffee, so I have been known to have a Coca Cola on set at 6:30 A.M. in order to wake myself up. – Lili Reinhart
John T Chambers I had an issue with dyslexia before they understood what dyslexia was. One of my teachers, Mrs. Anderson, taught me to look at it like a curveball. The ball breaks the same way every time. Once you get used to it, you can handle it pretty well. – John T Chambers
John McEnroe Why don’t they go back to wood racquets? Then we would see the best tennis to be played. – John McEnroe
Cress Williams My first job was television. I got to where I wanted to go, but through a little bit of a detour. When I first started working in film and television, I hated myself – I didn’t like what I was doing at all. All I could think of was, ‘I’m overacting. Be smaller.’ I started to do that, but that was not fun. I felt confined doing film and TV. – Cress Williams
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