The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.
~By Armistead Maupin ~
I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
~By Barry Corbin ~
I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.
~By Russell Banks ~
Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits.
~By Richard Foreman ~
At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant.
~By Martin Yan ~
I was having my teens in my 30s.
~By Julie Walters ~
I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.
~By Spalding Gray ~
When we recorded our first album sixteen track machines were the thing.
~By John Deacon ~
I had this talent for these stupid little teenage songs.
~By Paul Anka ~
Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.
~By Chanakya ~
Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were.
~By Tony Hillerman ~
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.
~By James Stephens ~
When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.
~By Morgan Freeman ~
I am drawn to writing and directing as it is most like the feeling I had when I was a teenager with my puppet theatre. You are more in control of everything and involved in every aspect of production, so more challenged and fulfilled.
~By Richard E. Grant ~
Most movies are made today for teenage boys. Once in a while a good one comes along.
~By Richard Widmark ~
So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.
~By Duncan Sheik ~
When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.
~By Patrick White ~
When you come to Christ as a real young person, I think when you become a teen-ager either you rebel or you search, doubt, and wonder.
~By Jerry B. Jenkins ~
Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.
~By Cameron Diaz ~
The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, these are just some of the people who threatened to sue if we used their songs.
~By Colin Mochrie ~
More teenagers go to movies or rent a tape of a movie than sit down and watch sitcoms on television.
~By Mindy Cohn ~
We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic.
~By Gavin Rossdale ~
When 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.
~By Rihanna ~
We must, however, note that what are usually called the high religions made their appearance within about twenty-five hundred years - most of them within fifteen hundred years.
~By Kenneth Scott Latourette ~
We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free.
~By John Walters ~
I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.
~By Wanda Jackson ~
Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood.
~By John Edward Redmond ~
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.
~By Robyn Hitchcock ~
In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity.
~By Henry Mayhew ~
Since she got a cause and stopped being funny. I think she's real funny, but lately it's all been hearts and flowers and tears and saving teenagers and creating a role model. And that ain't funny. No giggles there.
~By Andy Richter ~
Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt these records were better than what my own culture was turning out.
~By Roy Harper ~
I'm happy to be on a show that's bridging that gap of 'Okay, I'm not a teenager anymore, I'm a man.'
~By Milo Ventimiglia ~
And in nineteen seventy two I almost wasn't, on the team, but I knew about it just before Olympic Games for three months before this why this is was not very good for me. I'd been ready to go, you know.
~By Olga Korbut ~
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.
~By Lionel Blue ~
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.
~By Dean Kamen ~
The difficult thing about a pop record is that you're given guidelines: it has to have 3 choruses, and then it must be between 3 minutes fifteen seconds and three minutes forty-five seconds.
~By Duncan Sheik ~
Very good wine was bought at ten pounds per pipe, the contract price; but the superior quality was fifteen pounds; and some of this was not much inferior to the best London Madeira.
~By William Bligh ~
I would sell 2 million records, a million went to teenagers and a million went to the adults. So, when The Beatles became so popular, I lost a million to the teenagers, but I was still selling a million to the adults.
~By Bobby Vinton ~
Yes, but I don't think of the Teen Angel as of an age.
~By Frankie Avalon ~
Normal kids in their teens want to go and date girls and do mischievous things, your hormones are jumping around, but I stayed in my bedroom in search of something.
~By Grandmaster Flash ~
I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.
~By Cameron Diaz ~
If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near fourty.
~By Chris Rock ~
When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.
~By John Cleese ~
My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.
~By George Weinberg ~
I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.
~By Gyorgy Legeti ~
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
~By Maya Angelou ~
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one.
~By Fred G. Gosman ~
The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property.
~By John Moody ~
When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes.
~By John Boyd Orr ~
I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
~By Dana Snyder ~
T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice.
~By Betty Buckley ~
I remember when I was in my late teens just getting rid of lots of records, realizing I only ever listened to them when I was reading, or watching TV, or doing something else.
~By Jonny Greenwood ~
I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital.
~By Elizabeth Wurtzel ~
I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately.
~By Molly Ringwald ~
I don't like being compared to anyone or being in a class with someone. I'm a teen actress and therefore I'm competing against Hilary Duff. We're different people like everyone else.
~By Amanda Bynes ~
I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number.
~By Robert Indiana ~
Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
~By Edith Sitwell ~
And from that nineteen sixty four, this was my goal to go to Olympic Games. And I realized what does it mean, Olympic Games, like big celebration.
~By Olga Korbut ~
Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.
~By Christopher Dawson ~
I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.
~By Nigella Lawson ~
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.
~By Johnny Depp ~
Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.
~By Dave Barry ~
An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.
~By Andrew Greeley ~
My name is Ryan White. I am sixteen years old. I have hemophilia, and I have AIDS.
~By Ryan White ~
I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad.
~By Jimmy Smith ~
The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
~By Jackson Browne ~
Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library - all this keeps me quite busy!
~By Nigel Dennis ~
I've had this reoccurring dream for the last ten to fifteen years.
~By Tommy Tune ~
We won a contest at the teen fair in Vancouver and the first prize was a recording contract and we recorded at a radio station on the stairway, and we did a record and it got put out.
~By Tommy Chong ~
I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.
~By Nicholas Sparks ~
I won't play for a penny less than fifteen hundred dollars.
~By Honus Wagner ~
I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.
~By Shelley Berman ~
When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.
~By Herbie Hancock ~
Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.
~By Bert Campaneris ~
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.
~By James McAvoy ~
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!
~By Philip Roth ~
When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when I was still 17, not out of high school.
~By Dave Lombardo ~
Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.
~By Arnold J. Toynbee ~
I hate it when people call me a teen queen.
~By Lindsay Lohan ~
At seventeen, I knew the end of a dream... I would never be a schoolboy again.
~By King Hussein ~
My friends are Peter Gabriel, Bruce Springsteen, and we're singing about mortality, getting older. It's an interesting time.
~By Sting ~
You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
~By Patrick Leahy ~
In less than eighteen months, it prepared a first draft which it submitted to the General Assembly and which, at the end of one hundred sessions of elevated, often impassioned discussion, was adopted in the form of thirty articles on December 10, 1948.
~By Rene Cassin ~
In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.
~By Desmond Tutu ~
Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar.
~By Leif Garrett ~
When I was a teenager I loved acting, but I really just loved it for myself. I didn't like the fact that anyone else saw the work I was doing.
~By Joseph Gordon-Levitt ~
If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake.
~By George Ripley ~
It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
~By Randal Kleiser ~
The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary.
~By Mary MacLane ~
I know, it's true. I've played these tortured teenagers. I can't wait to shed that image.
~By Claire Danes ~
I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.
~By Michael Jackson ~
I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I'm privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again.
~By Jeffrey Archer ~
I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play shows.
~By Buzz Osborne ~
I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.
~By Solomon Burke ~
American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
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