She was such a well-rounded teenager, having been a twirler, Future Farmers sweetheart, and secretary of Future Homemakers.

Harlan Ellison ( who began reading van Vogt as a teenager ) wrote, " Van was the first writer to shine light on the restricted ways in which I had been taught to view the universe and the human condition.

As a teenager he was his father ’ s amanuensis and was regularly seen debating theological issues with the learned men of the area.

The film, about an immoral teenager in a respectable small-town setting, was an international success.

" But the teenager made an impact on his first night at the London Coliseum, winning more laughs in his small role than the star, and he was quickly signed to a contract.

Jazz pianist Jim Martinez, who organized her birthday celebration at the Cypress Inn at Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, claims that according to Doris Day's current assistant, when Day was a teenager, she added two years to her age so she would be old enough to sing with big bands.

Although many of his works appeared in print while a teenager, it was the publication of " Light breaks where no sun shines ", published in 1934, that caught the attention of the literary world.

Thomas was a teenager when many of the poems for which he became famous were published: " And death shall have no dominion ", " Before I Knocked " and " The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower ".

Describing Morris as a teenager, Mark Singer wrote that he " read with a passion the forty-odd Oz books, watched a lot of television, and on a regular basis went with a doting but not quite right maiden aunt (" I guess you'd have to say that Aunt Roz was somewhat demented ") to Saturday matinées, where he saw such films as This Island Earth and Creature from the Black Lagoon — horror movies that, viewed again 30 years later, still seem scary to him.

Among the many inspirations for the film include The Three Stooges and other slapstick comedy films ; Ash's fights with his disembodied hand come from a film made by Spiegel as a teenager, entitled Attack of the Helping Hand, which was itself inspired by television commercials advertising Hamburger Helper.

She was introduced anonymously while still a teenager in the third book in the series and plays a larger role in several of the titles of the 1930s and 1940s.

He later stated on They Think It's All Over that as a teenager he idolised former England captain David Gower, who was playing for Leicestershire at the time.

The genre was also a heavy influence on more mainstream writers, such as Charles Dickens, who read Gothic novels as a teenager and incorporated their gloomy atmosphere and melodrama into his own works, shifting them to a more modern period and an urban setting, including Oliver Twist ( 1837-8 ), Bleak House ( 1854 ) ( Mighall 2003 ) and Great Expectations ( 1860 – 61 ).

As a teenager, Cukor frequently was taken to the New York Hippodrome by his uncle.

Chapman met Tomiczek when the teenager was a runaway from Liverpool.

* As a teenager, IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad was directly involved in the pro-Nazi New Swedish Movement ( Nysvenska Rörelsen ) until at least 1948, causing tensions when IKEA began opening stores in Israel, although one source has claimed that the movement was not pro-Nazi.

He was a main character in the first volume of X-Factor, and a star in flashback stories when he was a teenager in X-Men: The Hidden Years and X-Men: First Class.

Rousseau's choice of a Catholic vicar of humble peasant background ( plausibly based on a kindly prelate he had met as a teenager ) as a spokesman for the defense of religion was in itself a daring innovation for the time.

Styne attended Chicago Musical College, but before then he had already attracted attention of another teenager, Mike Todd, later a successful film producer, who commissioned him to write a song for a musical act that he was creating.

While Paganini was still a teenager in Livorno, a wealthy businessman named Livron lent him a violin, made by the master luthier Giuseppe Guarneri, for a concert.

When Cruz was a teenager, she began having an interest in acting after seeing the film Tie Me Up!

In addition, Sadassa Silvia is a character who claims that Ferris Fremont is actually a communist covert agent recruited by Sadassa's mother when Fremont was still a teenager.

Ludwig van Beethoven, Mozart's junior by fifteen years, was deeply influenced by his work, with which he was acquainted as a teenager.

According to Allmusic, Demartini was heavily influenced by Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick as a teenager.

Ellard's first music contributions began in the late 1970s as a teenager when he was influenced by groups that emerged from the early United Kingdom and Australian punk movement.

As a teenager she worked in live theatre and, influenced by the music of the great dance halls of Paris, she began composing music for the theatre.

Karl Edward Wagner was influenced by " The Worm Ouroboros " as a teenager.

In the early 1980s when he was a teenager he was influenced by the punk subculture, and bands like The Stooges and Joy Division.

One of the factors that influenced Piper's acceptance of the role was the fact she was able to relate the character of Rose to her own experiences as a teenager.

As a teenager, the younger Manley served as president of the Young Liberals Association in S, D and G and was influenced by the leadership of not only his grandfather, but of other prominent Liberals, including Lester B. Pearson, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Lucien Lamoureux and Ed Lumley.

Boag's performances have influenced many later performers and comedians, most notable of whom is Steve Martin, who studied Boag's humor and timing while working at Disneyland as a teenager.

As a teenager he was strongly influenced by the Belgian underground scene of new wave, electro and EBM embodied by artists such as Front 242, Neon Judgement and The Klinik.

As a teenager, he was influenced by British synth pop – in particular singers such as Marc Almond, Alison Moyet and Boy George, and was also strongly influenced by underground stars Diamanda Galás, Rozz Williams, Divine and Klaus Nomi and American singers including Nina Simone, Otis Redding, and Donny Hathaway.

Tarrant's charity work, for which he received an OBE in 2004 includes: being an ambassador for the homeless charity, Centrepoint ; Trustee / Patron of The New School at West Heath for disadvantaged children ( the school previously being a private school for girls that Diana, Princess of Wales attended ); patron of Milly's Fund, set up in memory of murdered Surrey teenager " Milly " Dowler ; patron of the Phoenix Centre for children with special needs.

Clifford has received death threats demanding that he sever links with the five men who were suspected of the killing of black teenager Stephen Lawrence.

On January 1, 2008, the YCJA's Privacy clause was tested when several users of the Internet social networking site Facebook posted the identities of murdered Toronto teenager Stefanie Rengel and her killers ( Melissa Todorovic and David Bagshaw ) in defiance of both the publication ban and the fact that the police had not yet received the consent of Rengel's family to release her name to the media.

As a teenager, Mariano, his nephew Juan Bautista Alvarado ( 1809 – 1882 ), and José Castro ( 1808 – 1860 ) received special instruction from Governor Pablo Vicente de Solá.

In Ecuador, the quince starts with the arrival of the teenager, accompanied by her father, who is then received by her mother and other relatives and friends.

Another measure of her success is anecdotal — on Valentine's Day 1977, Ian received 461 Valentine cards, having indicated in the lyrics to " At Seventeen " that she never received any as a teenager.

He received his high school education in Germany and immigrated to the United States as a teenager in 1961.

According to the Epilogue of Han ( 續漢書 ) by Sima Biao ( 司馬彪 ), when he was a teenager, Kong Rong paid a visit to an official named Li Ying, who received no one but the very eminent and his own relatives.

Stained Class received unfortunate negative attention due to the infamous 1990 civil action brought against the band by the family of a teenager, James Vance, who entered a suicide pact with his friend Ray Belknap after listening to " Better By You, Better Than Me " on 23 December 1985.

Upon becoming a teenager, Nolan received his education from the Central Remedial Clinic School, Mount Temple Comprehensive School and at Trinity College, Dublin.

Redfield joined the USAF as a teenager, quickly becoming an accomplished pilot as well as a top marksman, but received a dishonourable discharge in the mid-90s for disobeying a direct order.

As a teenager, he made contact with and received encouragement from Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and other writers of the Beat Generation.

Some criticism was leveled at Katz when he posted an article about an e-mail message he purportedly received from a teenager named " Junis " in Afghanistan who had just rejoined the Internet in late 2001.