In the film “Towelhead,” Summer Bishil plays 13-year-old Jasira, a Lebanese-American girl navigating through her adolescence, including challenges with identity, sexual awakening and self-esteem.
In our interview, Summer, who made the film at age 18, and is now 20, talks about a number of her perspectives on her work.
“Acting is a way for me to just [...]

“It is important to remember that just because something bad happens to you, it doesn’t mean you are bad. You are still entitled to every possible happiness in life.”
Elizabeth Smart, who was abducted and imprisoned in 2002, is now a 20-year-old music major at Brigham Young University.
A drifter named Brian David Mitchell kidnapped Elizabeth, then [...]

From news article, Los Angeles Times :
Photo: Evelyn Espinoza, 17, reacts as she is named winner of Merrill Lynch/NFTE Greater Los Angeles Regional Youth Business Plan Competition, by Garrett Gin, right, Director Communications and Public Affairs, Merrill Lynch & Co.
When she was 8 years old, Evelyn Espinoza sold bubble gum and other candy door-to-door in [...]

From Now magazine [UK] :
Christina Ricci says she sought medical help in the past to help deal with an eating disorder.
‘I’ve had my own share of problems, including anorexia and depression,’ she confesses.
But the actress, 28, says she overcame her problems with the help of a psychiatrist.
‘These are things you can’t always deal with alone, [...]

“I have never been a fan of learning in a classroom. Inside a laboratory or a garage, I always wanted to know more, but never inside a classroom.”
That quote is from Caltech physicist Caolionn O’Connell, PhD, from the site for the PBS program Einstein’s Big Idea.
Speaking of Einstein: he was expelled from school (in 1894) [...]