Tavi Gevinson Quotes
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I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.
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I don't like people cleaning my room.
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Well I love preppy style; I like J. Crew for guys.
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When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.
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But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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A guy running, you know, fifteen, twenty stallions that are two years of age, never been touched by a human before, and you've got to start castrating them, that's pretty intimidating.
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Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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The whole experience on 'Grown Ups 2' was like going to adult summer camp.
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If you feel like snacking, stock up on almonds, walnuts and cranberries.
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Discovering L.A., in particular in the early '80s, was pretty spectacular; it was fun and carefree, and there was not nearly as much traffic as exists today. It was very much the last gasps of the Beach Boys' ideal view of L.A.: sun, the beach, cars, blondes, etc.
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One of my favorite films is 'Pretty Woman.'
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I'd really like to work with Gwen Stefani and Cee Lo.
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I try not to look any further ahead than the next cup of tea. You never know if that cuppa will come or not, do you?
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People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.
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What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
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With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.
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A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
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I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.
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I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.
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I started 'American Born Chinese' as a mini-comic. I would write and draw a chapter, photocopy a hundred or so copies at the corner photocopy store, and then try to sell them on consignment through local comics shops. If I could sell maybe half a dozen, I'd be doing okay.
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I try not to do anything I don't like, so I stay motivated pretty easily.
