Tavi Gevinson Quotes
I'm not exactly in a position where I get to be super-picky about the roles I get. But I would also never want to be a part of something that I think is poor in taste or doesn't align with what I believe in.
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
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'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.
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I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
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Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
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And I don't believe that women can successfully have it all. I really don't.
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Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
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If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.
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I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.
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In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.
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Some people believe they chose homosexuality, and some believe they didn't. Who's to say one is wrong? It's not fair to generalize anyone's sexuality or walk of life.
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I think female-centric films shouldn't be only about thriller or horror. Angelina Jolie has been doing all kinds of stuff.
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I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.
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I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that.
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I've always wanted to release a song that could actually touch someone and help them through a tough time.
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I love being on the road, but to make a living as a road comic, you have to be on it most weeks out of the year. That's just too much for me. But I would love to be such a successful road comic that I don't have to go on it every week.
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The ego being shattered is not what frightens me - that can be useful for writing - but the ego being inflated is sort of like it dying of gout.
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[Wave of bestselling conservative commentators] it's kind of like reading The Power Of Positive Thinking, or any other advice or how-to book. All they do is reassure people of their basic opinions, and then they can continue to act like they've always acted. I'd say it's time to move on to something else, but I don't know what it would be.
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I'm not exactly in a position where I get to be super-picky about the roles I get. But I would also never want to be a part of something that I think is poor in taste or doesn't align with what I believe in.
