Tavi Gevinson Quotes
I really like looking at what's new in my favourite designers' stores, even if I don't buy anything.
Quotes to Explore
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I am a man of tomorrow, but I also live my past.
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I like sitting close to windows.
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I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.
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To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing.
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
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Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
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We're seeing a crazy appetite for people to acquire and invest in British businesses.
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You have to treat Hollywood like it's your boyfriend - he's there all the time.
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I know it's a lot harder for women who don't have enough help, but the truth is, no matter how much money you have, if you want to stay involved with your children and don't want to lose being a primary parent to them, you're still in the game.
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I look at WorldstarHipHop in the morning, Bossip, Global Grind, and everything in between, but it's all so quick, I don't even think about it. And I've never been a fan of lyrical or socially conscious rap music.
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No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
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I think it's cool people love to hate me.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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I've turned into one of those people who go jogging in parks that I used to hate.
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When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.
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My customers are successful workingwomen.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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I do or die, but I never cancel out.
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I was very driven in high school. I worked a bunch of odd jobs. I never partied. I never drank. I was just a theater geek who was obsessed with movies.
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Everything's so accelerated now.
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I just keep happy and help the team when I get an opportunity.
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My mother often mailed me articles from 'Reader's Digest' about advances in DNA chemistry. No matter how I tried to explain it to her, she never grasped the concept that I could have been writing those articles, that something I had invented made most of those DNA discoveries possible.
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You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.
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I really like looking at what's new in my favourite designers' stores, even if I don't buy anything.
