Tavi Gevinson Quotes

I really like looking at what's new in my favourite designers' stores, even if I don't buy anything.

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• I am a man of tomorrow, but I also live my past.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Live
  • Past
  • Tomorrow

• I like sitting close to windows.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Like
  • Sitting
  • Windows

• I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.

  

  M.I.A.
  • War
  • Happy
  • Society

• '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.

  

  Patina Miller
  • School
  • Hair
  • Couple

• Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Music
  • Country
  • Soul

• We're seeing a crazy appetite for people to acquire and invest in British businesses.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Invest

• You have to treat Hollywood like it's your boyfriend - he's there all the time.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Time
  • You
  • Boyfriend

• 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.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Women
  • Children
  • Money

• 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.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Music
  • Think
  • Morning

• 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.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Men
  • Society
  • Freedom

• I've turned into one of those people who go jogging in parks that I used to hate.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Hate
  • Parks

• 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.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Money
  • House
  • First

• My customers are successful workingwomen.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Successful
  • Customers

• 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.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Time
  • Poverty
  • Injustice

• I do or die, but I never cancel out.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Die
  • Never
  • Cancel

• 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.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • School
  • High
  • Movies

• Everything's so accelerated now.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Everything
  • Now

• I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'

  

  Gary Ross
  • Design
  • Stuff
  • Dug

• Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Progress
  • Very
  • Guys

• I enjoy being me; I always have done. I've seen people where it rules their lives, you know, who want to be thinner or have bigger boobs, and it wears them down. And I don't want that in my life. It's never been an issue - at least, I've never hung out with the sort of horrible people who would make it an issue. I have insecurities, of course, but I don't hang out with anyone who points them out to me.

  

  Adele
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.

  

  Minor White
  • Inspiration
  • Creative
  • Photography

• In many ways, 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' is modeled on Shakespeare's Henry V, which relied on a chorus to explain in words the battles of Harfleur and Agincourt that could never be captured on the Elizabethan stage.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Words
  • Star
  • Never

• My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Children
  • Family
  • Stupid

• I really like looking at what's new in my favourite designers' stores, even if I don't buy anything.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
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