Tavi Gevinson Quotes
People don't know what to do when writing a story with teens that takes place now - they think you have to make a bunch of references to Facebook.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.
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It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.
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Always just remember that you can never know all; you're always going to be learning; there's always going to be something new. I don't think you'll ever have it all figured out.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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We should all love animals.
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I am aware that I look good for my age. It's my genes. My dad looked incredibly young, so did my mother. And a younger husband helps. Scott is only 45. If he hadn't come along, I don't know what I'd have done.
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Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.
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One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.
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I think that I had read so much fiction that the craft itself sort of sank into me. I didn't read any 'how to' books or attend any popular-fiction-writing classes or have a critique group. For many years into my writing, I didn't even know another author. For me, a lot of reading was the best teacher.
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I've been a voice for many people.
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Investigative superstar Jason Leopold spares no one, least of all himself, in this devastatingly accurate first-hand expose. News Junkie provides the best account so far of how, and why, current American journalism has become so pharisaical, spineless, and detached from the truth
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People don't know what to do when writing a story with teens that takes place now - they think you have to make a bunch of references to Facebook.
