Tavi Gevinson Quotes
Sometimes you want something really serious that makes you feel emotional and makes you think, and sometimes you do just want a pop song. What I love about Taylor Swift is that she offers both.
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There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.
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For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.
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In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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The Iraqis are not threatened by the Turks or by the Iranians or by the Saudis and they tell me that these are not weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons of self-destruction.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
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I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
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I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.
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It's hard for me to even watch comedies I'm in.
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I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom.
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A naturopath once told me you should never take antibiotics except if you have pneumonia, a kidney infection or some other serious illness. That's my philosophy, too.
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I find the songs and dances in Hindi films fascinating, and I know I will do justice to them, as I am a trained dancer.
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How can you tell a story with one frame that, by its simplicity, manages to tell a story, a gag that evokes an emotion in you? That became my motto throughout all my life. Simplicity.
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Life experiences inherently change you as a writer. My sense of fury calmed down when I had children and found a loving partner.
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Sometimes you want something really serious that makes you feel emotional and makes you think, and sometimes you do just want a pop song. What I love about Taylor Swift is that she offers both.
