Tavi Gevinson Quotes
Since the age of 14, I have littered – excuse me, adorned – the Internet with Taylor Swift analyses.
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I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.
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I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
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I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.
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Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.
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Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.
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What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.
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I'm into my grime, hip-hop, dance, and house music.
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There's no place like home. And I do miss my home.
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In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.
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For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.
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No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
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They offered me one cover about 10 years ago, and I said, no, I can't do it. I'm happy to cover up now.
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It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It's a difficult balance.
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Since the age of 14, I have littered – excuse me, adorned – the Internet with Taylor Swift analyses.
