Tavi Gevinson Quotes
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.
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I really like using the softening cream. It helps me go out there with confidence to do what I need to do, and at the same time, it's very functional and helps keep the hair out of my mouth so I can focus on pitching.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
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Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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In addition to reining in spending, taxes, tolls and fees, let's rein in how much the state borrows.
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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I never did feel any pressure in Jamaica. You just someone, not nobody big.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.
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I don't like to pretend I was guided in any way by the supernatural world, but the more you talk about that, the easier it is to dismiss those notions.
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I can't control what goes on; that's not my responsibility. My responsibility is to go play football. ... I take it as a low blow. I had to work. It wasn't handed to me, I had to get out and grind. It's a golden opportunity [to prove people wrong].
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I've got two girls, and they both make beautiful drawings. One of them really has a gift for the way that she colors around certain lines.
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In New York, I much prefer playing older because as characters get older, they get more interesting.
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You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them.
