Tavi Gevinson Quotes
I'm really thankful for every experience I've had, even the ones that were puzzling or disorienting, because they taught me so much.
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Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.
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People tell you you're having chemotherapy, but there are different types of chemotherapy, and you don't know which one you're going to get and how it's going to affect you. The people in the hospitals don't always have time to help you understand it.
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I don't think what I look like is relevant.
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I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.
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I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
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I'm not politically correct.
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All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'
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Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
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My character in 'True Grit' would set these goals for herself that seemed near impossible, but to her they were possible. She was never going to believe anything else other than that.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
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If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.
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They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army – thousands of guys have done that. They're shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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It's really nice to pass the ball when you're in an ensemble cast.
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Originally I was supposed to do Grand Prix, but I was under contract to 20th Century Fox at that time and Alex North was supposed to do Sand Pebbles, but he got sick, so Fox preempted me out of Grand Prix, and to my good fortune, I got to do Sand Pebbles. It was my first time working with Robert Wise and it was a great experience.
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Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.
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I'm really thankful for every experience I've had, even the ones that were puzzling or disorienting, because they taught me so much.
