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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You must be wise, but not too wise.
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In Europe, it is not so unusual for directors to move between opera, theatre, and film, and I have at least three girlfriends I can think of who have directed in all three genres.
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I start the day just with the family. I don't check emails until my commute, and I make sure my phone isn't close to me until I'm out the door.
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And a government that accepts that it will be judged more by its deeds than by its mere words.
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I can go into the wilderness and not see anyone for days and experience a kind of space that hasn't changed for tens of thousands of years. Having that experience was necessary to my perception of how photography can look at the changes humanity has brought about in the landscape. My work does become a kind of lament.
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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.
