Tavi Gevinson Quotes
I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.

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The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.
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Basketball paid for four years of my education, and I am so proud of that.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
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People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.
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I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.
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I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
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Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
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Allowing adult children who live at home who are in between jobs to stay on their parents' health care, I think that's a lot of Republican support for that, with or without Obamacare.
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Elton John is a huge influence and an artist I've listened to since I was a little girl.
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When it comes to the assignment of blame, the CIA has by and large been a luckless organization.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.