Tavi Gevinson Quotes
I still care a lot about my personal style, and since moving to New York and having a little more control over my own money, I've been able to make my 12-year-old fashion nerd dream comes true.
Quotes to Explore
-
There's one guy who inspired a nation of golfers, and that's Greg Norman. He's been incredible to me and all the great golfers.
-
I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.
-
There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
-
I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
-
The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
-
My message to the ladies would be, you can do all of the things, but not all of them at the same time.
-
Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
-
I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.
-
Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.
-
I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
-
When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.
-
As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.
-
The loneliest, most down-on-his-luck person can have a dog who adores him. The most bitter, sour person can light up with joy when he sees his dog. It is magical and, as 'The Dog Master' reveals, it is biological - we evolved together.
-
I'm not graceful.
-
Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
-
I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.
-
I was in Barcelona working with Shakira, and it was an amazing experience. She's a great artist, and I learned a lot while working with her.
-
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
-
The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
-
Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.
-
It is true that women in Paris never put on make-up. It shocked me when I first got there – then I realised how much I liked it.
-
In nature, when you conduct science, it is the natural world that is the ultimate decider in what is true and what is not.
-
What I love about the theater is the work ethic. I grew up with it.
-
I still care a lot about my personal style, and since moving to New York and having a little more control over my own money, I've been able to make my 12-year-old fashion nerd dream comes true.
