Tavi Gevinson Quotes
I love art, but I don't think I'm especially good at it. Fashion I think I could imagine, but I'm not really sure. I think it's easiest for me to picture myself in music.
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Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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Today's designers don't care if fashion has no relationship to human anatomy.
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I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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I have vowed never to take antibiotics again unless I really need them. I also learned to pay attention to my body, know the difference between indigestion, an allergic reaction to food, a parasitic infection or worms. It's incredible how well I know my body. I really love that.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're responsible. But the various sides of the debate have now become so tribal that it's no longer a matter of changing our views as more information comes in.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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I missed Britain. I'm from here and I never aspired to go to L.A. - it sort of happened by default. I loved being there. I found it a little bit difficult at first, but I found my way.
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Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
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We've been working on a new album, which is going to come out next spring, which is very different, a change of style for us - it's going to be almost like rock music.
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If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much in use for it.
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I like playing at public schools. I like when there's more of a diverse audience. I'll play wherever people want to hear my music, and I'll be glad and grateful for the opportunity, but I'd rather not play for a bunch of white privileged kids. I'm not meaning that in a disrespectful way; you go where people want to hear your music. So if that's where people want to hear me play, I'm glad to play for them. But I'd rather play for an audience where half of them were not into it than one where all of them were pretending to be into it, for fear of being uncultured.
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I love art, but I don't think I'm especially good at it. Fashion I think I could imagine, but I'm not really sure. I think it's easiest for me to picture myself in music.
