Tavi Gevinson Quotes
I don't know that a lot of boys read 'Rookie', but we get quite a few nice comments and e-mails from them. To say I'm devoted to making it girls-only is a little extreme, because I don't actively try to exclude everyone else, just make sure girls know that this space is for them first and foremost.
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I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.
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Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.
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Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.
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I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
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I love songs that people can dance to and enjoy at the same time.
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How does one measure the success of a museum?
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I'm open to sci-fi, but I was never a diehard fan. I have no idea why it keeps following me. I'm extremely lucky, I guess; it's a lucrative venue.
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In the year 3000, everything will be instant.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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I'm very tomboy, and I'm inspired by hip hop artists.
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I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
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Education is neither eastern nor western.
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I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.
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The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.
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College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em.
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The Greeks encountered the confusion of tongues when numbers invaded Euclidean space. (p. 203)
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I don't know that a lot of boys read 'Rookie', but we get quite a few nice comments and e-mails from them. To say I'm devoted to making it girls-only is a little extreme, because I don't actively try to exclude everyone else, just make sure girls know that this space is for them first and foremost.
