Tavi Gevinson Quotes
I really just don't think that teenagers and adults are maybe as different as people think, and so the best roles, to me, are treated like real people and not like these 'crazy kids we don't know what to do with.'
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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I always wanted Han Solo's confidence and swagger. My personality is way more C-3PO, but Han was always who I wanted to be.
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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through body armor.
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Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.
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No, I thing that's the worst f**king thing. I mean, can you imagine having to get up at 4am and sit in a trailer while someone puts makeup on you? Then stand in front of a camera and say the same lines 60 times. I feel sorry for actors and I never want to do it. I stood in front of a camera in Singles and that's about it.
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The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
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I've been surfing for a couple years, in the offseason in California and in Hawaii. I'm not very good, but it's just something that to be out there in the water, no cell phone, no music... very few sports are as pure as that.
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I don't view the fans in the way that most performers do. As a mass of people who have paid money, I know what they want. It's a very, very, very, very, very low common denominator.
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I really just don't think that teenagers and adults are maybe as different as people think, and so the best roles, to me, are treated like real people and not like these 'crazy kids we don't know what to do with.'
