Tavi Gevinson Quotes
Sometimes if you expose your vulnerability, someone else will feel comforted. It's like we're all in this boat together.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.
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I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
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Never fight an inanimate object.
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To have nothing to say and to say it in a tragic manner is not the same thing as having something to say.
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Usual messages from the heads of the establishment. The Queen from Windsor, the Pope from Rome: Pilate and Caiaphas celebrating the birth of Christ.
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Original work has no floor and no ceiling. You can reach essentially zero readers or millions.
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When I was in New York, I put together a show; I put together this really great band and performed at this place called Littlefield in Brooklyn. It was really fun. I did, like, 10 standards, and then I just hopped around different bars like Mona's and different jazz clubs in New York just singing because I know all the standards so well.
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We are nothing if we walk alone; we are everything when we walk together in step with other dignified feet.
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Sometimes if you expose your vulnerability, someone else will feel comforted. It's like we're all in this boat together.
