Tavi Gevinson Quotes

I try to be very honest in my writing. It's amazing, though, to think that people are responding to what we do, but it's okay if they're responding in a positive way too, because I think just creating anything at all to put out there is a gift.

Tavi Gevinson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 21, 1996

Topics

PositivePeopleAmazingWritingGift

We do not realize what we have on Earth until we leave it.

Jim Lovell

EarthRealizeLeaveUntil

It's always great to play a character that goes against the grain. Finn defies what people think when they think of stormtroopers.

John Boyega

CharacterGreatPeopleThinkPlay

You get into sports with the idea that you want to win. If you aren't trying to win, what's the point in being involved? Once you do get involved, you realize the team draws so much from the community, and it would be nothing without the support of it. You've got to give back. It needs to be a two-way street.

Jerry Reinsdorf

CommunitySportsSupportTeamWin

I'd had people say, 'You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again'. But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment.

Matt Damon

MomentPeopleThinkEnjoyWeekYou

I had no idea what to expect when we did Ladies' Night. I didn't think it was going to get nominated for a Grammy. I didn't know that we would have to perform on the MTV Awards show.

Angie Martinez

NightThinkKnowAwardsGoingGet

I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.

Amy Lee

SelfPersonTrueNeverTrue Self

I don't really collect guitars like some musicians do.

Tom Curren

MusiciansLikeSomeReallyCollect

In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.

Mason Cooley

DesireStreetGazeMenacing

I was one of I think three white girls in my school. So, I was very much an outsider. And plus I was Jewish and all of my friends were black and Baptist because they listen to the coolest music. We were all listening to Ray Charles and what was then called race music.

Janis Ian

MusicSchoolListeningBlackThink

I'm certainly no bohemian hippie, and I do love luxury.

Johnny McDaid

LoveLuxuryHippieBohemian

I've seen my own blood and broken a few bones. I've been hit, which isn't an entirely bad thing, as at least you have a glimpse of the suffering endured by the people you are photographing. And in a sense, crumbling empires and war have been with me all my life.

Don McCullin

LifeBrokenWarPeopleSufferingMe

It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.

Craig Bruce

FunnyGoalsChanceAchievingAgainst

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