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Tavi Gevinson Quotes

Interviewing Rei Kawakubo in Tokyo and John Galliano in Paris, both for 'Pop' magazine, were huge for me, not just in learning about fashion and writing but about how little desire I had to be a critic/reporter/journalist/commentator so much as a kind of travel diarist.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Learning Travel Me Writing Fashion

Growing up, the only acts that came to us in Alaska were the big ones. The Mariah Careys.

Growing Up Growing Alaska Up Big Us

Don't all writers have a hidden nerve, call it a secret chamber, something irreducibly theirs, which stirs their prose and makes it tick and turn this way or that, and identifies them, like a signature, though it lurks far deeper than their style, or their voice or other telltale antics?

Style Voice Way Hidden Secret Turn

The slogans of globalisation are 'Get on your bike' and 'The world is flat.' People who want to get on have to be willing to move, often and unhesitatingly, at the behest of their employer or to seek work.

John Lanchester

Work Bike People World Want Seek

Anytime a culture is in economic stress, ugly things start happening.

Culture Stress Ugly Start Things

The Broad research center represents the highest quality model of what Proposition 71 should be funding.

Quality Research Center Model Should

Dickens's final book, 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood,' forms the jumping-off point for my new novel, 'The Last Dickens'. This last work by Dickens has very little social commentary and a pretty tightly efficient storyline and cast of characters. Not necessarily what we think of when we think what characterizes Dickens.

Work Book Think Mystery New Little

The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.

Men Peace Ambition Present Striving

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre.

Purpose Me Society Exploration Royal

I'm not looking for a legacy, and you'll never shut up the critics. I've been around 50 years. When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

Change Legacy Looking Proud You Up

If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don't think it's easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself.

Change Yourself Be Yourself Think

The fight against the drug smuggling is lost worldwide.

Fight Lost Against Smuggling

Obama is a very good actor. He knows how to play it. And he is very adept at creating this 'Obama' - this character who is there whenever the world needs something.

Good Character World Creating Play

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