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Tavi Gevinson Quotes

'Rookie' is not your guide to Being a Teen. It is, quite simply, a bunch of writing and art we like and believe in.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Art Teen Writing Believe Rookie

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hope Children Parenting Roots Wings

'What's It Gonna Be?' is about having a massive crush on someone, so it made sense to go back where - to school, where it all began. But it was important for us to explore those archetypal characters - The Jock, The Nerd, The Dork, The Popular Kid - and then flip expectations.

School Expectations Someone Back Go

I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing a story. I also read a lot of diaries and oral histories.

Love Learning Writing Story Own

As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I know that the CIA, Treasury Department, National Security Agency, and others work closely to keep tabs on the IRGC's operations.

Work Intelligence House Security

Part of me sees myself as talented, and the other part sees me as strange. Ideas get stuck in your head and nothing changes them. Not even fame.

Myself Me Ideas Nothing Strange Get

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that's left for you or to make one of your own.

Trying You Find Whatever Own Niche

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

Christopher Morley

People Thinking Mechanical Imagine

All I ever cared about was actors - toughest job in this business.

Business Job About Ever Toughest

You can't deny that if you have, you know, people who think it's okay to talk about women, to disregard the rights of workers, we're in trouble as an inclusive world.

Women People World Think You Know

I think if you're not scared, you're not doing your job right.

Job Think Doing You Right Scared

I'm a strong voice by nature. I'm sometimes a bull in a china shop.

Nature Voice Strong Sometimes Bull

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

You Bread Out Something Sure Make

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