Tavi Gevinson Quotes

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• You don’t need to be a completely complete human right now … That’s what makes you human.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Being Yourself

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• You don’t have to be special, you just have to be kind.

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  Special You, Special, Be Kind

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• What makes a strong female character is a character who has weaknesses, who has flaws, who is maybe not immediately likable, but eventually relatable.

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  Strong, Character, Weakness

  "A teen just trying to figure it out". TEDxTeen Talk, www.ted.com. March 2012.

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• Feminism was not a rulebook but a discussion, a conversation, a process...

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  Feminism, Process, Conversation

  "A teen just trying to figure it out". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2012.

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• Women are complicated...not because women are crazy, but because people are crazy, and women happen to be people.

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  Crazy, People, Complicated

  "A teen just trying to figure it out". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2012.

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• I wanted to start a website for teenaged girls that was not kind of this one-dimensional strong character empowerment thing, because one thing that can be very alienating about a misconception of feminism is that girls then think that to be feminists, they have to live up to being perfectly consistent in their beliefs, never being insecure, never having doubts, having all the answers...and this is not true and actually, recognizing all the contradictions I was feeling became easier once I realized that feminism was not a rule book but a discussion, a conversation, a process.

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  Girl, Strong, Badass

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• I try to make everything creative because it's stimulating. There is this great Stanley Kubrick quote somewhere about how life is sort of bad and how creating is important because it lets a little light in.

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  Creating, Light, Creative

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• Fashion intersects a lot with art and film and music, and that was appealing to me. I read a bunch of fashion blogs and wanted to be part of the community.

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  Fashion, Art, Community

  "Tavi Gevinson may take over the world while you read this". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. January 2, 2013.

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• Feminism to me means fighting. It's a very nuanced, complex thing, but at the very core of it I'm a feminist because I don't think being a girl limits me in any way.

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  Girl, Mean, Fighting

  "Yousafzai The Observer How young heroines helped redefine girlhood as a state of strength" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2013.

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• If you are intimidated by the artists who came before you, understand you too have a place, right next to them.

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  Artist, Next, Intimidated

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• Just really be passionate and stick to your creative vision. Because it's competitive, and there are so many mind games and so many things that could get in the way. But success is the best revenge, so build yourself up rather than knock others down.

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  Revenge, Games, Creative

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I think that everybody wants to be heard, and the easiest way to be the loudest is to be the hater.

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  Hater, Thinking, Want

  "Katie Couric Interviews Tavi Gevinson, The Style Rookie". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. February 6, 2011.

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• One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.

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  Fashion, Art, Film

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• I try not to do anything I don't like, so I stay motivated pretty easily.

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  Trying, Motivated, Stay Motivated

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• The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option.

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  Procrastination, Cures, Plates

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• I will try to hold on to the intense feeling. I will both be glad that that’s no longer happening and kind of miss it. When you’re 14, you’re basically on drugs all the time - the hormones in your body are so crazy. But I really loved and appreciated the intensity of that. And you’re experiencing everything for the first time, so everything feels like an epiphany. And, like, I really liked the experience of having a crush, because I was like, this is my thing and it doesn’t have to do with you and you’re just some dummy boy for me to project on.

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  Crush, Crazy, Boys

  "At 18, Tavi Gevinson Is a Fashion Veteran—and a Broadway Rookie". Interview with Amy Larocca, www.thecut.com. August 10, 2014.

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• Then people expect women to be that easy to understand, and women are mad at themselves for not being that simple, when, in actuality, women are complicated, women are multifaceted - not because women are crazy, but because people are crazy, and women happen to be people.

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  Crazy, Simple, People

  "A teen just trying to figure it out". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March, 2012.

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• There's danger in glorifying negative emotions as fuel for art.

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  Art, Negative, Fuel

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• My life motto is basically to lower your standards and expectations so you're never disappointed and never put any trust in anything, and I try to prepare for the day that I wake up and everyone I know is like LOL JK BEST LONG - RUNNING PRACTICAL JOKE EVER, so I've never really let myself freak out or get too excited about anything. Not in an effort to be cool or not care or anything, just out of neurosis.

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  Running, Expectations, Long

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.

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  Thinking, Makeup, People

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• I think one of the hardest things to do in film or TV is to make something feel real, which is weird because it's about being a person, and life is something that everyone making films and TV can relate to.

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  Real, Thinking, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Meaning lies in the magic of the coincidence that you should come across work at just the right time.

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  Lying, Magic, Coincidence

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• Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.

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  Sports, Trying, Awful

  "Katie Couric Interviews Tavi Gevinson, The Style Rookie". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. February 6, 2011.

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• It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.

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  Past, Joy, Comfort

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• When I wrote my blog and went to fashion week, I got a lot of shade from older editors about paying my dues and educating myself. I get where they were coming from, but it's also weird now to see their institutions scramble to use the internet in a way that's not savvy, but genuinely effective and exciting to people. I've been doing that for years.

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  Fashion, Years, Editors

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