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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.
Tavi Gevinson
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Tavi Gevinson
Age: 28
Born: 1996
Born: April 21
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I love art, but I don't think I'm especially good at it. Fashion I think I could imagine, but I'm not really sure. I think it's easiest for me to picture myself in music.
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There are things that feel so small but are such a big part of life.
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You don’t have to be special, you just have to be kind.
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I have a problem with people saying feminine means anti-feminist, and I think it's counter-productive to immediately associate anything girly with vanity or stupidity. I also think it takes away from girls' agency to say that girls who are interested in that kind of thing only are because they don't know what's good for them.
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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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I try not to do anything I don't like, so I stay motivated pretty easily.
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Graduating high school was really emotional for me. I'd obviously made a huge thing out of what that experience was for me, and saying goodbye to it was very weird. So I had to be like, boom, onward and upward.
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To me, being a woman in 2016 is allowing myself to contain multitudes. Looking at who's given the space to do so and why.
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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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The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option.
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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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I see so few scripts just because, for whatever reason, there just aren't that many good scripts with a young, teenaged girl. So it's always been sporadic. People don't know what to do when writing a story with teens that takes place now - they think you have to make a bunch of references to Facebook.
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My only job has been to say that you have to, try different things and let yourself become a different person, have experiences.
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I do think reading is the best practice for writing, along with writing all the time. I actually never liked writing on my own or in school until I'd had my blog for a while and realized I'd been writing every day for years.
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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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There's danger in glorifying negative emotions as fuel for art.
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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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Some of what makes growing up hard for famous kids is that they don't have room to do immature stuff. I was really happy that I could go to school and hang out behind the alley and be somewhat irresponsible.
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I think it'd be great to own a fun concept store with my friends and just sell books and records.
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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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