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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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Tavi Gevinson
Age: 28
Born: 1996
Born: April 21
Actor
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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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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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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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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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Sometimes people are so unbelievably vitriolic on the Internet because I think that everybody wants to be heard, and the easiest way to be the loudest is to be the hater. But you don't know who's behind the keyboard, and you don't really know if their complaint is about the topic at hand or if they're just bitter about something else.
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I feel like a young adult. In high school I never felt like my professional life and my personal life were at odds, because Rookie felt like the bridge.
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The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me.
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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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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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You don’t need to be a completely complete human right now … That’s what makes you human.
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You don’t have to be special, you just have to be kind.
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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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There are things that feel so small but are such a big part of life.
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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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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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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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I do find working with people in the entertainment industry hard. It can cause anxiety and depression.
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There's danger in glorifying negative emotions as fuel for art.
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I think it was my mom's attitude about art and being part of the narcissistic digital generation or whatever that made me think anyone would care what I had to say about anything!
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