Women are complicated...not because women are crazy, but because people are crazy, and women happen to be people. Tavi Gevinson More Quotes by Tavi Gevinson More Quotes From Tavi Gevinson I've never really felt like a journalist. I've felt like a writer and a diarist. I have made myself vulnerable in my writing, and I think that vulnerability makes people strong. My favorite performances or works of art are always people showing that side of themselves. Tavi Gevinson strong writing art I try not to do anything I don't like, so I stay motivated pretty easily. Tavi Gevinson stay-motivated motivated trying 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. Tavi Gevinson editors fashion years The best cure for procrastination is to have so much on your plate that procrastination is no longer an option. Tavi Gevinson plates cures procrastination 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. Tavi Gevinson comfort joy past I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books. Tavi Gevinson fashion followers book The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me. Tavi Gevinson misunderstood feelings ideas 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. Tavi Gevinson film real thinking I think it'd be great to own a fun concept store with my friends and just sell books and records. Tavi Gevinson fun book thinking There's danger in glorifying negative emotions as fuel for art. Tavi Gevinson fuel negative art I feel lucky in that I don't really have to go to college to study something job-specific. I just want to go to learn about what is interesting to me and learn about the classes that you don't really get to take in high school because you have to take the basics. Tavi Gevinson college jobs school When you're a kid you're already trying to create your own world and organize the one in front of you, but then you get all insecure around 6th grade and don't think you have a right to share that. 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! Tavi Gevinson attitude kids art Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face. Tavi Gevinson awful trying sports 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. Tavi Gevinson growing-up kids school 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. Tavi Gevinson teenager jobs school 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. Tavi Gevinson expectations running long I did community theater and kids programs at professional theaters and plays at school and voice lessons for seven years. I stopped because it was so time-consuming. But then I realized that I had access to this world where I could go on auditions. And there wasn't too much of an identity crisis when I started acting professionally because I had been acting longer than I had been writing. It didn't feel new. Tavi Gevinson writing kids school My only job has been to say that you have to, try different things and let yourself become a different person, have experiences. Tavi Gevinson different trying jobs I'm not exactly in a position where I get to be super-picky about the roles I get. But I would also never want to be a part of something that I think is poor in taste or doesn't align with what I believe in. Tavi Gevinson roles believe thinking 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. Tavi Gevinson bitter people thinking
