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" Taylor's first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unprecedented success in country music, '1989' is strictly pop. "
Tavi Gevinson
Music
Country
First
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" People ask me about the decision to transition from fashion to 'Rookie' magazine. But it wasn't a decision. I was 14, and my interests were changing. "
Tavi Gevinson
People
Me
Changing
" When you work online, staying on the Internet more than you need to feels like being at the office after hours. "
Tavi Gevinson
Work
You
Internet
" I'd like 'Rookie' to be a helpful resource, but I never want it to be too prescriptive. Hopefully, it also makes the reader feel encouraged to think for herself. "
Tavi Gevinson
Want
Feel
Herself
" Some of my clothes are things that we'd play dress up with when we were little, and it's funny that now I'm wearing it, like, as an everyday thing. But if I say 'vintage' or 'thrifted' on the blog, there's this community of fashion bloggers, and I've become sort of tight with some of them, and we, like, just send each other packages. "
Tavi Gevinson
Community
Dress
Funny
" Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids. "
Tavi Gevinson
Like
Think
Sometimes
" 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. "
Tavi Gevinson
Music
Think
Love
" So much about 'Rookie' has been very organically familial among our contributors, among our readers. Yeah, if I interview someone like Lorde, who I do know outside of work - sometimes I'm just so happy; it's so cool that this is organically, effortlessly, the warm, supportive friend vibe that we want here. "
Tavi Gevinson
Work
Know
Happy
" I really just don't think that teenagers and adults are maybe as different as people think, and so the best roles, to me, are treated like real people and not like these 'crazy kids we don't know what to do with.' "
Tavi Gevinson
Think
Best
Crazy
" I'm really thankful for every experience I've had, even the ones that were puzzling or disorienting, because they taught me so much. "
Tavi Gevinson
Thankful
Much
Me
" If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, and I don't write it down, then I could be at lunch with you, and it's like there's a pile of laundry in my brain that I haven't put away, and I struggle to really listen, so that's always been important to me. "
Tavi Gevinson
Struggle
Me
Lunch
" If my parents ever had to ground me, they didn't really know what that would mean, because I was inside most of the time anyway. "
Tavi Gevinson
Know
Time
Parents
" It's great that with the Internet, there has come this sense of creative independence. "
Tavi Gevinson
Creative
Great
Internet
" I think everybody should go to high school. It's horrible, and it unites you with other people. "
Tavi Gevinson
Think
School
People
" 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. "
Tavi Gevinson
Best
Life
Day
" 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
Too Much
Comfort
Enough
" In high school, I was doing my magazine 'Rookie' and a lot of writing, and I became a little less interested in the fashion world. I was approached by an agent for writing, and I said I wanted to act as well. They sent me scripts, and then I got my first Broadway play, 'This Is Our Youth'. "
Tavi Gevinson
Youth
Fashion
School
" I don't know if I'll ever make rap music, but I just like people who are like, 'I am going to just find the medium that's best for this idea and master it and do that.' "
Tavi Gevinson
I Am
People
Music
" 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
You
School
Me
" What feels most productive to me isn't to think so much in terms of how I can be alternative, but how I can be subversive in a way that feels organic, how I can connect with people, and how I can just be myself, which may be the hardest thing to be. "
Tavi Gevinson
Way
Myself
People
" One thing I've learned in my limited experience is you can justify anything intellectually. There are a million reasons to stay with someone, and a million reasons to end something - so you can really only trust your gut. "
Tavi Gevinson
End
Experience
You
" 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. "
Tavi Gevinson
Vanity
People
Stupidity
" I'm good at utilising body parts as letters. "
Tavi Gevinson
Letters
Parts
Body
" I got into one of the schools I applied to because of the essay I wrote about Holly Hunter's character in 'Broadcast News.' She's the only female producer on this news network, and she's really good at her job, but she allots time in her day to just sit at her desk and cry. And then she's just back to work. I find that really effective. "
Tavi Gevinson
Good
Work
Job
" When you're playing someone else, it sounds so negative to say you want to erase yourself, but part of the joy of it is you get to not be yourself. "
Tavi Gevinson
Be Yourself
Joy
Negative
" 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. "
Tavi Gevinson
Happy
People
Makeup
" You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them. "
Tavi Gevinson
You
Them
People
" 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. "
Tavi Gevinson
Fashion
Art
Me
" One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film. "
Tavi Gevinson
Art
Tied
Music
" I'd seen 'The Sopranos,' but I wasn't a faithful viewer because I can't handle it. "
Tavi Gevinson
Seen
Handle
Because
" 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. "
Tavi Gevinson
Day
Writing
School