taylor swift

“Don’t worry. You may think you’ll never get over it. But you also thought it would last forever.”

“It’s never been about trying to look well-behaved. It’s just how I am. I guess it’s a weird thing to be 19 and not ever have been drunk, but for me, it just feels normal because I don’t really know any other way. I don’t know if I’d be comfortable getting wasted and not knowing what I’ve said. That doesn’t mean when I’m older I won’t have a glass of wine. I just don’t think it’s such a strange thing for me not to be wasted all the time.”

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I don’t think that being a strong person is about ignoring your emotions and fighting your feelings. Putting on a brave face doesn’t make you a brave person. That’s why everybody in my life knows everything that I’m going through. I can’t hide anything from them. People need to realize that being open isn’t the same as being weak.

I don’t think that being a strong person is about ignoring your emotions and fighting your feelings. Putting on a brave face doesn’t make you a brave person. That’s why everybody in my life knows everything that I’m going through. I can’t hide anything from them. People need to realize that being open isn’t the same as being weak.

“We are never going to be able to completely ignore people who don’t like us for no reason. You hate it when you feel like people have the wrong impression of you and it’s so hard to want to control the need to say, ‘No, that’s not who I am at all!’ But at this point, I try to encourage people not to try to defend themselves. If you know who you are, then you do not need to defend yourself.

for variety magazine by  mary ellen matthews 2020

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“I had been thinking a lot about how the media has created this complex, fictionalized cartoon version of me, you know, this man-eating, jet-setting serial dater who reels them in, but scares them off because she’s clingy and needy; then she’s all dejected, so she goes into her lair and writes a song as a weapon. I mean, man, that’s pretty intense. And I started thinking about what an interesting character that person is. And, if I was that person, what would my life motto be, my mantra? What would I say? I think I’d own it.”