Quotes by Teddy Geiger - Page 1

I'm not ashamed of myself.
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Ashamed
Myself
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My mother makes marvelous meals.
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Marvelous
Meals
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It's hard to feel like a teen idol.
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Teen
Idol
Teen Idol
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I'm just kind of trying to make the best stuff I can make.
Teddy Geiger /
Best Trying I Can
Just Kind
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I threw away all my boys' clothes and started wearing makeup.
Teddy Geiger /
Threw
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I went to my junior prom. It wasn't that fun... And I don't dance.
Teddy Geiger /
Prom
Junior
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Movies affecting music has caused me to collaborate a little bit better.
Teddy Geiger /
Caused
Affecting
Music Movies Me
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I'm extremely bad at not missing TV shows, but I'd like not to miss '24.'
Teddy Geiger /
Missing
Tv Shows
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I started out as an artist, but I've always wanted to be a writer and producer.
Teddy Geiger /
Producer
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Everybody has had that experience of really wanting to do something and being afraid.
Teddy Geiger /
Being Afraid
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People have their image of you or their ideas about who you are, and it can be frustrating.
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Frustrating
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A lot of animals are finding themselves in positions where their habitats are being destroyed.
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Destroyed
Habitats
Positions
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I was on 'In Search of the Partridge Family,' MTV'S 'Miss Seventeen,' and the comedy 'Love Monkey.'
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Comedy
Mtv
Seventeen
Miss
Monkey
Search
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I think you can tour the country and collectively reach fewer people than just being on television one time.
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Fewer
One Time
Time People Country
Collectively
Time Country People
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Having a hit is fine, but doing the work is what I want. I get more excited the day of creation than once it's big.
Teddy Geiger /
Creation
Work Day Doing
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Things kind of have their arc: you get signed, and your first thought is, 'Oh my God, I made it!' But you never really make it.
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Arc
Oh My God
Signed
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Painting my nails was one of the things I liked to do, and I was so terrified of, like, ever letting anybody see my nails painted.
Teddy Geiger /
Nails
Terrified
Letting
Painted
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I try not to write two songs about the same thing, although, on occasion, it happens, so I guess it kinda helps to change stuff up.
Teddy Geiger /
Occasion
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A lot of what's happened with my career has been because of the Internet. It's a way for me to reach fans directly, especially with music.
Teddy Geiger /
Music Internet Me
Directly
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That image of who I was publicly was so solidified. You're that person. And it wasn't even close to a true representation of where I was in my life.
Teddy Geiger /
Representation
Life My Life True
Publicly
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A lot of times, I'd be styled and, like, wearing a t-shirt I wouldn't ever wear. All the sudden, there's this image of you, and you're like, 'Hold on, wait.'
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Sudden
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When I was growing up, I didn't know of anybody who was trans. There was always, like, this shame, anxiety thing around all of that, even if I wasn't actively expressing it.
Teddy Geiger /
Actively
Expressing
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I got No Doubt on cassette, 'Tragic Kingdom.' And I just remember being so psyched about all those songs and, like, the songwriting and just her voice, and her vibe was amazing.
Teddy Geiger /
No Doubt
Songwriting
Tragic
Cassette
Psyched
Vibe
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I can remember back to being 5 and looking in the mirror, feeling like a girl and wanting that. But growing up in Rochester, there were limited resources. I'd never met a trans person before.
Teddy Geiger /
Limited Resources
Rochester
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It's funny. Some people now are like, 'Why would you transition? Why can't you just be comfortable how you were born?' That was my logic, but at a certain point, I realized that I was born uncomfortable.
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Logic
Uncomfortable
Certain Point
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One of the things that I loved about working on that first album was working with Billy Mann, who produced the album, and all the people who worked to finish it. Just seeing how they did things and learning.
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Billy
Produced
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I told a couple friends about it... I was like, 'Hey, might be trans, might want to look at doing hormone therapy, just letting you know'... and they were like, 'Yeah cool. Who cares? Like, whatever, awesome.'
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Hey
Therapy
Who Cares
Yeah
Cool Look Doing
Awesome
Cares
Letting
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Music has been more a solitary, creative thing. The acting side of things and working in movies has helped me collaboratively with music in terms of helping me get ideas across to other people and making it more of a team efforts.
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Solitary
Music Movies Me
Efforts
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I started painting my nails and started wearing some women's clothing, but that whole side of me always caused problems in my intimate relationships. There was a lot of shame attached to it. I'd talk to people I was dating about it but still feel ashamed.
Teddy Geiger /
Dating
Ashamed
Intimate
Nails
Caused
Women Always Me
Attached
Clothing
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I was terrified of girls until sophomore year of high school. I couldn't even borrow pencils from them. I'd have to wait until the teacher called me out on it, like, 'Does anybody have a pencil for Teddy?' because I'd be too scared to ask the girl next to me.
Teddy Geiger /
Teacher
High School
Scared
Sophomore
Sophomore Year
Teddy
Terrified
Teacher Me School
Anybody
Borrow
Wait
Pencil
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It's not a cis-man becoming a cis-woman. It's a trans person just being who they want to be. This is how I've always felt, and this is who I've always been. But so much focus is put on the transition or the change because it's so visible. But that's not even what it is... That's who that person's been and who they are now.
Teddy Geiger /
Visible
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