Lena Dunham Quotes

I never thought of myself as like, a funny person.

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• I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Mind
  • Opinion
  • Strength

• What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.

  

  Nancy Carell
  • Family
  • Small
  • Breakfast

• My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Hate

• I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Love
  • Freedom
  • Running

• Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

  

  Ovid
  • Heart
  • You
  • Soft

• Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Music
  • Help
  • Gift

• I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Work
  • Success
  • Texas

• 'Twilight' fans are different. They're very civil with one another. It's a respect because they're all in this together and they all appreciate the same things.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Different
  • Together
  • Respect

• A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Experience
  • London
  • Bicycle

• A few goals is the way soccer is meant to be played.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Goals
  • Soccer
  • Meant To Be

• When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.

  

  Tablo
  • Feelings
  • Daughter
  • Price

• I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Know
  • Beauty
  • Just

• There's a lot of things I want to do. I want to learn Italian. I want to learn to play tennis better. I want to motivate the world, basically.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • World
  • Learn
  • Better

• When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Trying
  • School
  • Together

• There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Person
  • Pure
  • Introvert

• I didn't even know what it was when I started. But I was lucky. I found it at 16. Most people don't discover decathlon until they're 21 or 22.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Know
  • Lucky

• I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist, without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Long
  • Understand
  • Ship

• For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of my stock consists of Filipino books written in English and in the native languages.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Writing
  • Growth
  • English

• While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Love
  • Funny
  • Busy

• Nothing has ever touched on what fun childhood was. Summer holidays were bliss. We made home movies, with real stories in them. My father had such charm and charisma, and made everything so funny.

  

  Jane Birkin
  • Real
  • Home
  • Fun

• I love Eric Clapton and what he did with Cream; 'Spoonful' and 'Crossroads,' those are probably the coolest solos.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd

• Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you're doomed; you're finished.

  

  Anthony Hopkins
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Fall

• I never thought of myself as like, a funny person.

  

  Lena Dunham
  • Funny