Lena Dunham Quotes
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
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I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
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The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
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The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
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I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.
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You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
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I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.
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I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my life, and I don't like to be compared to a filthy writer.
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For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In college, I wrote my papers weeks early and finished my thesis four months before the due date. My roommates joked that I had a productive form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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I come from the bottom of the ladder. I'm from Norwich. Not many people seem to know about it.
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When I was born, my father named me Melissa, and I am still Melissa, but I got the nickname Lizzo around the time I was in the Cornrow Clique.
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When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.
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But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan.
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We don't want the federal government coming in and telling us how to do our environmental remediation or how we're going to do our healthcare.
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Every time I start feeling sexy I trip.
