Lena Dunham Quotes
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I find it really awkward to do a scene where I'm supposed to seem like I'm in love.
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No one wants to see a tattoo on a stomach.
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I feel like I don't watch that many shows with death.
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I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before.
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Let's call a spade a spade - a lot of times when you are a vegetarian it is a just not very effective eating disorder.
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I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.
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You know, I always think of myself as sort of ready for every criticism.
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There is something vulnerable about showing your tattoos to people, even while it gives you a feeling that you are wearing a sleeve when you are naked.
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It's almost like when you're young, your friends take on the romance role, and then guys take on the role of your friends later.
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I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.
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None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.
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It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you'd be scared.
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I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.
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I'm not great at dating, but I need to do it to relax.
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I never start anything with a really overt, political, or even exactly artistic mission statement.
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At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.
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I kind of look like every other girl, walking around.
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I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.
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I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.
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I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and so I'm careful. I don't even know where my line is, but I know I have a line.
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I always thought the saddest feeling in life is when you're dancing in a really joyful way and then you hit your head on something.
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I refresh Twitter as thoughtlessly as some twirl their hair.
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I do think girls in their twenties accept certain kinds of lesser treatment than they would at other times in their lives.
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The parts I enjoy playing aren't really available to me. So I have to write them.