Lena Dunham Quotes
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I don't care if I never see Texas again.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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I wanted to get a cropped hairdo, but Sreenu Vaitla loves my look in 'Chiruta,' so he suggested that I keep the long hair.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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I am a huge wrestling fan. I would say The Rock is my favorite person to watch for obvious reasons.
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I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
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I got hit with an octopus in Detroit one time. It was the most gross thing I've ever had happen. I got it right in the back of the neck; all the juice was coming down. It was awful.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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The chips are in production, the machines aren't. So we've got a little bit of work left to do.
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It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
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My band persona is 25% tougher than I am.
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I am against nationalists, but I am very much in favour of patriots.
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Cross-pollination and 'contamination' is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it's a literal conversation, too, in that writers who might never otherwise meet and talk do so because of our anthologies.
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Every now and then, people will recognize me at restaurants or Universal Studios or something. I'll always take a picture with them if they want. I mean, that's what telling stories and acting for a living are for - for the people.
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This dark brightness that falls from the stars.
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I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.
