Lena Dunham Quotes
I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.
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In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
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Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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I'm a political conservative.
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I'm going to try to do music for the rest of my life, but that's just trying. Maybe it's not going to work out. Who knows?
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I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
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I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there since 2002. I used to make popcorn. I was an usher. Cleaned toilets, everything. Grew up there as a kid.
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My father was dark skinned because he was Tatar. Sometimes Tatars can look Brazilian.
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self, where there is no need for your effort to reject the thoughts.
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For me, there is no day or night for music. I often work through the night - without phone calls disturbing me.
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We are great believers in the idea that the Internet can help bring justice, but justice varies from place to place across the world.
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Before I did comedy, I'd freestyle with all of my friends. In high school and into college, I recorded songs with my friends, not to perform but just to play for them. So I've had interest in music for a while. Early on, I'd host a lot of music open nights or hip-hop nights, so a lot of my early experience performing was around music.
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I'm proudest of the fact that I've been able to make a few movies in the studio system that are slightly unorthodox and personal. But it's never quite as easy as you dream that it could be.
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To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.
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One of the jobs I had was cutting out the blood clots on a side of beef.
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My first big disappointment is always, why don't I look like Julie Christie? Then I realise I don't look remotely like Julie Christie, and that's always a great sadness to me. Because I used to think I might have done, at one time. And I'm too fat. And I'm too old. You always see your faults, you see.
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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
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I have to think a thousand times before I speak. If I am myself and end up saying one wrong thing, there will be 1,000 negative tweets about me.
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I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.
