Lena Dunham Quotes
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 want to continue to be me and share with people.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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I was a tomboy.
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Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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Buildings are forms of performances.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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R. Kelly is an image, a brand. That's my job. There's a whole other side of me that's Robert, who is a father, a friend. But then I put on the game face and go into the studio and do the music. That's just another day at the office.
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I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.
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Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them. You don't know what they're going to wreck and destroy.
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I'm looking for challenges, and as always, what matters is the script, the character and the director.
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How many married couples do you know who met over accounting books in a Starbucks?
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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Mary Lincoln provided Elizabeth Keckley with opportunities for social and economic advancement she probably had never imagined during her years as a slave, while Elizabeth offered Mary the loyal, steadfast friendship she craved but had always found so elusive.
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My father is the reason I am the way I am today. He's why I acted up and he's why I prayed to be the opposite of him. We made up before he died but I vowed to never raise my kids like how he raised me.
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One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.
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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.
