Lena Dunham Quotes
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Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.
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I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.
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I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
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I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
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'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.
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Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'
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Every character has their reasons - even the characters who do dumb things.
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Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.
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I write about real life as it is lived by the young American Muslim women that I've had the pleasure of meeting throughout the course of my travels as a writer and being able to speak in different places and meet different people at signings and things.
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All my movies are achingly personal.
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Hockey seems completely lawless and, therefore, inexplicably sexy.
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There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.
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I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God that some of the people out there understand you.
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What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
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For now I had begun to believe, despite all the talk of science around me, that there was a magic in spoken words.
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When your voice contradicts reality and truth, the only way to create space for it is to discredit reality and truth.
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I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.
