Lena Dunham Quotes

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

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• Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Something
  • Leisure
  • Haste

• I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Always
  • Acting
  • Going

• Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Pain
  • Violence
  • Suffering

• I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Long
  • Family
  • Together

• No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Judge
  • Individual
  • Guilt

• I haven't watched that much TV, to be honest. To be honest, I don't watch that many films anymore - partly because I don't have time; secondly, because I watch a lot of sports, and I love watching sports.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Time
  • Sports
  • Honest

• As weird as it is it to see yourself on screen, it made everything we've been through seem very real. And, well, London is only weeks away now.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Real
  • Weird
  • Yourself

• I am a lifelong Democrat.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Democrat
  • Lifelong

• We worked lightly even in the heaviest parts.

  

  Ingrid Thulin
  • Worked
  • Parts
  • Even

• It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

  

  Mae West
  • Better
  • Over
  • Overlooked

• A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Good
  • Joy
  • Forever

• Justice doesn’t exist! We did worse things. Nobody deserves to go to that place, Alec said. Anyway, weren’t you Christian types supposed to forgive everybody?I will shed no tears for that bastard’s damnation, said Nicholas stonily.No wonder nobody’s left that believes in your stupid religion, said Alec.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Christian
  • Justice
  • Wonder

• Hydrogen selenide, I decided, was perhaps the worst smell in the world. But hydrogen telluride came close, was also a smell from hell. An up-to-date hell, I decided, would have not just rivers of fiery brimstone, but lakes of boiling selenium and tellurium, too.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Up
  • World

• Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being.

  

  Carl Jung
  • World

• Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

  

  Ben Carson
  • Life
  • Why
  • Power

• Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground-I screamed and instantly ran mad! We remained thus mutually deprived of our senses some minutes, and on regaining them were deprived of them again. For an hour and a quarter did we continue in this unfortunate situation.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Mad

• I obey Thee Lord, first for the love I ought, in all reason to bear Thee; secondly for that Thou canst shorten or prolong the lives of men.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Men

• Our interests are very much aligned. Our attempts of cooperation are very much aligned.

  

  Angela Merkel

• I'd chosen instead to just change my route, go miles out of the way, as if avoiding it would make it go away once and for all.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Change
  • Avoiding
  • Route

• I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Life
  • Paris
  • Bitter

• The most difficult thing about my job is that I do a lot of 19-hour days. It's really difficult to have a life, never mind a relationship. I don't have any regrets, really. I'm quite content. I'm very stubborn and persistent. I just keep working.

  

  Kim Cattrall
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Job

• A preemptive action today, however well-justified, may come back with unwelcome consequences in the future. And because... I've done this. I've ordered these kinds of actions - I don't care how precise your bombs and your weapons are, when you set them off, innocent people will die.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Future
  • Action
  • Weapons

• There's always the standard six people you can hire that have played all these villains in Hollywood. Instinctively, when they come on screen, you know what's going to happen. You don't know the story, but you know what they do.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • People

• I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

  

  Lena Dunham