Lena Dunham Quotes

I feel like I don't watch that many shows with death.

Lena Dunham

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• Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Trying
  • True
  • Hand

• In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Live
  • America
  • Freedom

• All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Life
  • Law
  • Health

• Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Stronger
  • Israel
  • Curse

• I can't comprehend that I'm in the film of 'Les Miserables.' It's one of those dreams I thought would be unattainable for someone like me, who came from nowhere.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Like
  • Film
  • Dreams

• Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Children
  • Past

• To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Up
  • Me

• I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.

  

  Ina Garten
  • First
  • Lived
  • Barefoot

• What is sought can never produce the seeking.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Never
  • Produce
  • Sought

• I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Night

• America is a meritocracy.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America

• I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Why
  • Find
  • Curious

• I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Always
  • Politics
  • Exposed

• I know there are writers who like to say that every novel is hard, and it doesn't get easier. That may be the case, and I've only written two. But the first, to me, was characterized by an enduring oscillation between perseverance and a profound doubt.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Hard
  • Profound
  • Novel

• I would like to find, or I would like a part to come to me that is like the part that Dennis Franz was fortunate to be able to play on 'NYPD Blue,' a sort of similar-looking actor to me, a generic, bald white guy who you would often think of as playing the authority figure. But he was the disgruntled middle-man. That would be a fun character.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Character
  • Fun
  • Guy

• The process is intense and the producers, who are intelligent men, are bringing in new people for a fresh look at a complicated project that has been in the making for 10 years.

  

  Ednita Nazario
  • People
  • Men
  • Process

• I know the only reason that I haven't gotten many good parts is because I am Latin - and they tell it to my face a lot of times.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Latin
  • Parts

• My countrymen have the right to shake my hand and talk to me if they so wish. Don't forget that their support and their reading of my works is what brought me the Nobel prize.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Support
  • Right
  • Works

• Who says that big-budget films are safer than mid-range films? In terms of return on investment, I'd rather have 'Sling Blade' and 'Shine' than 'Volcano.'

  

  Sidney Sheinberg
  • Films
  • Investment
  • Budget

• I been readin' 'bout how maybe they is planets peopled by folks with ad-vanced brains. On the other hand, maybe we got the most brains...maybe our intellects is the universe's most ad-vanced. Either way, it's a mighty soberin' thought.

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Hand
  • Universe

• It's funny to see how people react to the project, to read their thoughts, and I wonder aloud, 'Did they even watch the movie? Did they even get it?' I know we, myself and the entire cast, put a lot of heart, love and humor into 'Meet the Peeples'. I'm very proud of that film and what we were able to accomplish.

  

  Craig Robinson
  • People
  • Heart
  • Movie

• Our people are going to war to perpetuate slavery, but the war will be its death knell.

  

  Sam Houston
  • People
  • War
  • Death

• I feel like I don't watch that many shows with death.

  

  Lena Dunham
  • Death