Lena Dunham Quotes
I'm ridiculous in my oversharing; my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.
Quotes to Explore
-
What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
-
Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
-
The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
-
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
-
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.
-
My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
-
You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
-
It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
-
Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.
-
I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
-
I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
-
If you don't meet the standards, then you don't qualify.
-
A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
-
Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
-
All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
-
Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
-
I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.
-
I love David's attitude in the Bible. He wasn't afraid to go against the trends. He wasn't going to be defined by the opinions of others.
-
The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
-
In our view any awareness is an increment to consciousness, an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence. Its swiftness or instantaneity can hide this growth from us. But there is a growth of being in every instance of awareness. Consciousness is in itself an act, the human act.
-
Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance.
-
But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.
-
I'm not surprised, but I am disappointed that Katharine Carr Esters claims that she was 'tricked' into divulging her true feelings about Oprah and that she now denies that she revealed to me the identity of Oprah's biological father.
-
I'm ridiculous in my oversharing; my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.
