Lena Dunham Quotes
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The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.
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The real war will never get in the books.
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We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.
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Barbra Streisand, for one, is one of my idols. I've listened to her since I was a little kid - the first album I ever bought was 'A Star is Born' with Kris Kristofferson.
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I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.
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I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.
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I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.
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Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.
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I do like alternative rock and rap, but as far as inspirational, then I go full-on orchestra. It fills up your entire being.
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I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.
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Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
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It's not about what equipment you have, it's what you do with it.
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Robotics has been around forever, and it's been the next big thing forever, and it is so exciting and compelling that it's easy to get carried away. People almost always do, and that's one of the things that has held back the industry.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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I like to think of 'Illuminate' as the mature version of the previous one, a year older, more experience.
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My mother emails me stuff about when she finds a paparazzi photo and they're like, his hair is out of control.
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I refresh Twitter as thoughtlessly as some twirl their hair.
