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.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Desire
  • Single
  • Hand

• The real war will never get in the books.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Real
  • War
  • Never

• 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.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Feelings
  • Sex
  • Kindness

• I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Never
  • Two
  • Journal

• 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.

  

  Laura Innes
  • Family
  • She
  • Age

• 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.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Pleasure
  • Nonfiction
  • Exclusively

• By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Nature
  • Beautiful
  • Reality

• 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.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Different
  • Me
  • Scary

• I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Action
  • Fighting

• I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • School
  • High
  • Day

• 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.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Star
  • Born
  • Kid

• I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Up
  • School
  • Art

• I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Remember
  • Always
  • Thought

• 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.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Children
  • Education
  • Child

• Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Christian
  • Belief
  • Fiction

• I do like alternative rock and rap, but as far as inspirational, then I go full-on orchestra. It fills up your entire being.

  

  Osric Chau
  • Up
  • Rock
  • inspirational

• I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Think
  • Treat
  • Dignity

• Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Stand
  • Other
  • Shoulders

• In previous roles, I have thought of my body as 'Betty's body,' and I try not to eat too many dinner rolls - please don't fire me! I'll make crazy choices from the neck up, but from the neck down, it's just me trying to suck it in. And in 'GLOW,' my whole body was required to do a function and not just to look as good as possible in a costume.

  

  Betty Gilpin
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• Inarticulate wretches have been behind most of the major advances in civilization. If Vincent Van Gogh had been able to get on with his neighbours, then he might have become an excellent painter-decorator, and received a big turn out at his funeral, and that would be that. But the genes wouldn't let him.

  

  Declan Lynch
  • Civilization
  • Funeral
  • Excellent

• I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Respect
  • Government
  • Fact

• It was so good to see Irma's face when we made this album, ... She did us proud.

  

  Allen Toussaint
  • Good
  • She
  • Proud

• I was horrified to find out that a startling percentage of women, even in Bengaluru, do not go out or wash their hair during their periods.

  

  Kriti Sanon
  • Women
  • Hair

• I refresh Twitter as thoughtlessly as some twirl their hair.

  

  Lena Dunham
  • Hair