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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I've always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.
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I just enjoy lying on the couch and reading a magazine.
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The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.
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If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.
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One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.
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I refresh Twitter as thoughtlessly as some twirl their hair.
