Lena Dunham Quotes
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.
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It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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I dig all kinds of competition.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.
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Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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I love doing serious movies for adults.
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My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground.
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'
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People have been scared off Bitcoin by the fact that you needed to put your money in an unregulated overseas platform that has been cut off by banks and scrutinized by the Fed. We are looking to remove the pain points and create a way to invest that is faster and more secure.
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For a production that suggests a mysterious dreamscape, I have a particular affection for the Vivian Beaumont Theater. It is the largest dramatic space available in New York City in terms of plays, although musicals have been done there very successfully as well.
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
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I had never danced all my life until I shot for my first song in 'Chirutha.'
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It's not that everything needs to have substance, but when nothing does then you know we're living in a bankrupt society, an artistically bankrupt society, and that's not okay. I think there's room for forms of entertainment that are very light and frivolous and fun, but when those forms of entertainment, forms of "art" if you will, become presented as something more than that, and are believed to be something more than that, then we've got a lot of problems.
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There is no future for me as a closing pitcher.
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I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief and horrible illusion of imminent death. They would just be complicated, time-consuming endeavors that we'd steer well clear of because they got in the way of real life.
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I think what I've recognized over the years is that I'm very, very bingey, extremely bingey when it comes to writing.
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When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.
