Lena Dunham Quotes
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The only time I felt like a weird exploiter - even though I knew I wasn't one - was when I was writing a sex scene between me and my adorable co-star [Adam Driver] in which he had to tell me how much he loved my potbelly. It seemed like a weird wish-fulfillment thing, where I'm directing my own fantasy.
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You have to move so you don't die. You have to move so your brain doesn't atrophy. You have to move so that you look a little bit like a person that you might want to be. There are a thousand reasons why exercise is important, and I've had to find ways to make it sexy for myself.
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Feminists believe that men and women should have the same opportunities. If you are a feminist you believe in equal rights as a whole. That’s not a concept you can really shoot down.
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I consider being female such a unique gift, such a sacred joy, in ways that run so deep I can't articulate them. It's a special kind of privilege to be born into the body you wanted, to embrace the essence of your gender even as you recognize what you are up against. Even as you seek to redefine it.
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We both followed our hearts and had no choice but to hurt each other deeply.
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Luxury is nice, but creativity is nicer.
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I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.
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There is something vulnerable about showing your tattoos to people, even while it gives you a feeling that you are wearing a sleeve when you are naked.
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You’ve learned a new rule and it’s simple: don’t put yourself in situations you’d like to run away from. But when you run, run back to yourself, like that bunny in Runaway Bunny runs to its mother, but you are the mother and you’ll see that later and be very, very proud.
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It's not brave to do something that doesn't scare you.
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Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.
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I don't think anyone would want to come to my gallery show.
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I'm really lucky because I surround myself onset with people who I really trust to give me feedback, so I'm directing myself.
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I wish that author [ E. L. James] all the success in the world. It's just not for me.
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I do think girls in their twenties accept certain kinds of lesser treatment than they would at other times in their lives.
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Not to speak for Jason [Benjamin], but he's a straight married dude with two kids.
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When you're writing a script you have the option to embellish on life or switch the order of events or make it generally more cinematic. I would stick too closely to my own experience and not necessarily think about the fact that it needs to have an event happen. Realising that I could channel my own experience into a story that was slightly more cinematic was a very important moment for me - allowing myself to accept that the kind of screenwriting I'm doing is a work of fiction.
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On Girls I like being a mouthpiece for the issues I think young females face today. It’s always shocking when people question whether it’s a feminist show. How could a show about women exploring women not be? Feminism isn’t a dirty word. It’s not like we’re a deranged group who think women should take over the planet, raise our young on our own and eliminate men from the picture. Feminism is about women having all the rights that men have.
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I'd always loved movies, but it wasn't some sort of desperate love of celluloid. It was literally like, "I want to write things, and I want people to see them more."
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I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.
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I get a lot of unasked for sexual confessions.
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Can we call a moratorium on the use of the term 'ladyparts'? Grazia!
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I kind of look like every other girl walking around.
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My mom said the term heavy petting existed a lot when she was in high school.
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Aren't most of us dealing with the fact that we have moms who either weren't ready to be moms or had some level of resentment about it? Everybody is dealing with the different iteration of pain their mom has handed them.
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There's people who don't want to see bodies like mine or bodies like their own bodies.
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The male capacity for turning the negative into a compliment is really alarming.
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I'm glad if my work can make a difference.
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I went to schools that were small enough that basically everyone was in a play. I played a bouncing ball in a production of Alice in Wonderland and a fat man in an Italian commedia dell'arte play. I was given some small chances.
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I sometimes want to make a book of every tattoo I wanted to get before I actually got a tattoo, because there were so many awful ideas and concepts.
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