Lena Dunham Quotes - Page 9

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• The fact is that I write under duress, often in my bed, often at the last minute. I'm kind of a binge writer I would say, which I don't support. I was always kind of that way. Probably the time I was the most regular as a writer was college. It was like, what else is there to do when you're living in the Midwest studying creative writing?

  Lena Dunham

  Writing, College, Support

  "Lena Dunham: 'I write under duress, often in my bed, often at the last minute'" by Alice Driver, www.salon.com. December 27, 2013.

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• I always thought that if you had any real proximity to famous people, that your obsession with famous people, would wane is some way. Like, I wouldn't want to deep google Matthew McConaughey's early relationships for hours before I go to bed. And it's just gotten worse.

  Lena Dunham

  Real, People, Google

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• It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you'd be scared.

  Lena Dunham

  Strong, Fun, Often Can

  Interview with Claire Danes, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 11, 2012.

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• I love flawed female characters, duking it out.

  Lena Dunham

  Character, Female, Flawed

  "Lena Dunham and Producer Judd Apatow Talk HBO Series GIRLS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 26, 2012.

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• Let's call a spade a spade - a lot of times when you are a vegetarian it is a just not very effective eating disorder.

  Lena Dunham

  Eating Disorder, Vegetarian, Spades

  "Downtown’s Daughter" by Rebecca Mead, www.newyorker.com. November 15, 2010.

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• When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn't believe I was at.

  Lena Dunham

  Jobs, Believe, College

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• I'd love to write something for a male protagonist. That's sort of the next frontier for me. I think it'd be really amazing to write the kind of parts that I love for women but for a guy.

  Lena Dunham

  Writing, Thinking, Guy

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• I think that as our country becomes more tolerant as a whole of certain things, hopefully becomes more tolerant, there's a way that certain kinds of bullying will be passe and unacceptable.

  Lena Dunham

  Country, Bullying, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I've been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out.

  Lena Dunham

  Funny, Moving, Mean

  "Lena Dunham Addresses Criticism Aimed At 'Girls'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 7, 2012.

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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.

  Lena Dunham

  Believe, Opportunity, Men

  JFL42 Comedy Festival in Toronto, www.harpersbazaar.com. Fall 2014.

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• The parts I enjoy playing aren't really available to me. So I have to write them.

  Lena Dunham

  Writing, Enjoy, Available

  "Lena Dunham talks Girls with Most Powerful Women". Interview with Soledad O’brien, fortune.com. October 3, 2012.

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• It'll be taught in homes that it's not okay to make fun of a kid because he's gay or it's not okay to make fun of a girl cause she's fat. But that we have been living for so long in a culture where so many people's parents supported those beliefs that there wasn't any infrastructure for children understanding right and wrong in those situations, if that makes sense.

  Lena Dunham

  Girl, Fun, Children

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I thought I was really a radical, political person, which of course I am not.

  Lena Dunham

  Political, Radical, Persons

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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.

  Lena Dunham

  Tattoo, Book, Ideas

  "Lena Dunham, ‘Girls’ Star, On ‘Labia Saturation,’ Oversharing And Her Tattoos". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2012.

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• Things that feel super personal actually feel really universal. It's sort of the more you really identify something specific within yourself, the more people connect to it because ultimately we are all connected in some way.

  Lena Dunham

  People, Way, Feels

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• I feel like so much more than my gender and so much more than my relationship to my body and my relationship to men. And, but suddenly you're sort of asked to be an expert.

  Lena Dunham

  Men, Experts, Body

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I'm glad if my work can make a difference.

  Lena Dunham

  Differences, Making A Difference, Glad

  "Lena Dunham: from YouTube sensation to film and TV stardom" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2012.

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• I'm always afraid that I'm being unprofessional, yet I continue to sign all my e-mails 'xoxo.'

  Lena Dunham

  Mail

  "Even Lena Dunham’s Dog Is Getting Frisky With Her" by Andrew Goldman, www.nytimes.com. June 08, 2012.

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• I'm not great at dating, but I need to do it to relax.

  Lena Dunham

  Dating, Relax, Needs

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• There is a sort of backlash of people who feel like you're not representing them accurately, and you want to say as elegantly as you can, "I wasn't trying to represent you I, was just doing what I could do to make being alive easier for me." And if it helped anyone or made them feel comforted in the process then it's the greatest thing you can ask for.

  Lena Dunham

  People, Trying, Alive

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.

  Lena Dunham

  School, Creative, Bed

  "Lena Dunham talks Girls with Most Powerful Women". Interview with Soledad O’Brien, fortune.com. October 3, 2012.

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• I know that when I am dying, looking back, it will be women that I regret having argued with, women I sought to impress, to understand, was tortured by. Women I wish to see again, to see them smile and laugh and say, It was all as it should have been.

  Lena Dunham

  Regret, Should Have, Laughing

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.135, Random House

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• It’s interesting to see how other people react to an oversharer.

  Lena Dunham

  People, Interesting

  "Lena Dunham, ‘Girls’ Star, On ‘Labia Saturation,’ Oversharing And Her Tattoos". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2012.

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• I deserved kisses. I deserved to be treated like a piece of meat but also respected for my intellect.

  Lena Dunham

  Kissing, Meat, Pieces

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.33, Random House

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• Basically my new litmus test for people is, do they make me hear about a blow job they gave in the first ten minutes of us talking? And if they didn't then I can feel excited.

  Lena Dunham

  Jobs, Blow, Talking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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