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I learned that people are much more game to mock their own personas than you would think. (Lena Dunham)
When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal. View quote
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I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific. View quote
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My parents were very supportive when I was growing up and have been all the way through. View quote
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None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond. View quote
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I can play very annoying girl, very lost girl and then all the things in the spectrum between. View quote
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My mom knows pretty well how I see her. View quote
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My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press. View quote
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I seriously consider television to be the people's medium. View quote
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You know, I always think of myself as sort of ready for every criticism. View quote
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I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age. (Lena Dunham)
I do think girls in their twenties accept certain kinds of lesser treatment than they would at other times in their lives. View quote
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No one wants to see a tattoo on a stomach. View quote
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It's interesting to see how other people react to an oversharer. View quote
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I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people. View quote
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I thought I was really a radical, political person, which of course I am not. View quote
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The end never comes when you think it will. It's always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left. View quote
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Guys warning girls not to fall in love with them is so truly douchey that it should have a higher success rate. View quote
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When someone shows you how little you mean to them and you keep coming back for more, before you know it you start to mean less to yourself. View quote
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But I also think when we embark on intimate relationships, we make a basic human promise to be decent, to hold a flattering mirror up to each other, to be respectful as we explore each other. View quote
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But I am a girl with a keen interest in having it all, and what follows are hopeful dispatches from the frontlines of that struggle. (Lena Dunham)
I just don't want to be around people who don't hate everything in their life right now. View quote
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I have been envious of male characteristics, if not the men themselves. I'm jealous of the ease with which they seem to inhabit their professional pursuits: the lack of apologizing, of bending over backward to make sure the people around them are comfortable with what they're trying to do. The fact that they are so often free of the people-pleasing instincts I have considered to be a curse of my female existence. View quote
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I didn't have to wait six years to get my show on the air, worry that someone else had a similar idea, or wait around for notes that took my voice out of the show. View quote
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I'm always afraid that I'm being unprofessional, yet I continue to sign all my e-mails 'xoxo.' View quote
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Lena Dunham

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Photo: Wikimedia commons, CC BY 3.0
Occupation: American Actress
Born: May 13, 1986
Quotes count: 104

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