Lena Dunham Quotes

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Lena Dunham

Profession : Actress

Birth : May 13, 1986

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 think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.

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My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine.

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All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way.

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

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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.

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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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I had no friends. I worried a lot.

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

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It's really hard to grow with another person.

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You're raised to think being a mother is an inevitable step in your development but you start to ask yourself questions, because not every woman does want to have children.

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You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, there's so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them.

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Every time I start feeling sexy I trip.

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I never start anything with a really overt, political, or even exactly artistic mission statement.

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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.

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I love what I do, I love every minute of it.

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I guess I think about doing stuff that nobody else has done.

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Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether.

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I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.

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

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