Lena Dunham

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  • “It’s very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself.” -Lena Dunham

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  • “I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It’s just a genre that’s very human.” -Lena Dunham

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  • “I’ve only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.” -Lena Dunham

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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.” -Lena Dunham

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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.” -Lena Dunham

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  • “I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.” -Lena Dunham

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  • “I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.” -Lena Dunham

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  • “I’m ridiculous in my oversharing my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me… and my father is a decidedly private person.” -Lena Dunham

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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

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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

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  • “I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.” -Lena Dunham

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  • “I never thought of myself as like, a funny person.” -Lena Dunham

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  • “My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine.” -Lena Dunham

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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.” -Lena Dunham

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  • “If you’re writing, you’re starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it’s for other people – that comes in later.” -Lena Dunham

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  • “I feel like I don’t watch that many shows with death.” -Lena Dunham

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  • “I’m not great at dating, but I need to do it to relax.” -Lena Dunham

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  • “My uncle’s a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, ‘That’s cool, too bad I could never be a lawyer.’” -Lena Dunham

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  • “If you’re writing, you’re starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it’s for other people – that comes in later.” -Lena Dunham

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  • At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career. – Lena Dunham

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