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I'm always having to be told to brush my hair.

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Lena Dunham
Age: 38
Born: 1986
Born: May 13
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I can never be who I was. I can simply watch her with sympathy, understanding, and some measure of awe. There she goes, backpack on, headed for the subway or the airport. She did her best with her eyeliner. She learned a new word she wants to try out on you. She is ambling along. She is looking for it.
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But I want to tell my stories, more than that, I have to in order to stay sane.
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I had no clue what anyone was talking about like, you know I don't think I, I don't think any of the depictions of sex were more to me than just like an image of two people's arms rubbing together [when I was eight], I just had no clue.
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I felt like I was a writer, and I just thought filmmaking was the best way for me to express that, because it allows me to embrace the visual world that I love. It's allows me to interact with people, to be more social than fiction or poetry, and it felt like the right way for me to tell the stories that felt pressing to me.
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I love flawed female characters, duking it out.
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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 felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.
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My sister is bold, independent, and not afraid to wear overalls. Some of her first words as a child were that's not fair, and she's been committed to social justice ever since. She's my hero.
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When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn't believe I was at.
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I took Forever [by Judy Blume] to the bathroom to read [when I was eight] and then I heard my mom coming so I stuck it under the toilet and went running out. And I went back later to check for it. And it was gone.
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Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.
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I would rather spend my entire life doing nothing than have my name attached to something mediocre.
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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.
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I'm really lucky because my sister is a real activist soul and also hyper-intellectualized in this way that's really allowed me to wrap my mind around some of the bigger intellectual concepts and really understand the language around identity in the gender nonconforming community.
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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.
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I am thinking particularly of a shower I took where the lower half of my body was under the running water and the upper half was laid out on the bath mat, eating a loaf of bread.
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I feel prettier with a naked face and ChapStick. But a good haircut makes a huge difference.
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