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There are so many reactions to art that make sense to me - but 'ick' means something.

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Lena Dunham
Age: 38
Born: 1986
Born: May 13
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My shape reminds me a lot of my grandmother, whom I was really close to. She died when I was 13, and we have a really similar body type, the squat New England woman who can roll out dough and bring in your lawnmower. That's kind of the vibe of my body, and I'm into it.
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There's people who don't want to see bodies like mine or bodies like their own bodies.
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I do think girls in their twenties accept certain kinds of lesser treatment than they would at other times in their lives.
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For anyone that has ever done a sex scene, it takes on the feeling of learning a ridiculous dance, like the electric slide. It's not a sexy experience.
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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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It's not that I don't want to hear about that [blow job] stuff, I just want to hear about it immediately. And I want to hear about it on more comfortable terms.
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I'll start by saying that Fifty Shades of Grey: It's like I don't have. an elicit confused relationship to my sexuality. So I don't need a book like that.
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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.
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Barbie’s disfigured. It’s fine to play with her just as long as you keep that in mind.
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I love flawed female characters, duking it out.
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One of my favorite facts about Jason [Benjamin] is that he collects shirts from tattoo parlors. He has a bunch of tattoo parlor T-shirts, but no tattoos. And then he wears, like, vans and jeans. My boyfriend said he looks like a modern Bruce Springsteen, which is a pretty high compliment.
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When it's low-budget, and you have one other person on the set, you have to make rules.
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Mine's [fans] a lot of like weird guys in prison. So I don't need to answer them.
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The only time I felt like a weird exploiter - even though I knew I wasn't one - was when I was writing a sex scene between me and my adorable co-star [Adam Driver] in which he had to tell me how much he loved my potbelly. It seemed like a weird wish-fulfillment thing, where I'm directing my own fantasy.
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You don't need to be flamboyant in your life to be flamboyant in your work.
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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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I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and so I'm careful. I don't even know where my line is, but I know I have a line.
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I think women are conditioned to stand by their man and watch them make it to the top, but most men never believe the person they get into a relationship with is going to rise any higher than she was when they met. It takes a very special, evolved person to be able to deal with change within a relationship.
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As a woman who doesn't necessarily fit the beauty standard in Hollywood... I really related to the narrative of looking for something you felt comfortable in that would properly express your identity, especially when your identity didn't feel like it necessarily matched the one that was being imposed on you.
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