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If a young woman is looking at the landscape of Hollywood, what she sees is almost only challenges.

Lena Dunham

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Lena Dunham
Age: 38
Born: 1986
Born: May 13
Actor
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Film Director
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Television Actor
Television Producer
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I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.
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I have to take my shoes off, you guys.
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This weird pressure that mothers are put under, like this idea that if you can't breastfeed, you're not doing something properly, or if you choose not to.
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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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My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine.
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You can't force other people to like you and you just kind of have to ride the wave. I think I could have saved myself a lot of sleepless nights with that advice.
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The male capacity for turning the negative into a compliment is really alarming.
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I get a lot of unasked for sexual confessions.
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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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I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I've been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out.
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The parts I enjoy playing aren't really available to me. So I have to write them.
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Basically, anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl, I was trying.
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It's okay to change your mind. About a feeling, a person, a promise of love.
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I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.
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You should always go where there is a 'you-shaped' hole in the world.
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I never set out to make any statements about a specific character, I just set out to tell what feels like is a truthful story, a person that you and I might truly encounter.
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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 thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.
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Scandal has made wine and popcorn seem like a viable, even healthful, meal.
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It doesn't occur to so many people that if you don't have a clear heterosexual, gender confirming identity that there are parts of day-to-day life - like using a bathroom or getting your clothes - that just aren't going to be as easy.
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