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Lena Dunham
Age: 38
Born: 1986
Born: May 13
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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 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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Mine's [fans] a lot of like weird guys in prison. So I don't need to answer them.
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Of course you don't want anybody to feel shame for their sexuality. But you also want to make it clear that a loud, a loud and proud approach to your sexuality at a young age isn't necessary to be a fully integrated person.
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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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It's almost like when you're young, your friends take on the romance role, and then guys take on the role of your friends later.
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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 don't want to get married until all gay people can get married.
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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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For straight, hetero people it's very easy to unintentionally say something that might not honor people's identities fully, and Grace Dunham is a really amazing educational resource.
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Don't put yourself in situations you'd like to run away from. But when you run, run back to yourself.
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Aren't most of us dealing with the fact that we have moms who either weren't ready to be moms or had some level of resentment about it? Everybody is dealing with the different iteration of pain their mom has handed them.
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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.
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The male capacity for turning the negative into a compliment is really alarming.
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I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.
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Enjoy going through life as yourself.
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You don't need to be flamboyant in your life to be flamboyant in your work.
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That's the feeling [of relativity] I always had about [Judy Blume] books which I re-read and re-read and re-read.
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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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My relationship to eating, my relationship to critiquing my own shape, all of that has changed since I've started viewing my body much more as a tool to do my work.
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