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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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Lena Dunham
Age: 38
Born: 1986
Born: May 13
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I would be a horrible girlfriend at this point in my life, because I’m both needy and unavailable.
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I always imagined that having a baby is something that I'm going to keep in a private place, but maybe my curse is that all I'm going to want to do is tell everybody about what my birth process was like and what my children's nightmares are.
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