You know, I always think of myself as sort of ready for every cri... by Lena Dunham

You know, I always think of myself as sort of ready for every criticism.

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Now if you went to someone's house to look for them, you would be... by Lena Dunham

Now if you went to someone's house to look for them, you would be a psychopath.

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The experience of directing yourself in a sex scene is, in a way, great. It's the fantasy we all have in our lives all the time.

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I'm really lucky because I surround myself onset with people who I really trust to give me feedback, so I'm directing myself.

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You're a small business and you have to take care of yourself the way you would a small business and take care of yourself the way any small business owner would.

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There is no way that my mother hasn't influenced my career. She's my first critic. She's my best critic. She has the best instincts from writing to style to editing, to the visual elements of my career.

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I'm so in awe of what visual artists do and I do understand the differences of what visual artists do. I have a small art collection I hope to expand.

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I'm just waiting to be 85 and be in a pajama community. Everyone'... by Lena Dunham

I'm just waiting to be 85 and be in a pajama community. Everyone's welcome to join me.

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I don't think anyone would want to come to my gallery show. by Lena Dunham

I don't think anyone would want to come to my gallery show.

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One of the reasons I'm so proud of my mother is she took her skills of over a 40 years photographic career and translated that to a film.

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I think we all feel that way when we're young we don't think teachers have lives. We don't think therapists have lives. We don't think doctors have lives.

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Directing is about as visual as I get and I will leave artmaking... by Lena Dunham

Directing is about as visual as I get and I will leave artmaking to the rest of the family.

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You get reactions and you connect to people and I love Twitter. by Lena Dunham

You get reactions and you connect to people and I love Twitter.

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I feel lucky in that the same way I've surrounded myself with people I'm creatively comfortable with, I've surrounded myself with people who are accepting of the way that I look.

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I write at all different times. I write in my bed, I write at the table. I need to get it together. I'm working on a book and working, and just jam it in whenever it makes sense.

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Escapism for me can come in the form of someone else's reality. by Lena Dunham

Escapism for me can come in the form of someone else's reality.

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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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I thought about ["Summer Sisters" ] so often as I was writing about these female characters who love each other and hated each other and were sort of in love with each other.

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I hate to be the person that's like, "We're doing something that'... by Lena Dunham

I hate to be the person that's like, "We're doing something that's never been done before."

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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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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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