Trying Quotes by Lena Dunham

10 Trying quotes by Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham’s take on trying reads like a quick, candid blog post, each of the ten lines peppered with humor and honesty. She captures the messy, hopeful side of pushing forward in a way that feels instantly relatable.

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I have work, and then I have a dinner thing. And then I am busy, trying to become who I am.

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Basically, anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl, I was trying,

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I can never be who I was. I can simply watch her with sympathy, understanding, and some measure of awe. There she…

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My parents are pretty liberal. But they were just you know trying to look out for my innocence or whatever. But my…

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It was only when I started making short films in college and I was looking for girls to play the me-ish parts…

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I should do the things that make me feel cool and smart. As I get older, I'm realizing more and more that…

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The biggest fear that everybody has is dying. Not to get too meta on you, but I think every fear that people…

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There is a sort of backlash of people who feel like you're not representing them accurately, and you want to say as…

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I have been envious of male characteristics, if not the men themselves. I'm jealous of the ease with which they seem to…

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Calling someone a drama queen is so negative. Why not 'content creator'?

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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…

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“I am sorry (not to you but in a deeper way, sorry for my brain chemistry and who I am.”

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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…

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At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.

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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…

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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…

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You’ve learned a new rule and it’s simple: don’t put yourself in situations you’d like to run away from. But when you run, run…

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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.

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My uncle's a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, 'That's cool, too bad I could never be a…

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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'm glad if my work can make a difference.

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