#ren

I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#different #different thing #directing #feel #filmmaker

I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#i #lot #only #parents #people

My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#depending #devotion #fitness #mood #routine

Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#go #poets #through #tough #use

Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#children #drive #gives #narrative #sense

It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it. ↗

— Finley Peter Dunne

#like #long #make #much #study

It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#cause #earth #enterprise #grand #grand thing

The gift of willingness is the only thing that stands between the quiet desperation of a disingenuous life and the actualization of unexpressed potential. ↗

— Jim McDonald

#fear #inner-peace #personal-growth #self-awareness #life

In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#fact #had #in fact #life #off

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#children #dictates #even #landscape #measure