{"id":1365,"date":"2012-04-21T08:34:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T12:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/?p=1365"},"modified":"2012-05-04T09:12:30","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T13:12:30","slug":"quote-of-the-week-lena-dunham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/2012\/04\/quote-of-the-week-lena-dunham\/","title":{"rendered":"QUOTE OF THE WEEK, LENA DUNHAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 120px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daylife.com\/image\/0aw01VW8Lr6XY?utm_source=zemanta&amp;utm_medium=p&amp;utm_content=0aw01VW8Lr6XY&amp;utm_campaign=z1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured\" title=\"NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 20: Actress and filmmaker...\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.daylife.com\/imageserve\/0aw01VW8Lr6XY\/110x150.jpg\" alt=\"NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 20: Actress and filmmaker...\" width=\"110\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 20: Actress and filmmaker Lena Dunham attends the &#39;Supporting Characters&#39; Premiere during the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival at the AMC Lowes Village on April 20, 2012 in New York City. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>What were your favorite books as a child? Do you have a favorite character or hero from one of those books? Is there one book you wish all children would read? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have tattoos from children\u2019s books all over my arms and torso. The biggest one is of Ferdinand the bull, which Elliott Smith also had, but his was a different page. What a good message that book has! Just be yourself and don\u2019t gore anyone with your horns if you don\u2019t feel like it.<\/p>\n<p>Lena Dunham,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/04\/22\/books\/review\/the-creator-of-hbos-girls-shares-her-reading-habits.html?_r=1&amp;nl=books&amp;emc=edit_bk_20120420\">NYTimes Book Review<\/a>, April 22<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/04\/19\/lena-dunham-talks-awkward-girls-sex-scene-video_n_1436513.html\">Lena Dunham Talks Awkward &#8216;Girls&#8217; Sex Scene (VIDEO)<\/a> (huffingtonpost.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5902924\/dont-you-ever-ever-ever-stop-discussing-lena-dunhams-sex-life\">Don&#8217;t You Ever Ever Ever Stop Discussing Lena Dunham&#8217;s Sex Life [Girls]<\/a> (gawker.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/Lena-Dunham-Girls-Premiere-Pictures-22534984\">HBO&#8217;s Girls Premieres With Creator Lena Dunham, Producer Judd Apatow, and Famous Fans<\/a> (popsugar.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/article\/0,,20587099,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines\">Girls Star Lena Dunham Dishes on Sex and the City Comparisons<\/a> (people.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=41b82fad-a039-409f-8470-09fe6dfe4b2a\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What were your favorite books as a child? Do you have a favorite character or hero from one of those books? Is there one book you wish all children would read? I have tattoos from children\u2019s books all over my arms and torso. The biggest one is of Ferdinand the bull, which Elliott Smith also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}