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We come from long lines of people destined never to meet.

Miranda July

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Miranda July
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: February 15
Actor
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Film Actor
Film Director
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Miranda J. Grossinger
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I can guarantee you nothing I do is a conscious attempt to inject something in.
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I looked out the window for other passengers in love with their drivers, but we were well disguised, we pretended boredom and prayed for traffic.
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We don't really believe in mowing the lawn we do it only to avoid unnecessary engagement with the neighbors.
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Sometimes I lie in bed trying to decide which of my friends I truly care about, and I always come to the same conclusion: none of them. I thought these were just my starter friends and the real ones would come along later. But no. These are my real friends.
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It was a small thing, but it was a thing, and things have a way of either dying or growing, and it wasn’t dying.
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The job of the artist is to point at things.
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The level of control, that's part of what's so appealing about filmmaking - you have so much control over what the reader, the viewer, is noticing from moment to moment. They can't do that boring boring boring thing as easily.
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Since I started making art, I've always had some kind of project that was really about and for other people, because I think I just need that balance to feel sane myself — you know?
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My ideal life is just lounging around the house and every once in a while I'll kind of write something, and then I'll leave and eat something and masturbate or whatever - just this very fluid life of comforting myself.
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A more normal, mature way to think about it [my work] would be, Oh, I work on multiple projects at once and they overlap, but the actual psychology of it is a lot more self-abusing.
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If you want to have a character who falls into crisis, all you have to do is turn the Internet off, and then we all understand how that feels, when you suddenly just have time and yourself.
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It was a tiny sound but it woke me up because it was a human sound.
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When she saw my messy desk, she said she was the same way, and there was no dust on the TV, and I was easy to love. People just need a little help because they are so used to not loving. It's like scoring the clay to make another piece of clay stick to it.
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People tend to hold on to their first impressions - that's why those first descriptions can be so important. You don't even necessarily look at people that carefully after a while you just hold on to that early impression.
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I had a joint once and I didn't feel right for a whole year
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I spend a lot of time obsessing about getting a dignified eight hours' sleep.
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We were always getting away with something, which implied that someone was always watching us, which meant that we were not alone in this world.
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She never inquired, but she never recoiled, either. This is a quality that I look for in a person, not recoiling.
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