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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
Artist
Film Actor
Film Director
Musician
Screenwriter
Writer
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Miranda J. Grossinger
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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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Don't wait to be sure. Move, move, move.
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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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I'm totally not kidding. Life is too short. This is all too hard to do to actually be kidding about the whole thing.
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It occurred to me that everyone’s story matters to themselves, so the more I listened, the more she wanted to talk.
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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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I can guarantee you nothing I do is a conscious attempt to inject something in.
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I wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself.
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This person realizes that staying home means blowing off everyone this person has ever known. But the desire to stay in is very strong. This person wants to run a bath and then read in bed.
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I like embracing kind of normal forms but am always trying to approach them as if no one's ever done that before. As if I'm literally the first person to ever write a book.
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What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.
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There's always the sense that you should strike while the iron's hot and while there are all these opportunities, but that's not the way I get ideas. It has to be more organic, building up through living and through experiencing things.
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Did you ever really love her? Not really no. But me? Yes. Even though I have no pizzazz?
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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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It was a tiny sound but it woke me up because it was a human sound.
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I nodded, pretending I was relaxed. I watched the sunlight sparkling on the water and practiced mind-body integration for a few seconds by quietly hyperventilating.
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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 life you live in front of an audience is like an altered state - it's not totally real. I'm always, even in the course of one day, trying to find ways to balance both sides.
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Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.
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Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else.
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