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The job of the artist is to point at things.

Miranda July

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Miranda July
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: February 15
Actor
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Miranda J. Grossinger
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… it wasn’t pretend, I wasn’t in a fairytale or a fable. I shut my eyes and absorbed the silent whoomp that always accompanies this revelation. It’s the sound of the real world, gigantic and impossible, replacing the smaller version of reality that I wear like a bonnet, clutched tightly under my chin.
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We come from long lines of people destined never to meet.
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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've always been terrified of getting used to something that is actually killing me-a relationship or a job. But in those cases, you can count on a friend to say something. The Internet is different, because all my friends are in the same relationship.
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I didn't have any vices before the Internet. There are a lot of cracks in the day, moments where you don't know what to do next, so you have a little hole where you look at your phone. You want something that will mean you're not alone in that moment.
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I was going to die and it was taking forever.
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I'm not a cinephile. My films don't reference films. I'm more interested in rhythm and feeling.
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Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.
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I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to come up with characters that are not me.
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We really wanted to know all the unknowable things about each other and how we were the same and how we were different, if we even were, maybe nobody is.
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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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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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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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Well,I have a theory that men don't actually cry less than women,they just do it differently. Since we never saw our fathers cry,we are forced to invent our own unique method.
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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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I knew the beginning and the end – I just had to dream up a convincing middle.
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Would she understand that time had stopped while she was gone.
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He seemed to be waiting for me to move forward. Weren't we all.
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Don't wait to be sure. Move, move, move.
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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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