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The job of the artist is to point at things.

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Miranda July
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: February 15
Actor
Artist
Film Actor
Film Director
Musician
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Miranda J. Grossinger
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The things keeping you back-these embarrassing, boring, stupid obstacles-are the heart of what it is to be human. They’re the whole reason for making and needing art. So you might as well go ahead and begin in whatever way you can right now.
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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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In the weeks that followed, we amazed ourselves. Our habits slid apart easily...And our very few intimacies were simply discontinued. Where did they go, those things we did? Were they recycled? Did some new couple in China do them? Were a Swedish man and woman foot to foot at this very moment?
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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 guess like any writer or screenwriter I'm alone in my own world so much of the time that I'm often trying to force myself out of my world. Into more risk. A less controlled kind of inspiration. I'm so keenly aware of how easy it's getting to not leave the house, with Amazon, especially.
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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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Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.
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I can't imagine being invested in someone else's script.
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Maybe that's why people take pictures of themselves, to avoid being described.
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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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As a woman filmmaker it's pretty important that you have some basis of confidence that you're coming from, because, as I got closer to LA, there's less and less women. There's less and less mirrors for who you are.
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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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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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In my paranoid world every storekeeper thinks I’m stealing, every man thinks I’m a prostitute or a lesbian, every woman thinks I’m a lesbian or arrogant, and every child and animal sees the real me and it is evil.
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Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else.
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There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.
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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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I steeled myself against laughter I would rather die than laugh. I didn’t laugh, I did not laugh. But I died, I did die.
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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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People tend to stick to their own size group because it's easier on the neck. Unless they are romantically involved, in which case the size difference is sexy. It means: I am willing to go the distance for you.
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