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An erratum is a correction inserted into a book after publication. It's a nice thing to collect because you can't go after them, you just come upon them. In 25 years I've only found about 12.
Miranda July
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Miranda July
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: February 15
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Miranda J. Grossinger
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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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I don't tally the world, asking, Would this annoy you? Would this annoy you? That's so far removed from where I'm at when I'm in the trenches struggling with how to express things that I don't fully understand myself.
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When I was very little, I probably wanted to be more normal. I probably wanted the Laura Ashley bedroom, and instead I got thrift-store everything.
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The job of the artist is to point at things.
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I knew the beginning and the end – I just had to dream up a convincing middle.
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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 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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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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That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it.
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I wish there were a class where we could just keep going around the circle. around and around, until we had finally said everything about ourselves.
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I went to the bedroom and lay on the floor, so as not to mess up the covers.
Miranda July
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'm not a cinephile. My films don't reference films. I'm more interested in rhythm and feeling.
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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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Would she understand that time had stopped while she was gone.
Miranda July
I spend a lot of time obsessing about getting a dignified eight hours' sleep.
Miranda July
I wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself.
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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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She bludgeoned me with a look of such limitless compassion that I immediately began to cry.
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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.
Miranda July
