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I'm not a cinephile. My films don't reference films. I'm more interested in rhythm and feeling.

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
Films
Interested
Feeling
Feelings
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Rhythm

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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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We humans are here because nothing can be perfect. There always have to be some living things that are unsatisfied, itchy, trying too hard. If it was all just animals and rocks and lettuce, the gods wouldn't feel like they had enough to do.
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And why had Deb's last boyfriend dumped her? I dumped him. Maybe you didn't French-kiss him enough. I promise you that wasn't it. Tell me how many times a day you kissed, and I'll say if it was enough. Four hundred. Not enough.
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For a split second I felt as though she was nobody special in the larger scheme of my life. She was just some girl who had tied me to her leg to help her sink when she jumped off the bridge. Then I blinked and was in love with her again.
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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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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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He seemed to be waiting for me to move forward. Weren't we all.
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I spend a lot of time obsessing about getting a dignified eight hours' sleep.
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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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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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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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It was a tiny sound but it woke me up because it was a human sound.
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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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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 wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself.
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The job of the artist is to point at things.
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When you can see the beauty of a tree, then you will know what love is.
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