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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.

Miranda July

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Miranda July
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: February 15
Actor
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Film Actor
Film Director
Musician
Screenwriter
Writer
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Miranda J. Grossinger
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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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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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Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else.
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When I write, I wear earplugs. I don't want to be self-conscious. I don't want to be thinking about the fact that I'm thinking about it. I just want to be in it. It's one element of hypnosis.
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I went to the bedroom and lay on the floor, so as not to mess up the covers.
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