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I was going to die and it was taking forever.

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Miranda July
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: February 15
Actor
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Film Actor
Film Director
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Miranda J. Grossinger
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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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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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I'm interested in what the virtues of all those things are, especially for the kind of person who's made their own world that revolves around them, like writers do. It seems especially precious.
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But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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The job of the artist is to point at things.
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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 had a joint once and I didn't feel right for a whole year
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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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I wondered if i would spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to depress myself.
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The word God asks a question and then answers it before there is any chance to wonder.
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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.
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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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I'm not a cinephile. My films don't reference films. I'm more interested in rhythm and feeling.
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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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