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I don't think I'm more of a screenwriter than I am a fiction writer. I'm more of a reader than a film-watcher, so I imagine that I'm not approaching fiction or films in a particularly cinematic way.

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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