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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.
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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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 can't imagine being invested in someone else's script.
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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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