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I can't imagine being invested in someone else's script.
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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The word God asks a question and then answers it before there is any chance to wonder.
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Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.
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Maybe that's why people take pictures of themselves, to avoid being described.
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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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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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I nodded, pretending I was relaxed. I watched the sunlight sparkling on the water and practiced mind-body integration for a few seconds by quietly hyperventilating.
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I don't tally the world, asking, Would this annoy you? Would this annoy you? That's so far removed from where I'm at when I'm in the trenches struggling with how to express things that I don't fully understand myself.
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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.
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I steeled myself against laughter I would rather die than laugh. I didn’t laugh, I did not laugh. But I died, I did die.
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What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.
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Would she understand that time had stopped while she was gone.
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We were always getting away with something, which implied that someone was always watching us, which meant that we were not alone in this world.
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