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Miranda July
Miranda July
American Director
Born: Feb 15, 1974
About Feel Me Time Work You
Related authors: David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Spike Lee Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen
My earliest memory is aged three, seeing sunlight on water and feeling it was really magical. Miranda July
Memory Water Three Feeling Sunlight Seeing Magical Aged Really Earliest
We humans are here because nothing can be perfect. There always have to be some living things that are unsatisfied, itchy, trying too hard. If it was all just animals and rocks and lettuce, the gods wouldn't feel like they had enough to do. Miranda July
Animals Nothing Living Too Enough Some Perfect Unsatisfied Had Had Enough Feel Like Because Always Rocks Itchy Trying Gods Just Hard Lettuce Things Here Humans
I just happen to be from the generation that, like a lot of my older friends, started out writing letters. Miranda July
Generation Writing Older Out Like Lot Friends Just Happen Letters Started
I'm not a cinephile. My films don't reference films. I'm more interested in rhythm and feeling. Miranda July
Feeling Films More Reference Rhythm Interested
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. Miranda July
Everything Laura More Instead Got Bedroom Normal Very Wanted Ashley Little
I actually don't have a great surplus of ideas. Some evolve very slowly, over many years, but I sort of trust that all of the interesting ones will become something that I eventually end up doing. Miranda July
Great Trust Will Become Evolve Some Slowly Something Over Ideas Sort Doing Surplus Years End Up Very Interesting Many Eventually Actually
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. Miranda July
Thinking Wear About Fact Hypnosis Write Self-Conscious Just Want Element
I've been using the same 'I Ching' since I was teenager when it was given to me by a fellow teenager; it seems too late to change now. I don't use it often, but when I do, it really does help. You can fool yourself, but not the 'I Ching.' Miranda July
Me You Change Fool Yourself Too Late Too Late Teenager Seems Given Since Fellow Does Been Same Often Really Use Help Using Now
Long before I started to write in earnest, Lorrie Moore taught me you could have a woman narrator who was funny and complex and even wrongheaded. She opened up a lot of space that me and a million other women rushed into. Miranda July
Funny Me You Woman Women Space Long Before Other Earnest Complex Moore Rushed Could Write Opened She Narrator Lot Up Taught Who Even Million Started
There's no law against asking strangers about their lives and feelings, although sometimes it really feels like there is. Miranda July
Law Sometimes Feelings Strangers About No Law Feels Like Although Against Asking Really Lives
I am a big fan of work in any medium that can take on death - being dead, being a soul - in a new way. Miranda July
Work Death Soul Big Medium Way Take New Dead Am Big Fan New Way Any Being Fan
The moment I feel pressure to read a book, I instinctively rebel against it - which is probably one reason I didn't last long in college. Miranda July
Book Pressure College Long Feel Instinctively Read Which Against Reason Moment Rebel Last
I'm not embarrassed about not having read any book. Miranda July
Book Embarrassed About Having Read Any
Women writers are often conflated with their narrators - as if we can't consciously construct fictional worlds from the ground up and can only write diary entries. Miranda July
Women Worlds Only Construct Write Writers Diary Up Women Writers Often Fictional Ground
I'm often drawn in by a description of a woman thinking something familiar that's never been articulated before, as in Diane Cook's 'Somebody's Baby' or Nina Berberova's 'The Tattered Cloak.' Miranda July
Woman Somebody Before Thinking Baby Nina Drawn Something Never Been Diane Cloak Familiar Articulated Often Cook Description
It's amazing how little you can see people but still stay in regular contact. Miranda July
You People Amazing Stay See Contact How Still Little Regular
I've always had a dog phobia. Miranda July
Dog Phobia Had Always
My husband and I are two people who never thought we'd be married. Miranda July
People Thought Husband Married Never Who Two Two People
My love for my son just destroys me. I can barely even talk about it. Miranda July
Love Me Son Destroys About Talk Just Barely Even
I feel like my only safety is in being totally true to myself. Miranda July
Myself Safety Totally Only True Feel Like Being

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