Character Quotes by Miranda July

9 Character quotes by Miranda July

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Miranda July’s nine reflections on character are quirky and off‑beat, inviting readers to pause and consider the oddities of everyday self‑perception.

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Narrative and characters have always interested me. I never tried to alienate an audience. Of course, gradually, I wanted a bigger and…

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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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If you want to have a character who falls into crisis, all you have to do is turn the Internet off, and…

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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…

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I made some shorts that I'm not in. I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to…

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Most great filmmakers are good at place. Like how people say, like, "The city itself is a character in the movie," you…

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I supposed this was one reason why people got married, to make a fiction that was tellable. It wasn’t just movies that…

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The idea that you might end up in a job that doesn't allow you to be who you are, over the course…

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Writing a novel was like I had some Play-Doh to work with and could just keep working with it - doing a…

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Would she understand that time had stopped while she was gone.

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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…

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“It wasn't good, he wasn't good, he did not have good intentions. I stood there, and he stood there. He breathed out the bitter…

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The whole thing of working in all these different mediums, it's just so that I can always be playing hooky from one of them.…

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The thing I am most interested in is power relations - it is so easy in a relationship like that [of an artist and…

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Are you angry? Punch a pillow. Was it satisfying? Not hardly. These days people are too angry for punching. What you might try is…

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It was a tiny sound but it woke me up because it was a human sound.

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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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“We were anxious to begin our life as people who had no people. And it was easy to find an apartment because we had…

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I'm always the kind of friend or girlfriend who suggests, when there's some cataclysmic problem in the relationship, I'm like, "Well, maybe we can…

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I wrestle my fears with every big decision I make. Ultimately, maybe all that wrestling does is make you sick of your own thoughts,…

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When I had a baby, I was consumed with my body.

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I'm quite a cerebral person. Often I feel quite stuck in that.

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Somewhat predictably, I'm much more comfortable in front of an audience - and a big audience is even better - than faced with one…

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We humans are here because nothing can be perfect. There always have to be some living things that are unsatisfied, itchy, trying too hard.…

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