Miranda July Quotes

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• Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person's face as you pass them on the street: those faces are for you.…
• The word God asks a question and then answers it before there is any chance to wonder.
• LA isn’t a walking city, or a subway city, so if someone isn’t in my house or my car we’ll never be together, not even…
• It would require constant vigilance to not replace each person with my own fictional version of them.
• It was a tiny sound but it woke me up because it was a human sound.
• Since I started making art, I've always had some kind of project that was really about and for other people, because I think I just…
• Sometimes I lie in bed trying to decide which of my friends I truly care about, and I always come to the same conclusion: none…
• I gave you things I wasn't sure I even had.
• The job of the artist is to point at things.
• An erratum is a correction inserted into a book after publication. It's a nice thing to collect because you can't go after them, you just…
• The things keeping you back-these embarrassing, boring, stupid obstacles-are the heart of what it is to be human. They’re the whole reason for making and…
• After I had my son I looked everywhere for a book that might serve as some kind of mirror. I bought so many silly books.…
• I realize that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before we ask someone to love us. It is…
• Where do we come from? Do souls really exist? I can't answer these questions, especially not at 6am.
• I spend a lot of time obsessing about getting a dignified eight hours' sleep.
• I'm not a cinephile. My films don't reference films. I'm more interested in rhythm and feeling.
• My earliest memory is aged three, seeing sunlight on water and feeling it was really magical.
• 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.
• 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…
• I didn't have any vices before the Internet. There are a lot of cracks in the day, moments where you don't know what to do…

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