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Miranda July

17 quotes

“Now began the part of her life where she was just very beautiful. Except for nothing. Only winners will know what this feels like. Have you ever wanted something very badly and then gotten it. Then you know that winning is many things, but it is never the thing you thought it would be.”
Miranda July (born 1974) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Birthmark" in Paris Review (Spring 2003)
“They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned. There were empty rooms in the house where they had meant to put their love and they worked together to fill these rooms with high-end, consumer-grade equipment. It was a tight situation. The next sudden move would have to be through the wall.”
Miranda July (born 1974) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Birthmark" in Paris Review (Spring 2003)
“It was a tiny sound but it woke me up because it was a human sound.”
Miranda July (born 1974) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Man on the Stairs" in Fence (Spring/Summer 2004)
“That is my problem with life, I just rush through it, like I'm being chased. Even things whose whole point is slowness, like drinking relaxing tea. When I drink relaxing tea I suck it down like I'm in a contest for who can drink relaxing tea the quickest.”
Miranda July (born 1974) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Man on the Stairs" in Fence (Spring/Summer 2004)
“I wanted to make the movie feel like life feels to me — and life feels both sad and dark and confusing and more than hopeful — it feels like something totally incredible could happen at any moment and with no explanation.”
Miranda July (born 1974) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her film Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), in an interview at Apple.com
“I think there’s something spiritual in a very day-to-day, mundane existence. It’s impossible to articulate, and it’s happening now, almost like a perverse secret. . . . That’s always sort of fascinating to me.”
Miranda July (born 1974) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Miranda July Is Totally Not Kidding" by Katrina Onstad, in The New York Times (14 July 2011)
“I’m totally not kidding. … Life is too short. This is all too hard to do to actually be kidding about the whole thing.”
Miranda July (born 1974) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Miranda July Is Totally Not Kidding" by Katrina Onstad, in The New York Times (14 July 2011)
“At this point, I’ve come to realize that where you are, the space you’re in, what you wear, this one body that you’re in for this life — those of course matter because you are really here, you’re not just an idea in your head. And there is something profound about noticing again and again that you’re here.”
Miranda July (born 1974) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: You’re Not Just an Idea in Your Head: A Conversation with Miranda July" by Lily Felsenthal and Debbie Ou, Los Angeles Review of Books (16 June 2024)
“I pressed my lips against his ear and whispered, again, It's not your fault. Perhaps this was really the only thing I had ever wanted to say to anyone, and be told. I imagined couples at the altar, standing before the priest, declaring It's not your fault to each other, before kissing in the union.”
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“Common sense and the truth should feel authorless, writ by time itself. It is actually really hard to write something that will make a terminally ill person feel better. And Positive has rules, you can't just lift your guidance from the Bible or a book about Zen; they want original material. So far none of my submissions have gotten in, but I'm getting closer.”
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“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 need that balance to feel sane myself — you know?”
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“I guess my favorite thing in the world is when I look at a piece of art, or read a story, or watch a movie where I walk away feeling like "Oh my god — I have to do something, I have to make something or talk to someone — things are not the same anymore" — and so I try to make work where you come away with that feeling. It's like, yeah, you're thinking about what you just saw, but even more than that — you feel able, you feel like, kind of propelled.”
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“No one's keeping track — no one's making of an archive of these "unimportant" things, you know… but now we have an archive … and in a way, the second there's many, it becomes proof of something, something that's so unspecific — that it's — that it's lively — to me that's really alive — that kind of half nauseous, half beautiful feeling.”
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“What I like best is the kind of complicated messed up truth, you know … the one that's so imperfect that you know it's true.”
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“I think, ultimately, my character comes to think that the desire for a shared dream, a shared fantasy, a shared world, was really an attempt at a recreation of a certain kind of childhood pain. Our relationships are built on our first experiences with our parents, so the idea that longing and fantasy and boundarylessness had been established then and didn’t quite function in an adult landscape was — I mean, it’s still quite slippery for me to talk about in this way, and in fiction I felt like I had a shot. You don’t have to be articulate, which I think is important — you can let characters be dumb and stumbling. That is what art can do that talking about art can’t.”
Miranda July (born 1974) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: You’re Not Just an Idea in Your Head: A Conversation with Miranda July" by Lily Felsenthal and Debbie Ou, Los Angeles Review of Books (16 June 2024)
“I pretended that I was pausing before telling him about the secret feeling of joy that I hide in my chest, waiting, waiting, waiting for someone to notice that I rise each morning seemingly with nothing to live for, but I do rise, and it is only because of this secret joy, God's love, in my chest. I looked down from the sky and into his eyes and I said, It wasn't your fault. I excused him for the cover and for everything else. For not yet being a New Man. We fell into silence then; he did not ask me any more questions. I was still happy to sit there beside him, but that is only because I have very, very low expectations of most people, and he had now become Most People.”
Miranda July (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do you have doubts about life? Are you unsure if it is really worth the trouble? 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. And the street itself, and the ground under the street, and the ball of fire underneath the ground: all these things are for you. They are as much for you as they are for other people. Remember this when you wake up in the morning and think you have nothing. Stand up and face the east. Now praise the sky and praise the light within each person under the sky. It's okay to be unsure. But praise, praise, praise.”
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