Miranda July Quotes
I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.
Quotes to Explore
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Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there's always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
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Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
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I want to try everything.
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I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.
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I first started asking big questions when I was 12, and by big questions, I mean, 'Why are we here? What is this business? We're alive for a few short decades and then poof, we're out of here.'
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It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!
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I never forgot being poor, and I never stopped thinking how fortunate I am.
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I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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What I want you to take seriously is what we have to do for the youth.
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'Do I look like someone who has something to do here on Earth?' - That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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Life is bigger than cinema. Cinema is just a part of life, so I never take success or failure seriously.
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I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.
