Miranda July Quotes
People tend to stick to their own size group because it's easier on the neck. Unless they are romantically involved, in which case the size difference is sexy. It means: I am willing to go the distance for you.
Quotes to Explore
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'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.
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If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified in his or her own mind, or the scene will come across as being about the author's views rather than about the character's.
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In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
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Having a son is not all pleasure.
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On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
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To properly prepare to receive personal revelation, we must repent, ask through prayer, be obedient, search the scriptures, fast, think pure thoughts, and develop a spirit of reverence.
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I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.
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When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God.
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Every morning, I can lose myself just by looking at my son.
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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
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No one knows for sure if you can inherit a stammer, and so I worry that my baby might. It's why I want to work on my speech before he arrives. I don't want him to hear me stammer.
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To be feminist doesn't mean you can't be submissive.
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It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
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I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.
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The stick-thin thing, I'm kind of just like, 'Not gonna do it' and 'I couldn't.'
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I think of sports writers as mediating between two worlds. Athletes probably think of sports writers as not macho enough. And people in high culture probably think of sports writers as jocks or something. They are in an interestingly complex position in which they have to mediate the world of body and the world of words.
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People tend to stick to their own size group because it's easier on the neck. Unless they are romantically involved, in which case the size difference is sexy. It means: I am willing to go the distance for you.
