Miranda July: Likeness

Miranda July is American performance artist, musician and writer. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.

Miranda July: 140 quotes1 like

“Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.”

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

“You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, but it's not true. Generally, people don't like each other very much. And that goes for friends, too.”

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

“But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us.”

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

“That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it.”

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

“It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even paint needs repainting.”

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

“He pulled away, but his eyes held my eyes like hands.”

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

“It was an act of devotion. A little like writing or loving someone — it doesn’t always feel worthwhile, but not giving up somehow creates unexpected meaning over time.”

Source: It Chooses You

“In an ideal world, we would have been orphans. We felt like orphans and we felt deserving of the pity that orphans get, but embarrassingly enough, we had parents.”

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

“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.”

On her film Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005), in an interview at Apple.com http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/in-action/?movie=july

“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.”

"The Man on the Stairs" in Fence (Spring/Summer 2004)

“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.”

Pretty Cool People interview (2007)

“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.”

As quoted in "Miranda July Is Totally Not Kidding" by Katrina Onstad, in The New York Times (14 July 2011) http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/magazine/the-make-believer.html?_r=0&pagewanted=all