Miranda July Quotes

You can't live on planet rock star 24/7; you have to be down and dirty and have some fun.

Neither one of us could be sure we'd get our money back on this investment, but we just wanted to have company of our own for once because we were best friends.

I longed to be a writer, always wanted to be a writer.

I wanted to see New York . . . so I tried to see how fast I could do it in.

I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.

If you win power, remember why you wanted it.

Happiness is a powerful thing. It freed me to do what I always wanted to do.

Give her the continent and she wanted the hemisphere.

I wanted to create something really aggressive and psychedelic

… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.

I went solo because I could do much better what I wanted to do. I didn't have to ask or discuss things and ideas that are already shaped in my head.

I didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable.

All my life I wanted to play golf like Jack Nicklaus, and now I do.

Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.

Yo! You’re my dope dealer not my thesis adviser. If I wanted your opinion about my dissertation, I’d have asked for it, Motherfucker!

I have never wanted to claim I know what is best for Israel.

I feel like I've done everything I can, and what I wanted to do.

I cannot say why I wanted to paint. The only answer is in the pictures themselves.

I want people to know that I'm a real person, and that I've been through normal situations, like crushes and heartbreaks.

I have been around conservatives my entire life. I have never met a single human being, in any place, who wanted to ban contraceptives.

The future was in our own hands. If we wanted a world where such things were possible, it was for us to make it.

and did you get what you wanted from this life even so? i did.

I wish I had more time to sit down and be a little bit more normal.

I sleep - laying down, not on the ceiling. Nothing about my life is crazy. I fly a lot, I travel a lot. I eat and sleep like everyone else.