Miranda July Quotes

I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

I know I'm never going to be a big pop star, because I'm not willing to conform.

I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.

There are those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.

It makes us feel normal when people think we're being too arty or whatever.

People don't want to be diverse, or they're scared to be diverse. People just dress a certain way to fit in but sometimes being outside of the box is the cool thing to do.

When you're younger, all you want to do is fit in, and then the older you get, you don't want to fit in, you want to stand out.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

If you make a show of going against the times, flaunting your unconventional ideas and unorthodox way, people will think that you only want attention and that you look down upon them.They will find away to punish you for making them feel inferior. It is far safer to blend in and nurture the common touch. Share your originality only with tolerant friends and those who are sure to appreciate your uniqueness.

The burden of originality is one that most people don't want to accept. They'd rather sit in front of the TV and let that tell them what they're supposed to like, what they're supposed to buy, and what they're supposed to laugh at.

There are so many things that you're supposed to conform to as an actress. Keep your mouth shut. Look pretty. Be a fashionista. I'm not stylish. I don't want to become this character.

People have certain ideas of what they think you should be, and I have fought that categorisation my whole life.

I think giving yourself permission to be weird is amazing. After all what does it mean to be normal?

People like to put you into a box. I'm afraid I don't sit in a box.

There's part of our culture where uniqueness is celebrated and appreciated and another part of our culture where this one way to be - one color hair, one sized breasts, one kind of nose - that's also front and center.

This world has a way of trying to homogenize you. Trying to sanitize you. Trying to scrub you of your unique divine genius. This world wants to make you regular.

Don't try to stand out that much for prom. Be yourself.

It was not a good thing in my family to be a 'personality.'

Everyone is being told by society to talk this way, to dress that way, to be this person or to be that person, and it's so important to just maintain a sense of self.

You don't always have to be popular and do things everyone else is doing.

Fashion, which often seems to be on a path to be bigger, more Instagram-ready, can also achieve its best through sincerity.

I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

When a man cuts himself absolutely adrift from custom, what an astonishingly light spar floats him! How few his wants are, after all!

It isn't till now, in the American Century, as we have recklessly dubbed it, that tribal pressures toward conformity have been brought to bear so ruthlessly upon men and women seeking to work creatively.