Miranda July Quotes

Louise Bonnet is a Los Angeles-based painter of round, fleshy, almost obscene shapes and people. But hers is a very clean, friendly cartoon world, so there's this tension between harmlessness and perversion that is totally unsettling.

Miranda July

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PeopleWorldCleanCartoonTension

I grew up in a household in which they'd always play old skool classic R&B love songs - Al Green, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye... And my mom has even said that, when I was in her womb, she'd put the headphones to her stomach and play those songs to me!

Jeremih

LoveMeMomGreenPlaySaid

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

John Mayer

SomeoneSoberAddictionNeverExcept

I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang.

Jeff Ament

PercussionPlayedKeyboardsSang

My costar James Lafferty, and his little brother Stuart Lafferty, and another buddy of ours, Ian Shive, are working on this project called 'Generation Wild.' It's about getting people to realize that being outdoors is not scary - you can go on adventures like we do, in national parks, and practically in your own backyard.

Stephen Colletti

BrotherPeopleOutdoorsGeneration

I have short hands. That's why I have to bend up to notes; I can't always reach the frets.

Robin Trower

ShortReachHandsWhyBendAlways

Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time.

Robert Vaughn

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Lady Gaga has a very unjaded intelligence. It's brilliant, 'cause it's anti-snob.

Mika

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I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something, it's just a question of finding this.

Diana Wynne Jones

PeopleStrongGeniusEncouragement

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

Doris Lessing

LifeWorkHard WorkTruthGreatYou

My interest is that there is a disconnect between the science and the size of the threat that people mention about nature, the planet and the climate, and the emotion that this triggers. So we are supposed to be extremely frightened people, but despite that we appear to sleep pretty well.

Bruno Latour

NatureScienceSleepPeopleEmotion

I think they, Peter McCullough was, turns out was not a good CEO.

Arthur Rock

GoodThinkOutCEOI ThinkPeter

Many people from many different walks of life have marriages that break up, and those are deeply personal, deeply painful but ultimately private matters.

Nicola Sturgeon

LifePeoplePersonalMattersBreak

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