Miranda July Quotes

Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.

Otherness is a big thing for me. I'm always drawn to characters that live lives that I couldn't lead.

People always ask 'Why is Bubba different?' They're just trying to figure it out.

If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself

I know I'm different, but I don't think about it.

Everybody's born to be different, that's the one thing that makes us the same.

It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.

I wanted to be, you know, just no different than anybody else.

The best piece of advice that I remember probably on a daily basis is to accept everything about me that is different. That is what makes me special.

I think they were scared of me because I was different. I've always asked, 'Why? Why do I have to do that? Why do I have to look this way? Why do I have to dress this way? Why do I have to behave this way?'

I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.

I'm a mammal at the end. I breathe out and breathe in and eat. At the end, when we go to sleep, nobody lives this political definition. It's something we connect by and we try to understand each other by, but at the end, we know that this is not who we are.

We are all a unique person with everyone we meet.

'Different' is such a good word. For me, ever since I was little, I always felt that something was off. And I just didn't have the resources to - I just didn't know what it was.

Everybody's like everybody else, and everybody's different from everybody else.

Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in being different at the time in my life.

It's the differences in people that help you realize who you are. Even if we silently pass each other on the street.

I always knew that there was something that made me different, and by the time I was in high school, I understood what it was.

Since I don't look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different. But different is good.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else

Equal doesn't mean identical.

The things that make me different are the things that make me.

I love figuring out a stranger, sitting down and learning about their loves and struggles and everything. People are my jam.

Sometimes, we only get to know someone as one aspect of who they are. Then you start peeling back the layers and understanding more and more about who they are - their vulnerabilities, their fears, their joys, all those other words that equal humanity.

I tried to be different; I didn't want to be like everybody else.