Miranda Popkey Quotes

Truth didn't help. Everything that had ever happened could never be integrated into something coherent. The trick was picking the right moments. The trick was knowing when to lie. ~ Miranda Popkey

In the moments after she spoke I remember thinking that if she was in some way correct she was, however, not right. That of course life is random, a series of coincidences, etc., but that to live you must attempt to make sense of it, and that's what narrative's for. I believe this, people of a certain sensibility believe this. Mostly it's harmless. Though perhaps sometimes you find yourself doing things because you think the narrative arc calls for it, or because you've grown bored with your own plot, things you shouldn't do because they will, these things, hurt the other characters in your story, who are not characters after all, but people. But then people do evil often and with less elaborate justifications. ~ Miranda Popkey

I think," she said, "I thought I was telling you a story about how we fell in love." . . .

"What do you think the story is about now?" . . .

"Sometimes I think it's a story about being tricked. Not that he did it on purpose, but it wasn't accidental, him confiding in me, just then." Of course every confidence is a kind of manipulation. Or calculation. I trust you with this. Or maybe it's I want you to think that I trust you with this. ~ Miranda Popkey

To flirt was to expose one's desires, an act inherently shaming. ~ Miranda Popkey

Perhaps all this time I have been wrong about the story's protagonist, the man who runs out of road. Because he hasn't, not really. I mean, he can drive into the ocean. He can always decide to turn around. ~ Miranda Popkey

Telling people what you want, speaking desire, and I could hear the air quotes in her voice, the ones she used when she slipped into grad-school vernacular. It's like telling people how to hurt you, handing them instructions. ~ Miranda Popkey

I'm not saying writing comedy's brain surgery, but there is a certain pressure to it. It's the equivalent of doing homework that's going to end up on national television. ~ Miranda Hart

Every night my plan was to make it to dawn and then feel out the options. But that was just it
there were no options. There had been options, before the baby, but none of them had been pursued. I had not flown to Japan by myself to see what it was like there. I had not gone to nightclubs and said Tell me everything about yourself to strangers. I had not even gone to the movies by myself. I had been quiet when there was no reason to be quiet and consistent when consistency didn't matter. For the last twenty years I had lived as if I was taking care of a newborn baby. ~ Miranda July

In the middle of all the world's incessant noise, her message was music, and music was a thing that I'd mostly lived my life without. In the ten years since I'd last seen Miranda she'd come to somehow stand in for all the things I didn't have in life that were thought to make us human, all the absent music and touch and sympathy; in my mind she lived a separate life apart from her real one, and there she grew more pure and perfect with each passing day . . . In my mind Miranda had become a miracle. ~ Dexter Palmer

In my everyday life, I'm pretty normal. ~ Miranda Lambert

I was still feeling the old loss, just in a new way. ~ Miranda July

Acting is a freelance career ... you never stop having to prove yourself and fight for work. ~ Miranda Otto

Blue cloudless skies presided over comfortably warm days, kissed by bright sunlight and soothed with cool breezes. ~ Miranda Dickinson

I think I unknowingly seek people who are better than me in the sense of strength and wisdom. It's like I've got to know and trust that you have the answers and that you can carry me if needed. ~ Aeriel Miranda

Thinking you don't have unhealthy patterns is an unhealthy pattern in itself. And everyone has something unhealthy from their childhood. If you don't deal with it, it can ruin your life. ~ Candace Bushnell

Music was the first thing I did where I was naturally talented. ~ Miranda Lambert

Taking over Kingston Shoes would be the final string that would unravel and cut them off from one another for good. ~ Miranda Liasson

Amethyst is a meditative and calming stone that works in the emotional, spiritual, and physical planes to provide calm, balance, patience, and peace. ~ Miranda Kerr

I kept getting older while he stayed young, my tiny husband. ~ Miranda July

The man who will ultimately stand at her side will be forged in fire. If you burn easily, don't even bother. ~ Miranda Honfleur

I'm really fortunate because, in my career, I haven't had to deal with anybody trying to make me something I'm not. ~ Miranda Lambert

We love 'Fiddler.' We love 'West Side Story.' I want to be in that club. I want to be in the club that writes the musical that every high school does. ~ Lin-Manuel Miranda

Time isn't running out. It's not even real," he said, and I knew I had lost him - he was lost, circling in his own mind. "It's just a measure of distance we made up to understand things. Like an inch. Or a mile. ~ Megan Miranda

I follow the Dr. Peter D'Adamo Blood Type Diet as best I can. It's an eating and living guideline that understands you as a biochemical individual ... and I find it really works for me. I eat vegetables, ocean caught fish, and small amounts of organic free range chicken. ~ Miranda Kerr

There had been options, before the baby, but none of them had been pursued ... I had been quiet when there was no reason to be quiet, consisten when consistency didn't matter. For the last twenty years I had lived as if I were taking care of a newborn baby. ~ Miranda July

I'm a realist. Just because you had sex once doesn't mean you have to fall in love. ~ Candace Bushnell

To engender empathy and create a world using only words is the closest thing we have to magic. ~ Lin-Manuel Miranda

Dad?"
"Yeah?"
"She the reason you're pissed off all the time?"
"Yeah."
"She the reason you left mom?"
"Yeah."
"You love her?"
"Yeah."
There was a long pause.
"Cool."
"…yeah."
"Dad?"
"Jesus, Cage. What?"
"Does this mean I can have at Miranda?"
Christ.
"Yeah, you fuckin' hornball. Have at it."
"Cool. ~ Madeline Sheehan

I do read on holiday, but it tends to be very lowbrow. I'm into really camp biographies, and I'm a shameless fan of Jilly Cooper. ~ Miranda Raison

My dad keeps referring to me playing the piano when he's trying to teach me something in archery. ~ Miranda Leek

I love cover songs, but I always mess up the words! ~ Miranda Lambert

I don't want to get pigeonholed. ~ Miranda Lambert

Yo, guys," Ty says, peering down into the stroller. "What the hell is that thing? Satan's spawn?"
"You'd better watch it!" Henry says. He puts on a serious face, throws an arm around my shoulders, and pulls me in close. "That's our child you're
talking about."
Ty smiles, then looks at Jerry Rice. "Its eyes are seriously creeping me out. And I knew something was going on between you two."
"You're right," Henry says. "Woods is my husband, and I'm her wife. ~ Miranda Kenneally

remember, there's no such thing as perfect anything. You make your own future out of the chaos life hands you. Life is a giant slot machine, and honey, God only gives you so many pulls. ~ Miranda Liasson

I had to work at everything. ~ Miranda Lambert

We said together, wistfully, 'Life, eh?' It says everything without having to say anything: that we all experience moments of joyful or painful reflection, sometimes alone, sometimes sharing laughs and tears with others; that we all know and appreciate that however wonderful and precious life is, it can equally be a terribly confusing and mysterious beast. 'Life, eh? ~ Miranda Hart

We come from long lines of people destined never to meet. ~ Miranda July

Passion would come later, but now – now he only wanted to let her know that he loved her. ~ Miranda Bing

A parent's harsh judgment of a child carries with it near-divine authority. Over time, it becomes a governing voice in that child's head, whispering invective, raising doubts and quashing hope. ~ Miranda Davis

The point of a fairy tale is never in the details. The point is that it's easy to remember, to carry, to tell. We'll continue telling until the stones fall down, and then we'll rebuild and start again. ~ Miranda Richmond Mouillot

Miranda: You say you were my guardian angel. Does that mean you watched me all the time? Like when I got my period or doctored a zit or took a shower or-
Zachary: I'm an angel, not a Peeping Tom. ~ Cynthia Leitich Smith

I am so lucky. I used to think trust means "never let you down", but really, it's about love. Family can't always help fix a difficult situation, and everybody makes mistakes. We shouldn't expect perfect. But we can hope that the people we love love us enough to try to make it right. ~ Miranda Kenneally

I spend a lot of time obsessing about getting a dignified eight hours' sleep. ~ Miranda July

Sometimes I get kind of bored if I go like a month or so and I'm not doing anything. At first I'm like, 'Cool, I'll have a little time off and I'll get to hang out with friends,' but then after a little while goes by I'm like, 'Oh,' and I really wish that I could go back and start doing work again. ~ Miranda Cosgrove

Miranda, how in God's name did you end up here?"
"Well," Miranda said. "It's a sweet tale, about kittens and puppies and rainbows and love. ~ Courtney Milan