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I love telling stories. I think of myself as a storyteller, and I don’t feel bound by being just a singer or an actress. First, I’m a storyteller, and history is stories – the most compelling stories.

Zooey Deschanel

I’ve always had a really great time being in movies and writing music when I get home. The more creative I am, the more it feeds into other creative aspects of my life.
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Creative Home Writing
I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.
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Appreciate Restraint Songwriters
Making movies, you’re like an independent contractor – you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad.
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Bad Good Independent Jobs
I think there’s a certain space people have decided I occupy – the funny-sidekick thing.
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People Space Thinking
There’s nothing like having a great friends when you see them, you get that joy – that you can’t really compare it with anything else.
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Compare Friend Great Joy
I think I’d say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.
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Reflection Specific Thinking
Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips music of what makes it exciting.
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Forever People Uniform
I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don’t try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
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Clever Simple Song
Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.
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Looks Shape Suits You
I’m not cynical about love at all. I’m very practical. I think love takes up a lot of time.
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Cynical Practicals Thinking
I’ve always been really picky about roles and make a point of reminding myself that it’s not about the money – because, obviously, there’s a lot of money to be made in this business if you’re willing to do anything.
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Made Picky Reminding Roles
I’ve had experiences where I wasn’t allowed to change words around at all because you have to say everything, exactly as written on the page.
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Character Fun Pages
Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier.
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Favorite Feels Summer
I’ve been watching a lot of Joni Mitchell YouTube clips and I can’t believe her transformation from this folk singer in Canada.
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Believe Canada Singers
I’ll have these internal moments where I’m empathizing with someone else or feeling something myself, but I’m like, “How can I see the best in this situation?” Sometimes those are the moments where you can have the most clarity.
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Clarity Feelings Sometimes
I like being feminine. I think it’s good to be feminine. We don’t need to look like men or dress like men or talk like men to be powerful. We can be powerful in our own way, our own feminine way.
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Feminine Good Men Powerful Way

I love telling stories. I think of myself as a storyteller, and I don’t feel bound by being just a singer or an actress. First, I’m a storyteller, and history is stories – the most compelling stories.

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I love telling stories. I think of myself as a storyteller, and I don’t feel bound by being just a singer or an actress. First, I’m a storyteller, and history is stories – the most compelling stories.

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