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I think there’s a certain space people have decided I occupy – the funny-sidekick thing.

Zooey Deschanel

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
I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it’s like I try so hard and then people still say I’m offbeat. I’ve learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.
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Actors People Trying
You can’t know if someone’s really your best friend. I think the measure of that is you could not see each other for six months and then when you see each other you laugh the same way you did when you were a little kid.
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Kids Laughing Thinking
It’s never too late for a coffee. After all it’s morning somewhere in the world.
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Coffee Late Morning Too
I would say I know nothing about the music business, in a nice sort of way. I totally forgot I was in that music video. That’s so funny.
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Nice Video Way
Well, my piano’s really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the ’60s that’s blond, wood, and black, and I also have one from the ’20s from Chicago – not a well-known brand or anything.
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Beautiful Piano Two
We are all made of air There’s stars in my eyes and there’s sun in my hair And I’m runnin’ away, it makes me feel better
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Better Eye Feel Stars
One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth.
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Christmas Holiday Love Things
I also feel like it’s the right of the people hearing them to have their own interpretations of what these songs mean. Sometimes people will see things that I don’t see.
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Mean People Song
I’m into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn’t feel true, I don’t want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that’s why I don’t always fit into the world of performing arts.
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Art Feeling Scare Thinking True
That’s one of the most exciting things for me about listening to records: It’s a moment in time, and the less it’s messed with the more powerful it is. I wanted at least one song on the record to be just completely about the moment.
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Listening Powerful Song
If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be ‘Calm down!’
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Advice Giving Self
The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, ‘Oh my God!’
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Clubs Jobs Singing
I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.
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Late Other Sometimes Things
One of the things I love about doing things that are creative is that I feel like it’s my right as an artist not to be affected by the reactions of those people that are going to hear my songs.
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Artist Hear Song Reaction Thing
Women I admired growing up – Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep – were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin.
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Beautiful Growing Pilates

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