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Zooey Deschanel

I think my own personal style always ends up seeping into characters that I play. I’ve always had a very distinct idea of fashion for myself, and what a character should wear.
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Character Fashion Thinking
Girls get competitive, as though there’s only one spot in the world for everything _ but that’s not true. We need to stick together and see there’s more to life than pleasing men. It’s important not to cut yourself off from female friendships. I think sometimes girls get scared of other girls, but you need each other.
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Cutting Girl Men
My mom told me when I get compliments to cover my ears.
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Compliment Ears Mom
If you can make a character likable that’s not very nice, that’s the challenge of the job.
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Character Jobs Nice
I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.
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Feelings Tired Years
Love is individual to each person and I don’t think you can define it before experiencing it because it isn’t going to be the same for everybody.
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Individual Love Thinking
I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that’s amazing when people can do that, but I think there’s room for the tone singers. And there aren’t a lot of them.
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Gymnastics People Thinking
I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards – Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.
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Hart Jazz Thinking
I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.
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Appreciate Restraint Songwriters
O-o-old habits die hard when you got, when you got a sentimental heart Piece of the puzzle, you’re my missing part Oh what can you do with a sentimental heart?
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Habits Heart Life Old
Yeah, well, we were looking for something sort of anonymous. It suggests what it is, but I like that it’s modest.
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Ideas Kind Stars
I was never no, never no, never enough, But I can try, I can try to toughen up.
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Enough Toughen Trying
In an ideal world no one would talk before 10am. People would just hug, because waking up is really hard.
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Hug People Wake
It’s really fun to say no sometimes. I just don’t want to discount how fun it is to say no and exercise your right to say no, and – as a girl – it’s important to know how to say no… and that no means no!
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Fun Girl Important Mean
My sister and I do to what we love to do and do what we want to do, so that sort of started us off having a sense of ‘Do this because you love it’ not ‘Do this because you want to be famous.’
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Logos Sister Want
I have had brown hair and bangs since I was 2. One year I dyed it blonde, which felt so weird.
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Bangs Hair Years

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