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For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.

Zooey Deschanel

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
I don’t like plain nails. I get sad.
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Beauty Nails Plain
It’s nice that there are movies and songs about romance – it’s what motivates us as human beings. I’m all for being brainwashed by rom-coms.
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Nice Romance Song
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
Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I’d say it’s appealing to 80% men and 20% women.
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College Men Site
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 love indie movies. I think that independent cinema is where it’s at and where a lot of trends begin. It’s where new filmmakers are breaking through.
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Cinema Independent Thinking
I think that it’s our responsibility to create a world in which girls can grow up and not have to limit their dreams or possibilities.
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Children Dream Girl
People sometimes say, ‘Oh, you were a movie star,’ and I’m like, ‘No, I was a supporting actress.’ I wasn’t an A-list actress, and I’m fine with that. I’m proud of what I did in film.
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People Proud Stars
You don’t have to wear expensive clothes to look good.
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Clothes Expensive Clothes Looks
I have been a harmony enthusiast since I was a child, singing in choir and with friends growing up. I always put a ton of harmonies on my demos.
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Children Growing Singing Up
I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I’m the same person.
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Awareness Faces Girl
I’ve always straddled a weird line – there’s a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I’m the outsider who’s on the inside.
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Lines Outsiders Stuff
I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.
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Appreciate Restraint Songwriters
The internet’s like one big bathroom wall with a lot of people who anonymously can say really mean things. It’s fine, I believe in freedom of speech and I think people should think what they want, but I don’t care to hear it.
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Believe Freedom Wall
I’d be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means… Yeah, authentic and creative.
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Creative Mean People

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