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I’m a romantic, but I’m not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me.

Zooey Deschanel

My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.
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Babysitting Motherly Stuff
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
I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.
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Appreciate Restraint Songwriters
When I was 13, I wasn’t the coolest kid in my class, and that inner dork is a wonderful thing to have.
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Class Kids Wonderful
I will wear tights even if it’s 100 degrees outside. Tights are my safety blanket.
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Degrees Safety Tights
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
It’s great, because we’ve had some really great people playing with us who really have studied the record and been able to recreate a lot of what was done. But I would need a choir of eight, probably, to do all of the backup vocals.
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Eight Needs People
If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be ‘Calm down!’
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Advice Giving Self
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
If I’m going to be ‘too’ anything, ‘too cute’ is fine. I love puppies. So what? Who hates puppies?
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Cute Hate Puppy
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
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
I think there’s a certain space people have decided I occupy – the funny-sidekick thing.
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People Space Thinking
I’m a big fan of the ’80s fantasy genre that I grew up watching, movies like “Krull” and “Clash of the Titans” and “Time Bandits” and all that stuff.
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Fans Fantasy Stuff
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
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

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