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Women I admired growing up – Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep – were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin.

Zooey Deschanel

I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it’s very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn’t: ‘Oh, you’re making fun of me right now.’ And I wasn’t!
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Character Fun People Sarcastic Time
I’m not going to say I’m a big girl. I’m a very small person, but I’m a healthy weight. That might be a little weird for Hollywood.
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Girl Healthy Littles
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
There’s something about guitars, they’re just so big, you know what I mean? You’re just like, ‘Ugh!’ It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming.
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Mean Opposites Ukulele
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
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
Classic Christmas cookies are really time-consuming. Instead, make a bar you can bake in a pan and just cut up, like a brownie or a blondie or a shortbread, which still has that Christmas vibe.
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Bars Cookies Cutting
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 will wear tights even if it’s 100 degrees outside. Tights are my safety blanket.
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Degrees Safety Tights
Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.
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Comedy Love Works
I love having a lot of content. I prefer to have constant stimulation.
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Constant Lot Prefer Stimulation
For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
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Down Sitting Working Writing
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 hate camping, but I love summer camp.
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Camping Hate Summer
I can’t go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me.
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Goes Thinking Writing
My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.
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Babysitting Motherly Stuff

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