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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.

Zooey Deschanel

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.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Children Dream Girl
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
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 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
Anyone who knows me knows that I am really into hair. I’m a real girly girl and love doing my hair and experimenting with different styles.
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Girl Hair Real
I think making a movie or a record, the best things happen by accident – and those end up being the magic. Every time I’ve followed my gut it’s been better than when I’ve tried to do what I was supposed to do.
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Every Magic Records Thinking Time
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
I like to make colored xeroxes of things. I clip out pictures of Liza Minelli and her husband from magazines and I fax them to people anonymously.
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Fax Husband People
I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.
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Late Other Sometimes Things
I finally figured out how to read origami directions.
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Figured Origami Out
In a lot of movies, you’ll see people on crazy dates, and you’re like, ‘No one would ever do that!’
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Crazy Movies People
I’ve never pursued a role. I always hear stories about actors going after parts and I’m, like, ‘How do they do that?’ It seems so weird. It seems like a total myth or something.
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Actors Roles Stories
I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There’s something really, really fun about that.
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Crazy Fun People
My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.
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Babysitting Motherly Stuff
There are so many cute vintage dresses made out of synthetics from the ’60s and ’70s – but they’re so itchy and hot. It’s not worth it!
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Cute Dresses Vintage
I don’t like plain nails. I get sad.
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Beauty Nails Plain

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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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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