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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 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
Not that there is anything wrong with confessional songwriting, there are plenty of people that do that I admire. I think it is great; it just isn’t how I do things.
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Admire People Thinking
There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters – ‘He does this, and she’s a really interesting character because she does this.’ I’m not like that at all. I’m not an actory actor.
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Character Doe Interesting
Every show is unique; some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that’s just the way they do things. It’s like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it’s due.
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Everything School Second Unique Writing
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
If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be ‘Calm down!’
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Advice Giving Self
I don’t have control over what’s on screen, and that’s terrifying.
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Control Screens Terrifying
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
The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
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Jobs Party Red
Sometimes Matt and I just do duets folk-style. Part of the fun of seeing a live show is having it be different from the way that you hear it in your bedroom or wherever you listen to music.
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Duet Listen Music Part Shows Sometimes
I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There’s something really, really fun about that.
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Crazy Fun People
I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I’m an old-fashioned gal.
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Clothes Comedy Vintage
For those of us who try to keep remembering, Try to do our better than our best. Think of all the children in the drifts of snow. Winners never quit, but winters never rest.
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Children Thinking Winter
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 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
I listened to a lot of Joni Mitchell in high school. She was sort of an inspiration to me. I think she’s a great lyricist, and she makes interesting choices.
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Inspiration School Thinking

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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