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I feel like making music because – and this has much to do with the way I was able to make this record – there’s more of myself in it.

Zooey Deschanel

My mom told me when I get compliments to cover my ears.
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Compliment Ears Mom
For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
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Down Sitting Working Writing
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 always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it’s like I try so hard and then people still say I’m offbeat. I’ve learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.
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Actors People Trying
I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I’ve found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends.
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Female Girl Guy Mean
I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.
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Christmas Singing Song
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’ve had experiences where I wasn’t allowed to change words around at all because you have to say everything, exactly as written on the page.
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Character Fun Pages
You can’t know if someone’s really your best friend. I think the measure of that is you could not see each other for six months and then when you see each other you laugh the same way you did when you were a little kid.
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Kids Laughing Thinking
To be a gluten-free vegan is, like, the most difficult thing you can possibly be.
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Difficult Gluten Vegan
I have a music career as well, so I was going to either be an actress or a musician. Then, I did both. But, I was always going to do something creative.
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Careers Creative Musician
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
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
I like to learn things slow, I like learning alot, I like to get it all again and in the end, You know you get what you got…
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Ends Knows Learn Slow
I like a lot of old films, I like a lot old music, and a lot of it has to do with the fact that I like the idea of knowing what happens before, so that I can understand it.
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Facts Ideas Knowing
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 feel like making music because – and this has much to do with the way I was able to make this record – there’s more of myself in it.

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I feel like making music because – and this has much to do with the way I was able to make this record – there’s more of myself in it.

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