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I’ve always been a late bloomer with a lot of things, just in general, so I think this was something that needed to come to fruition in this particular way.

Zooey Deschanel

I have trouble actually describing myself because I’m always suspicious of people who start describing themselves. I’m like, “OK, why are you trying to tell me what you are?”
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People Trouble Trying
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 am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.
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Late Other Sometimes Things
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
Oh my God, there are so many songs I wish I had written. ‘Waters of March,’ I wish I had written ‘My Baby Just Cares for Me,’ I wish I had written ‘This Will Be Our Year,’ I mean, there’s millions of them. ‘Wouldn’t It Be Nice?’
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Baby Nice Song
My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself.
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People Skinny Tights
I don’t like to plan harmonies too much, because there’s something fun that happens when you just sing a pass, then sing another pass, and layer them on top of each other.
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Fun Layers Much Too
I think good actors tend to be really funny.
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Actors Funny Good 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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Art Feeling Scare Thinking True
Nothing could be as hard as middle school.
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Middle Nothing School
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 don’t know why femininity should be associated with weakness. Women should be free to express who they are without thinking, ‘I need to act like a man, or I need to tone it down to be successful.’ That’s a very good way to keep women down.
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Badass Funny Motivational Women
It’s very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don’t mean to say it’s very personal, like the lyrics mean something personal to me. When I write a song, that’s my taste in music – my taste in chord progressions and melodies.
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Mean Something Song Writing.Personal
If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be ‘Calm down!’
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Advice Giving Self
Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.
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Comedy Love Works
The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
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Jobs Party Red

I’ve always been a late bloomer with a lot of things, just in general, so I think this was something that needed to come to fruition in this particular way.

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