For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
ZOOEY DESCHANELI’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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Yeah, well, we were looking for something sort of anonymous. It suggests what it is, but I like that it’s modest.
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I will wear tights even if it’s 100 degrees outside. Tights are my safety blanket.
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True love that lasts forever… yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married for 70 years. I come from a long line of true loves.
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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.
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I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, ‘Well you’re never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don’t even try.’ I mean, I care about being pretty, but it’s not my most valued thing.
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In an ideal world no one would talk before 10am. People would just hug, because waking up is really hard.
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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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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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Everyone needs a theme song! It should make you feel like a million dollars.
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I don’t have control over what’s on screen, and that’s terrifying.
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One of the things I love about doing things that are creative is that I feel like it’s my right as an artist not to be affected by the reactions of those people that are going to hear my songs.
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Love is individual to each person and I don’t think you can define it before experiencing it because it isn’t going to be the same for everybody.
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If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be ‘Calm down!’
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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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There is a lot you can find out about yourself through knowing about history. I have always been attracted to things that are old. I have just always found such things interesting and compelling.
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