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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.

Zooey Deschanel

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
It’s great, because we’ve had some really great people playing with us who really have studied the record and been able to recreate a lot of what was done. But I would need a choir of eight, probably, to do all of the backup vocals.
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Eight Needs People
Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips music of what makes it exciting.
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Forever People Uniform
Women I admired growing up – Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep – were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin.
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Beautiful Growing Pilates
I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I’m an old-fashioned gal.
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Clothes Comedy Vintage
I’m not cynical about love at all. I’m very practical. I think love takes up a lot of time.
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Cynical Practicals Thinking
I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.
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Christmas Singing Song
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
I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There’s something really, really fun about that.
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Crazy Fun People
I’m not going to say I’m a big girl. I’m a very small person, but I’m a healthy weight. That might be a little weird for Hollywood.
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Girl Healthy Littles
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 would watch ‘Wizard of Oz,’ like every day, when I was two. I had a hard time understanding that I couldn’t go into the film, because it felt so real to me.
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Hard Real Times Two
I think the best comedic actors don’t play it for comedy, they play it for reality. Then you find it funny because it’s real. Playing the genre is the worst thing you can do – it’s embarrassing.
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Play Real Thinking
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 like having a schedule. I tend to be the type of person that thrives on something being regular.
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Schedules Thrive Type
In an ideal world no one would talk before 10am. People would just hug, because waking up is really hard.
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Hug People Wake

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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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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