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I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.

Zooey Deschanel

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
That is so personal, and it’s my pet peeve when people press you on it. And it’s always women who get asked! Is anybody saying that to George Clooney?
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People Pet Presses
I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I’m an old-fashioned gal.
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Clothes Comedy Vintage
For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
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Down Sitting Working Writing
I’ve always straddled a weird line – there’s a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I’m the outsider who’s on the inside.
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Lines Outsiders Stuff
Making movies, you’re like an independent contractor – you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad.
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Bad Good Independent Jobs
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
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
There are so many cute vintage dresses made out of synthetics from the ’60s and ’70s – but they’re so itchy and hot. It’s not worth it!
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Cute Dresses Vintage
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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Ideas Kind Stars
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
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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Attracted History Interesting Knowing
It can make you a little crazy when you are too connected to a product.
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Connected Crazy Littles
There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny – much, much too skinny. You can’t Pilates to that.
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Actresses Lot More Much Skinny
You don’t have to wear expensive clothes to look good.
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Clothes Expensive Clothes Looks
Everyone needs a theme song! It should make you feel like a million dollars.
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Dollars Needs Song

I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.

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