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I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it’s very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn’t: ‘Oh, you’re making fun of me right now.’ And I wasn’t!

Zooey Deschanel

If I’m going to be ‘too’ anything, ‘too cute’ is fine. I love puppies. So what? Who hates puppies?
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Cute Hate Puppy
I’ve been watching a lot of Joni Mitchell YouTube clips and I can’t believe her transformation from this folk singer in Canada.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Believe Canada Singers
I would say I know nothing about the music business, in a nice sort of way. I totally forgot I was in that music video. That’s so funny.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Nice Video Way
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

Needed Particularly Way Come
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.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Badass Funny Motivational Women
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
That’s one of the most exciting things for me about listening to records: It’s a moment in time, and the less it’s messed with the more powerful it is. I wanted at least one song on the record to be just completely about the moment.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Listening Powerful Song
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?’
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Baby Nice Song
I’ve been writing music since I was about eight. I would write sporadically. I wrote a lot of music in high school. I guess the oldest song on the record (“I Thought I Saw Your Face”) is about eight years old.
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School Song Writing
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’m the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I’m really surprised if a movie I like does well.
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Ideas Picking Worst
For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
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Down Sitting Working Writing
I finally figured out how to read origami directions.
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Figured Origami Out
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.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Bad Good Independent Jobs
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.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Play Real Thinking
To be a gluten-free vegan is, like, the most difficult thing you can possibly be.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Difficult Gluten Vegan

I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it’s very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn’t: ‘Oh, you’re making fun of me right now.’ And I wasn’t!

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I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it’s very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn’t: ‘Oh, you’re making fun of me right now.’ And I wasn’t!

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