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I don’t know how to explain how, probably to my detriment, unselfpromoting I am. I used to have a cabaret act and I didn’t even like to tell me people about that. I really hate selling myself.

Zooey Deschanel

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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Needed Particularly Way Come
That people equate being girlie with being nonthreatening … I mean, I can’t think of a more blatant example of playing into exactly the thing that we’re trying to fight against. I
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Fighting Mean Thinking
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
We are all made of air There’s stars in my eyes and there’s sun in my hair And I’m runnin’ away, it makes me feel better
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Better Eye Feel Stars
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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Believe Grandparents Years
There’s something about guitars, they’re just so big, you know what I mean? You’re just like, ‘Ugh!’ It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming.
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Mean Opposites Ukulele
Well, my piano’s really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the ’60s that’s blond, wood, and black, and I also have one from the ’20s from Chicago – not a well-known brand or anything.
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Beautiful Piano Two
I feel like I can’t fully understand what’s happening now until I really understand what’s happened before. But you do get sort of bogged down a little bit when you’re trying to study so many years’ worth of music. It can be a little bit overwhelming.
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Littles Trying Years
I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards – Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.
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Hart Jazz Thinking
I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
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Long Mistake Thinking
Classic Christmas cookies are really time-consuming. Instead, make a bar you can bake in a pan and just cut up, like a brownie or a blondie or a shortbread, which still has that Christmas vibe.
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Bars Cookies Cutting
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
I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.
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Late Other Sometimes Things
My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.
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Babysitting Motherly Stuff
Growing up in Hollywood meant there were a lot of film stars’ kids at my school – but no conspicuous wealth. It wasn’t cool to show off that you had money.
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Grow Up School Stars
If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be ‘Calm down!’
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Advice Giving Self

I don’t know how to explain how, probably to my detriment, unselfpromoting I am. I used to have a cabaret act and I didn’t even like to tell me people about that. I really hate selling myself.

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I don’t know how to explain how, probably to my detriment, unselfpromoting I am. I used to have a cabaret act and I didn’t even like to tell me people about that. I really hate selling myself.

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