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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.

Zooey Deschanel

I have a music career as well, so I was going to either be an actress or a musician. Then, I did both. But, I was always going to do something creative.
ZOOEY DESCHANEL

Careers Creative Musician
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 have had brown hair and bangs since I was 2. One year I dyed it blonde, which felt so weird.
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Bangs Hair Years
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.
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Nice Video Way
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
Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.
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Looks Shape Suits You
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
I don’t have control over what’s on screen, and that’s terrifying.
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Control Screens Terrifying
I’ll have these internal moments where I’m empathizing with someone else or feeling something myself, but I’m like, “How can I see the best in this situation?” Sometimes those are the moments where you can have the most clarity.
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Clarity Feelings Sometimes
For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
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Down Sitting Working Writing
If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be ‘Calm down!’
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Advice Giving Self
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
The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, ‘Oh my God!’
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Clubs Jobs Singing
I think good actors tend to be really funny.
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Actors Funny Good Thinking
My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself.
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People Skinny Tights
I’m just being myself. There is not an ounce of me that believes any of that crap that they say. We can’t be feminine and be feminists and be successful? I want to be a f-king feminist and wear a f-king Peter Pan collar. So f-king what?
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Believe Kings Successful

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