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I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that’s amazing when people can do that, but I think there’s room for the tone singers. And there aren’t a lot of them.

Zooey Deschanel

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
I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.
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Appreciate Restraint Songwriters
California is a great big nation of one They never knew what they wanted ’til it was already gone
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Bigs Country Gone People
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
The average person tells a few white lies.
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Average Lying White
I’ve never pursued a role. I always hear stories about actors going after parts and I’m, like, ‘How do they do that?’ It seems so weird. It seems like a total myth or something.
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Actors Roles Stories
Not that there is anything wrong with confessional songwriting, there are plenty of people that do that I admire. I think it is great; it just isn’t how I do things.
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Admire People Thinking
I’ve had experiences where I wasn’t allowed to change words around at all because you have to say everything, exactly as written on the page.
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Character Fun Pages
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
When I was 13, I wasn’t the coolest kid in my class, and that inner dork is a wonderful thing to have.
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Class Kids Wonderful
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
I’m a big fan of the ’80s fantasy genre that I grew up watching, movies like “Krull” and “Clash of the Titans” and “Time Bandits” and all that stuff.
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Fans Fantasy Stuff
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
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
My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.
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Babysitting Motherly Stuff
I’m not playing a comedy. I want to be playing the truth of the moment, and then have the comedy come out.
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Comedy Moment Want

I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that’s amazing when people can do that, but I think there’s room for the tone singers. And there aren’t a lot of them.

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I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that’s amazing when people can do that, but I think there’s room for the tone singers. And there aren’t a lot of them.

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