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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.

Zooey Deschanel

I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I’m an old-fashioned gal.
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Clothes Comedy Vintage
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
The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job.
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Jobs Party Red
I’m a romantic, but I’m not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me.
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Romantic Sense Thinking
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 think making a movie or a record, the best things happen by accident – and those end up being the magic. Every time I’ve followed my gut it’s been better than when I’ve tried to do what I was supposed to do.
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Every Magic Records Thinking Time
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
It can make you a little crazy when you are too connected to a product.
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Connected Crazy Littles
I don’t think there are that many awesome roles out there, whether we’re talking about movies or TV.
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Talking Television Thinking
I’ve been watching a lot of Joni Mitchell YouTube clips and I can’t believe her transformation from this folk singer in Canada.
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Believe Canada Singers
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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Character Fun People Sarcastic Time
In a lot of movies, you’ll see people on crazy dates, and you’re like, ‘No one would ever do that!’
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Crazy Movies People
I think there’s a certain space people have decided I occupy – the funny-sidekick thing.
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People Space Thinking
I like to make colored xeroxes of things. I clip out pictures of Liza Minelli and her husband from magazines and I fax them to people anonymously.
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Fax Husband People
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
I like being feminine. I think it’s good to be feminine. We don’t need to look like men or dress like men or talk like men to be powerful. We can be powerful in our own way, our own feminine way.
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Feminine Good Men Powerful Way

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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