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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.

Zooey Deschanel

I love telling stories. I think of myself as a storyteller, and I don’t feel bound by being just a singer or an actress. First, I’m a storyteller, and history is stories – the most compelling stories.
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Interesting Knowing Thinking
Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips music of what makes it exciting.
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Forever People Uniform
That is so personal, and it’s my pet peeve when people press you on it. And it’s always women who get asked! Is anybody saying that to George Clooney?
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People Pet Presses
We all know guys who’ve had their hearts broken in real life; we just don’t usually see it in the movies.
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Broken Heart Real
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
There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny – much, much too skinny. You can’t Pilates to that.
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Actresses Lot More Much Skinny
I think my own personal style always ends up seeping into characters that I play. I’ve always had a very distinct idea of fashion for myself, and what a character should wear.
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Character Fashion Thinking
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.
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Badass Funny Motivational Women
There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters – ‘He does this, and she’s a really interesting character because she does this.’ I’m not like that at all. I’m not an actory actor.
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Character Doe Interesting
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
I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
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Camping Hate Summer
I’ve always been really picky about roles and make a point of reminding myself that it’s not about the money – because, obviously, there’s a lot of money to be made in this business if you’re willing to do anything.
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Made Picky Reminding Roles
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 appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.
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Appreciate Restraint Songwriters
I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I’ve found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends.
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Female Girl Guy Mean
I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I’m an old-fashioned gal.
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Clothes Comedy Vintage

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