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If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be ‘Calm down!’

Zooey Deschanel

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 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
Every show is unique; some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that’s just the way they do things. It’s like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it’s due.
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Everything School Second Unique Writing
My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.
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Babysitting Motherly Stuff
My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself.
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People Skinny Tights
I don’t have control over what’s on screen, and that’s terrifying.
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Control Screens Terrifying
I think I’d say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.
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Reflection Specific Thinking
Yeah, well, we were looking for something sort of anonymous. It suggests what it is, but I like that it’s modest.
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Ideas Kind Stars
You don’t have to wear expensive clothes to look good.
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Clothes Expensive Clothes Looks
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 would watch ‘Wizard of Oz,’ like every day, when I was two. I had a hard time understanding that I couldn’t go into the film, because it felt so real to me.
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Hard Real Times Two
I have trouble actually describing myself because I’m always suspicious of people who start describing themselves. I’m like, “OK, why are you trying to tell me what you are?”
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People Trouble Trying
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
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
I’ve always had a really great time being in movies and writing music when I get home. The more creative I am, the more it feeds into other creative aspects of my life.
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Creative Home Writing
I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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Collaboration Solitary Television

If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be ‘Calm down!’

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