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I’m not playing a comedy. I want to be playing the truth of the moment, and then have the comedy come out.

Zooey Deschanel

I don’t like plain nails. I get sad.
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Beauty Nails Plain
Nothing could be as hard as middle school.
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Middle Nothing School
I think comedy’s just about being interested in comedy and what makes people laugh and experimenting.
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Laughing People Thinking
I’ve always straddled a weird line – there’s a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I’m the outsider who’s on the inside.
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Lines Outsiders Stuff
There are so many cute vintage dresses made out of synthetics from the ’60s and ’70s – but they’re so itchy and hot. It’s not worth it!
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Cute Dresses Vintage
I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.
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Appreciate Restraint Songwriters
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
For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
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Down Sitting Working Writing
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
That people equate being girlie with being nonthreatening … I mean, I can’t think of a more blatant example of playing into exactly the thing that we’re trying to fight against. I
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Fighting Mean Thinking
For those of us who try to keep remembering, Try to do our better than our best. Think of all the children in the drifts of snow. Winners never quit, but winters never rest.
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Children Thinking Winter
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
My mom told me when I get compliments to cover my ears.
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Compliment Ears Mom
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
The average person tells a few white lies.
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Average Lying White
I want to be where your heart is home I want to see you with the light in the morning There’s never been such a beautiful warning to me, to me
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Beautiful Home Morning

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