In making a record there are so fewer people involved – at least in our case. There were no more than three or four people in the studio at once. So I really feel like I can stand by everything on the record and say this is something that I personally endorse.
ZOOEY DESCHANELI’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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I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.
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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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In making a movie, you’re part of a big machine. Even in a small movie there are still so many people involved in the process, and it costs so much money to make.
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I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
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Nothing could be as hard as middle school.
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There’s nothing like having a great friends when you see them, you get that joy – that you can’t really compare it with anything else.
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For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
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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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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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Oh my God, there are so many songs I wish I had written. ‘Waters of March,’ I wish I had written ‘My Baby Just Cares for Me,’ I wish I had written ‘This Will Be Our Year,’ I mean, there’s millions of them. ‘Wouldn’t It Be Nice?’
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My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.
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My sister and I do to what we love to do and do what we want to do, so that sort of started us off having a sense of ‘Do this because you love it’ not ‘Do this because you want to be famous.’
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Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.
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I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.
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It’s nice that there are movies and songs about romance – it’s what motivates us as human beings. I’m all for being brainwashed by rom-coms.
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