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I don’t like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, ‘Blah blah blah movies.’ I find it incredibly boring.

Zooey Deschanel

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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Grow Up School Stars
I feel like making music because – and this has much to do with the way I was able to make this record – there’s more of myself in it.
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Able Records Way
I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that’s amazing when people can do that, but I think there’s room for the tone singers. And there aren’t a lot of them.
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Gymnastics People Thinking
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
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
I have a music career as well, so I was going to either be an actress or a musician. Then, I did both. But, I was always going to do something creative.
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Careers Creative Musician
But I also feel like it’s the right of the people hearing them to have their own interpretations of what these songs mean. Sometimes people will see things that I don’t see.
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Interactions People Sometimes
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
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
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
I will wear tights even if it’s 100 degrees outside. Tights are my safety blanket.
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Degrees Safety Tights
Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.
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Comedy Love Works
There’s a vegan and gluten-free bakery called BabyCakes that I love. They’ve got shops in New York and Los Angeles. Their stuff is amazing.
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Country Gluten Stuff
Everyone needs a theme song! It should make you feel like a million dollars.
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Dollars Needs Song
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
I’d be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means… Yeah, authentic and creative.
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Creative Mean People

I don’t like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, ‘Blah blah blah movies.’ I find it incredibly boring.

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I don’t like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, ‘Blah blah blah movies.’ I find it incredibly boring.

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