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.
ZOOEY DESCHANELWell, my piano’s really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the ’60s that’s blond, wood, and black, and I also have one from the ’20s from Chicago – not a well-known brand or anything.
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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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I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.
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I’ve been watching a lot of Joni Mitchell YouTube clips and I can’t believe her transformation from this folk singer in Canada.
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I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I’m the same person.
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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.
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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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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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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 am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.
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I’m not cynical about love at all. I’m very practical. I think love takes up a lot of time.
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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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One of the things I love about doing things that are creative is that I feel like it’s my right as an artist not to be affected by the reactions of those people that are going to hear my songs.
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In a lot of movies, you’ll see people on crazy dates, and you’re like, ‘No one would ever do that!’
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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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It can make you a little crazy when you are too connected to a product.
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