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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?”

Zooey Deschanel

It’s really fun to say no sometimes. I just don’t want to discount how fun it is to say no and exercise your right to say no, and – as a girl – it’s important to know how to say no… and that no means no!
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Fun Girl Important Mean
I will wear tights even if it’s 100 degrees outside. Tights are my safety blanket.
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Degrees Safety Tights
Everyone needs a theme song! It should make you feel like a million dollars.
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Dollars Needs Song
I love having a lot of content. I prefer to have constant stimulation.
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Constant Lot Prefer Stimulation
I’m into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn’t feel true, I don’t want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that’s why I don’t always fit into the world of performing arts.
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Art Feeling Scare Thinking True
I think the best comedic actors don’t play it for comedy, they play it for reality. Then you find it funny because it’s real. Playing the genre is the worst thing you can do – it’s embarrassing.
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Play Real Thinking
I finally figured out how to read origami directions.
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Figured Origami Out
My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.
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Babysitting Motherly Stuff
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’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 think that it’s our responsibility to create a world in which girls can grow up and not have to limit their dreams or possibilities.
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Children Dream Girl
Making movies, you’re like an independent contractor – you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad.
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Bad Good Independent Jobs
I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, ‘Well you’re never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don’t even try.’ I mean, I care about being pretty, but it’s not my most valued thing.
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Girl Growing Mean Up
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’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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Believe Canada Singers
Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I’d say it’s appealing to 80% men and 20% women.
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College Men Site

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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