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" A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman. "

Zooey Deschanel

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" 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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" You don't have to wear expensive clothes to look good. "

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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'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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" 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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" Not that there is anything wrong with confessional songwriting, there are plenty of people that do that I admire. I think it is great, it just isn't how I do things. "

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" I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that. "

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" I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians. "

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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 love having a lot of content. I prefer to have constant stimulation. "

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" I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music. "

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" I'm not going to say I'm a big girl. I'm a very small person, but I'm a healthy weight. That might be a little weird for Hollywood. "

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" I get embarrassed a lot of times getting attention, but I like being onstage. Do you know what I mean? If I'm in a crowd of people and they're all looking at me, I will feel embarrassed. It's a strange dichotomy. "

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" If you're eight and you live in Los Angeles and everybody has toys and you go to a country that has a Marxist dictatorship and there are no toy stores and nobody speaks English and it's blazing hot every day and they only have fish, which you don't like, then you tend not to appreciate the cultural lessons you're learning. "

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" I find sadness and strife to be so much more interesting with an upbeat melody. "

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" I wasn't really the most charming person, socially - it took me a long time to develop my people skills - but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing. "

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" I think there's a certain space people have decided I occupy - the funny-sidekick thing. "

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" 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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" If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job. "

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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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" It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s. "

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" I can't even remember the first time I started singing. "

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" I wish I got invited to more luaus. I really do! "

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" I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long. "

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" I think it's better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don't corrupt each other, so to speak. "

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" I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible. "

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" 'It Girl' is supposed to be something that only lasts a certain amount of time. They keep calling me an 'It Girl,' and at this point it makes me laugh, because I've done that so many times: 'You're it;' 'You're not it.' What is 'it?' "

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" I started out doing musicals. "

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" I don't think there are that many awesome roles out there, whether we're talking about movies or TV. "

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" Humor is a part of spirituality. "

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