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" I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal. "

Zooey Deschanel

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" Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier. "

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" I've never pursued a role. I always hear stories about actors going after parts and I'm, like, 'How do they do that?' It seems so weird. It seems like a total myth or something. "

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" I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer. "

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" We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies. "

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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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" I'm a romantic, but I'm not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me. Whatever happens to me - you could quantify it as good or bad - I romanticize it. I think along the lines of 'When that thing happened, it made me who I am.' That kind of thing. It's a different way of being romantic. "

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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 tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you. "

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" If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!' "

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" I went to Northwestern because I had gone to a really nontraditional high school. I was like, 'It'd be cool to have a traditional college experience.' Then I was like, 'Oh, but none of these people understand what's cool about me. My specialness is not appreciated in this place.' "

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" If 'New Girl' had been a movie, I don't know whether I would have been given the opportunity to do it. "

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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'm always doing something musically - when I'm working or when I'm off. "

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" 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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" 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 can't go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me. "

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" If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real. "

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" I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch. "

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" I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she'd seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There's a part of me that still believes it. "

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" 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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" I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect. "

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" The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else. "

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" Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips music of what makes it exciting. "

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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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