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" I think penguins are cute. "
Zooey Deschanel
Think
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Cute
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" I love having a lot of content. I prefer to have constant stimulation. "
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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 started out doing musicals. "
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" To be a gluten-free vegan is, like, the most difficult thing you can possibly be. "
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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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" You don't have to wear expensive clothes to look good. "
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" I don't know how to explain how, probably to my detriment, unselfpromoting I am. I used to have a cabaret act and I didn't even like to tell me people about that. I really hate selling myself. "
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" I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal. "
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" My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself. "
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" It's a lot harder to do an ensemble because your energy is going in so many different places, and you have to cover everybody. You have to sort of split your attention. "
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" I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that. "
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" I will wear tights even if it's 100 degrees outside. Tights are my safety blanket. "
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" Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure. "
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" I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys. "
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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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" I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it. "
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" I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore. "
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" Certain aspects of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that's just me - if they say I'm quirky, I'm quirky. It's better than being boring. "
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" I just sort of follow my bliss, so to speak, and then I see where that takes me. "
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" I can't even remember the first time I started singing. "
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" When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our job as actors - so many people are working so hard, and even the littlest movie takes a lot of work. "
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" The Internet's like one big bathroom wall with a lot of people who anonymously can say really mean things. It's fine, I believe in freedom of speech and I think people should think what they want, but I don't care to hear it. "
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" I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well. "
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" I like having a schedule. I tend to be the type of person that thrives on something being regular. "
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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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" If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!' "
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