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" I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally. "

Zooey Deschanel

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" I like acting with no lines because all of a sudden you're able to express things without always worrying about the text. It's great to have a great text, but there's a lot of stuff you can't say in words, and I think there's something really nice about good physical moments. "

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

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" I have been a harmony enthusiast since I was a child, singing in choir and with friends growing up. I always put a ton of harmonies on my demos. "

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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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" 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 feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that's amazing when people can do that, but I think there's room for the tone singers. And there aren't a lot of them. "

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

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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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" You go to something like the Golden Globes, and it's the most glamorous place you could ever be, but then you go home and you're still like, 'Urgh, this dress is too tight, I wanna take off these shoes and put on my pyjamas.' At the end of the night all the glamour goes away and you're just a human. "

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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 wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.' "

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" One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth. "

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" Nothing could be as hard as middle school. "

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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 love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those. "

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" Everyone needs a theme song! It should make you feel like a million dollars. "

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