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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. "
Zooey Deschanel
Feeling
Tired
Movies
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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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" The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!' "
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" My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.' "
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" My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself. "
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" Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling. "
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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'm a very positive person. I get excited easily, and I like to jump around. "
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" Girls get competitive, as though there's only one spot in the world for everything _ but that's not true. We need to stick together and see there's more to life than pleasing men. It's important not to cut yourself off from female friendships. I think sometimes girls get scared of other girls, but you need each other. "
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" You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding. "
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You
Effort
" 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 Am
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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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Attention
" What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it. "
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Change
Growing Up
People
" Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys. "
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Lot
" 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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Myself
" A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman. "
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" Well, my piano's really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the '60s that's blond, wood, and black, and I also have one from the '20s from Chicago - not a well-known brand or anything. "
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Black
Brand
Wood
" The first album I bought with my own money was 'A Hard Day's Night.' "
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Day
Night
Own
" I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways. "
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Think
Stuck
" I will wear tights even if it's 100 degrees outside. Tights are my safety blanket. "
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Will
" 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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" My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff. "
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Sister
" If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans. "
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Fans
Trying
Want
" I love indie movies. I think that independent cinema is where it's at and where a lot of trends begin. It's where new filmmakers are breaking through. "
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Trends
Love
Cinema
" 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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" Every show is unique; some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do things. It's like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it's due. "
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People
School
" I never have time to have a dinner. I have to eat while I'm memorizing lines. The only way to maintain energy is to eat all day long. I must eat all day long. "
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Long
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" I did not have a date to the prom. I went to my junior prom alone, and my senior prom, I was doing my first movie. I went in a limousine with, like, a bunch of people to my junior prom. It was a group date. "
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" I'm always trying to do stuff I haven't done before or challenge myself so I'm not resting on my laurels all of the time because if I just found my little niche and never left it, I'd be pretty boring, I think. "
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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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