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" I will wear tights even if it's 100 degrees outside. Tights are my safety blanket. "

Zooey Deschanel

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" I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint. "

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" I listened to a lot of Joni Mitchell in high school. She was sort of an inspiration to me. I think she's a great lyricist, and she makes interesting choices. "

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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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" Oh my God, there are so many songs I wish I had written. 'Waters of March,' I wish I had written 'My Baby Just Cares for Me,' I wish I had written 'This Will Be Our Year,' I mean, there's millions of them. 'Wouldn't It Be Nice?' "

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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 love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song. "

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" I have had brown hair and bangs since I was 2. One year I dyed it blonde, which felt so weird. "

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" The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job. "

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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'm a very positive person. I get excited easily, and I like to jump around. "

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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 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 think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin. "

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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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" 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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" From my perspective, probably women are won over by people who are sweet and respectful and courteous and kind and funny. I think those are the things that win women over. "

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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've personally never wanted to be 'the babe', and refuse to let vanity get in the way of my acting because I don't see my job as being a beautiful person. "

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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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" 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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" 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 like having a schedule. I tend to be the type of person that thrives on something being regular. "

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" Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California. "

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

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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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