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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. "
Zooey Deschanel
Never
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Always
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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 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 just sort of follow my bliss, so to speak, and then I see where that takes me. "
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" Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again. "
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Shadow
" 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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" 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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" Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys. "
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" One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth. "
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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'm a very positive person. I get excited easily, and I like to jump around. "
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" There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor. "
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You
Talk
She
" 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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Need
Simple
" I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians. "
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Real
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" I think the best comedic actors don't play it for comedy, they play it for reality. Then you find it funny because it's real. Playing the genre is the worst thing you can do - it's embarrassing. "
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Best
Reality
Funny
" I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar. "
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Play
Awesome
Guitar
" It's cool cause my sister is older than me and we went to the same high school, so by the time I got to high school, I got the lowdown on all the teachers and everything. "
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School
High School
Cool
" Nothing could be as hard as middle school. "
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School
Hard
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" Growing up in Hollywood meant there were a lot of film stars' kids at my school - but no conspicuous wealth. It wasn't cool to show off that you had money. "
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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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Me
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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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People
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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 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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" 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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" Humor is a part of spirituality. "
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" Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier. "
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Feel
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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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" If people just want to be famous, that's just not enough to get you up at 4 in the morning to go to work. You have to love what you're doing. "
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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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" 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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