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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?' "

Zooey Deschanel

Be Nice

Nice

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Singing

Doing

" 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. "

" I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible. "

" The first album I bought with my own money was 'A Hard Day's Night.' "

" I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways. "

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

" Romantic comedies are usually about when love works. "

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

" 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. "

" I started out doing musicals. "

" There are so many cute vintage dresses made out of synthetics from the '60s and '70s - but they're so itchy and hot. It's not worth it! "

" I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music. "

" True love that lasts forever... yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married for 70 years. I come from a long line of true loves. "

" If 'New Girl' had been a movie, I don't know whether I would have been given the opportunity to do it. "

" I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that. "

" I don't think there are that many awesome roles out there, whether we're talking about movies or TV. "

Zooey Deschanel

Out

Talking

" 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. "

" I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying. "

" For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working. "

Zooey Deschanel

Writing

Down

" There's a vegan and gluten-free bakery called BabyCakes that I love. They've got shops in New York and Los Angeles. Their stuff is amazing. "

" 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. "

Zooey Deschanel

Child

Singing

" 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. "

" It's interesting, because as a musician, I don't feel like I need to be on the top of the pop charts. "

" I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing. "

" Humor is a part of spirituality. "

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" If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!' "

" 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. "

" My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself. "

Zooey Deschanel

Biggest

Myself