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" The red-carpet thing of premieres and parties is probably my least favourite part of my job. "
Zooey Deschanel
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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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" Summer has always been my favorite season. I feel happier. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" I think penguins are cute. "
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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 am always early to work but sometimes late to other things. "
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" 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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" 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
Nice
" I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys. "
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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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Myself
Now
" I think making a movie or a record, the best things happen by accident - and those end up being the magic. Every time I've followed my gut it's been better than when I've tried to do what I was supposed to do. "
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Time
" I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing. "
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" I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I'm the outsider who's on the inside. "
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" Everyone needs a theme song! It should make you feel like a million dollars. "
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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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" 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'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice. "
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" 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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" I know a lot of people that have had fake Twitters... actors and musicians that I know. It's sort of a problem. There are all these people that sign up thinking that they're getting somebody's real thoughts when it's just some guy. "
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" 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! "
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" I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally. "
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" 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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Guitar
" The average person tells a few white lies. "
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White Lies
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Average
" 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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God
Jazz
" 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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