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" We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies. "

Zooey Deschanel

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

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" 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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" Nothing's better than a picnic. "

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" 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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" Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that. "

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

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

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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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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" I started out doing musicals. "

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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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" 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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" 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 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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" I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys. "

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