Zooey Deschanel Quotes
No, I've been singing forever. I started out doing musicals. I think that was part of the reason why they gave me the part, because I sang.
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Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.
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I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.
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I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
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What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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When I was younger, it was like, 'Yay, lesbians love me!' I didn't know there was a responsibility that came with it.
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90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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You will never see me dancing around the trees, chasing a heroine; I will never do films, no matter what the budget, for the heck of it.
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The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
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I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.
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It sometimes takes 6 months or more after you've written and recorded it before you can start to enjoy the experience of singing the song.
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The minute your child is born, your life is changed forever. I think I've become so aware of how important balance is in life.
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As an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so you don't have to learn all that dialogue. With digital, they can just go on forever and it's a nightmare. So, I like film - nice short takes.
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It's such a risk to write a novel that it's easy to become conservative - you're spending what would be, for me, a couple of years of my life on a single idea. Which is maybe one of the reasons I write stories - if it doesn't work, you've only lost a month.
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The most immediate influences upon AD&D were probably de Camp & Pratt, R. E. Howard, Fritz Leiber, Jack Vance, H. P. Lovecraft, and A. Merritt.
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No, I've been singing forever. I started out doing musicals. I think that was part of the reason why they gave me the part, because I sang.
