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.

Zooey Deschanel

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• Singing
• Forever
• Musicals

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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.

  

  Cab Calloway
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• Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
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• There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.

  

  D. B. Weiss
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• I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.

  

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• My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Problem
  • Right
  • Names

• 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.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Way
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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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  • Kids
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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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  • People
  • 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.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Matter
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• The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.

  

  Babe Paley
  • Me
  • Always
  • Deliberately

• 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.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Want
  • Death
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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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• 'Cheers' was great. They paired me up with Shelley Long on this tiny bar set for the final audition. That was my first really big one, and we just clicked instantly – I still think I got the part because of Shelley.

  

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• In my own work, I'd say I'm a classicist, but I look everywhere for my solutions. I don't study the toilet-living habits of my clients, although that's a popular approach. First, I think of every building in history that has been similar in purpose. Then I think of the functional program - that's a major part of the study.

  

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• Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions.

  

  Adrian Lyne
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• What we need is a political and joyous alternative to the behaviorist discourse, the Christian discourse on evil or sin, and the convergence of the two in forms of gender policing that is tyrannical and destructive.

  

  Judith Butler
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• Desire is the very essence of man.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Very

• 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.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Me
  • Reason
  • Singing