Zooey Deschanel Quotes
If 'New Girl' had been a movie, I don't know whether I would have been given the opportunity to do it.
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One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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I've been super impressed with what BuzzFeed has done on Facebook with inspiring list posts and on Twitter with political scoops, but YouTube is a giant social platform that has its own quirks and oddities and will require some new approaches.
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If I have to go to New York or something, I'll bring my books and read and do homework. It's not really a big deal.
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As a little girl, I thought I'd like to get married on the beach. But I'm not the quintessential girl who had these sort of fantasies about that stuff.
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I like when a girl knows what she looks like and dresses to accentuate those features.
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I kind of just want to look like a cool French girl in the Sixties most of the time. Or TLC.
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By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really makes people feel good and I know it certainly made me feel good.
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In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.
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I'm the type of person who likes to enjoy everything that I do, take advantage of every opportunity in life.
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The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.
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In every movie I do have a dialogue.
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In the 20th century alone, there have been 1,600 books about the circus. My adding one more would be superfluous unless I do something totally new and different.
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Every other year, I was the new boy. I found that the only way to survive was to embrace it, make a little fortress on the outside and to pretend to blend in but not to invest too much because you'll be somewhere else next year.
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I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.
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It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.
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Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.
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I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.
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I would say Will came at a time in my life where he saw beauty in me that I didn't see in myself at the time. And, you know, he saw a diamond in the rough and kind of, picked me up and blew off all the dust and said, 'I'm telling you, I'm going to make you shine, girl.'
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People want pretty much the same things: They wanted to be happy. Most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future, while most older people believed they lay in the past.
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I can't help but tell people of the greatest story ever told - God's love and our eternal life.
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I have no problem with someone who disagrees with my life. That's your right to feel that way.
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People in England talk about stupid Hollywood idiots, but the industry attracts some of the cleverest people in the world.
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If 'New Girl' had been a movie, I don't know whether I would have been given the opportunity to do it.
