Zooey Deschanel Quotes

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.

Zooey Deschanel

• Selling
• Cabaret
• Detriment
• Unselfpromoting

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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.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Selling
  • Cabaret
  • Detriment