Zooey Deschanel Quotes
I think it's better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don't corrupt each other, so to speak.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
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Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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I think the sidekick makes the number one look good.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
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I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn't, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys.
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Little boys have amazing minds.
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I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.
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I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back.
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The Olympics is this big global event, but when neighbours come up and wish you well, it feels more personal.
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I like to be a little bit of a rebel as an actor, so I am interested in the unpopular person and the lesser-understood character. It's a bold choice to try to find empathy in an unlikeable place in storytelling.
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I don't belong to any clubs, and I dislike club mentality of any kind, even feminism - although I do relate to the purpose and point of feminism. More in the work of older feminists, really, like Germaine Greer.
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Age and numbers are a concept made up by man.
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Atlas, we read in ancient song, Was so exceeding tall and strong, He bore the skies upon his back, Just as the pedler does his pack; But, as the pedler overpress'd Unloads upon a stall to rest, Or, when he can no longer stand, Desires a friend to lend a hand, So Atlas, lest the ponderous spheres Should sink, and fall about his ears, Got Hercules to bear the pile, That he might sit and rest awhile.
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I think it's better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don't corrupt each other, so to speak.
