Zooey Deschanel Quotes
A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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A newspaperman said, 'You have to have a team in New York.' I replied, 'Who says you have to have a team in New York?' What came out in the papers was a headline that said, Giles Says, 'Who needs New York?' I confess that quote bothered me, and there seemed to be no way to dispose of it. It was repeated again and again.
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Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies.
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Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
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We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor.
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When I was young, I used to expect Parisians to wear little black berets, to bicycle about with strings of onions around their necks, and to brandish long sticks of bread, just like they used to do in school textbooks.
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I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
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I have used Proactiv, and I use X Out, and they are the only things that work for me.
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Treat yourself with love and respect, and you will attract people who show you love and respect.
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A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.
