Zooey Deschanel Quotes
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
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There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
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All men begin their learning with Homer.
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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
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It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.
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Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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We are very luck to be women, so even if we're wearing trousers, I always wear them with some lace underwear or a very feminine bra - I like that.
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All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.
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Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
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When I was starting out, William Goldman took me under his wing, and he's still the person I show pages to.
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Everything worth doing starts with being scared.
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I sang the first green leaf upon the bough, the tiny kindling flame of emerald fire, the stir amid the roots of reeds, and how the sap will flush the briar
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And I have a really great agent and I know it's almost an oxymoron to say you have a smart agent. But she is and she has a beautiful aesthetic and she has guided me.
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I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.
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I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.
