Zooey Deschanel Quotes

My goal as an actor is always to be as truthful as possible, and to find the truth in the material I am representing. So I think that it’s the same with performing music. But in a way, performing your own music, it’s easier to find the truth in it, because it’s coming from yourself. There’s no translation needed.

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• I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Modeling

• The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • School
  • High
  • Culture

• My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.

  

  G. Hannelius
  • Good
  • Great
  • She

• When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Movie

• Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Good
  • Think
  • Me

• Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Money
  • Fighting
  • Measure

• Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Important
  • Real
  • Me

• To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Violence
  • Daughter
  • Situation

• We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.

  

  Barry Diller
  • People
  • Long
  • Tax

• I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Eye
  • End
  • Short

• The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Democracy
  • Problems
  • Land

• I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Running

• I always say, dare to struggle, dare to grin.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Always
  • Struggle
  • Dare

• Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.

  

  Sabine Lisicki
  • Me
  • Joy
  • Tennis

• Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Bad
  • Today
  • Science

• And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work.

  

  Karen Morley
  • Work
  • Women
  • Equal Pay

• One of the first coaches I worked with on the national team told me that I was too skinny, too puny, and had no natural acceleration. He said I'd be better off looking for another facet of sport to follow. That was a really, really bad moment. For a long time, I felt as if my dad was the only one who had faith in me.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Time
  • Long
  • Bad

• Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • World
  • Country
  • Talent

• Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering, This is Primal Virtue.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Creating
  • Credit
  • Primal Virtue

• Ryan Reynolds and I can be doing a scene facing the camera and somehow our back and forth and our rhythm, we know when to stop and when to volley, when to make the sound. It's like music.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Sound
  • Scene
  • Cameras

• When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of spring.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • World
  • Nature
  • Feeling

• I play sad bastard music. For the money.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Music
  • Money
  • Sad

• I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Truth
  • Evil

• My goal as an actor is always to be as truthful as possible, and to find the truth in the material I am representing. So I think that it’s the same with performing music. But in a way, performing your own music, it’s easier to find the truth in it, because it’s coming from yourself. There’s no translation needed.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Music
  • Truth