Zooey Deschanel Quotes
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Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
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I wanted to get that Division I scholarship and play ball and go to school for free, and I was always about getting to that next step... I was always ahead of myself in some way, shape or form, and trying to envision how to get further along and closer to fulfilling that dream of being free and having creative agency, so to speak.
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I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do good work and have that work be respected and acknowledged.
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Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.
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The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.
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Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
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To go back means defeat.
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Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.
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I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.
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My mother is a strong woman. Her strength comes from being tested by life's unpredictability. It comes from soldiering on for her children, even when she might rather have given up. I know it hasn't always come easily, but I also know it's her greatest gift.
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I think I feel automatically at home in Italy.
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Freedom from menial work should be a rallying cry, not a cudgel to be used against the Left. How much liberty is there in having to do something you hate in order to survive?
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I certainly don't mean to suggest that all investigative journalism prior to 9/11 in the US was praiseworthy. But there were more examples to which one could point, and there were at last some activist photographers who understood that getting information into the public sphere in spite of military censorship was a right and obligation within democracy. That strain in war journalism did nearly vanish during that time.
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I just feel honored to play Wonder Woman in some incarnation. She's got such history, and she's, like, the first female superhero.
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I don't wanna' wonder whether you love me I don't wanna' wonder whether you care
