Zooey Deschanel Quotes
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I don't know why femininity should be associated with weakness. Women should be free to express who they are without thinking, 'I need to act like a man, or I need to tone it down to be successful.' That's a very good way to keep women down.
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I listened to a lot of Joni Mitchell in high school. She was sort of an inspiration to me. I think she's a great lyricist, and she makes interesting choices.
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Why do I always want to sock it to you hard? Let you know what love is like when I’m keeping all my cards up on the shelf Where you can’t see them Why do I always want to keep it to myself?
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I went to Northwestern because I had gone to a really nontraditional high school. I was like, 'It'd be cool to have a traditional college experience.' Then I was like, 'Oh, but none of these people understand what's cool about me. My specialness is not appreciated in this place.'
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If people just want to be famous, that's just not enough to get you up at 4 in the morning to go to work. You have to love what you're doing.
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Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women.
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I sort of consider myself a comedic actress, not a comedienne. I think it's different. You know, I'm not a stand-up or anything, but playing into comedic situations is sort of where, I think, my strength lies.
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For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
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Classic Christmas cookies are really time-consuming. Instead, make a bar you can bake in a pan and just cut up, like a brownie or a blondie or a shortbread, which still has that Christmas vibe.
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I was never no, never no, never enough, But I can try, I can try to toughen up.
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Nothing's better than a picnic.
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I just sort of follow my bliss, so to speak, and then I see where that takes me.
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If you're eight and you live in Los Angeles and everybody has toys and you go to a country that has a Marxist dictatorship and there are no toy stores and nobody speaks English and it's blazing hot every day and they only have fish, which you don't like, then you tend not to appreciate the cultural lessons you're learning.
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I've personally never wanted to be 'the babe', and refuse to let vanity get in the way of my acting because I don't see my job as being a beautiful person.
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I don't want to go to another roller-coaster ride of a movie. If I want that, I'll go to Magic Mountain. I'm really interested in the young directors that are doing different things in cinema. I think the movies people will hold onto are the Rushmores and the Being John Malkoviches. Those are the kind of films I want to do; that's what I'm passionate about.
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He was different at first But then he won't understand Because he's never gonna know me If he doesn't want to just shake my hand
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And the world's like a science And I'm like a secret And I saw you lingering still, still I saw you lingering still
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There's thieves among us Painting the wallsAll kinds of lies, and liesI never told it all
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I don't wanna' wonder whether you love me I don't wanna' wonder whether you care
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Anyone who knows me knows that I am really into hair. I'm a real girly girl and love doing my hair and experimenting with different styles.
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Sweet darlin’, come hold me, Just a little bit longer now
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Don't look back all you'll ever get is the dust from the steps before I don't have to see you every day, but I just want to know youre there
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I don't think I'm very much like anyone else, really. I'm sure there are aspects of other actors that I share, but I don't see anybody else and go, 'Damn, they stole my thing.' I'm me, and I like that there are people who have an appreciation for that.
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You never tried facing the sting Walking all in circles, take it all in stride Faces are not what they seem, I always dream lost in the tide