Zooey Deschanel quotes - page 4

Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips music of what makes it exciting. (Zooey Deschanel)
I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys.
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I can't even remember the first time I started singing.
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You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.
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It's a lot harder to do an ensemble because your energy is going in so many different places, and you have to cover everybody. You have to sort of split your attention.
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Certain aspects of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that's just me - if they say I'm quirky, I'm quirky. It's better than being boring.
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I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.
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I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer.
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I'm always trying to do stuff I haven't done before or challenge myself so I'm not resting on my laurels all of the time because if I just found my little niche and never left it, I'd be pretty boring, I think.
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I wasn't really the most charming person, socially - it took me a long time to develop my people skills - but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.
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I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin. (Zooey Deschanel)
I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
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My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.
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I have Pro Tools on my computer, and I make CDs all the time.
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I think making a movie or a record, the best things happen by accident - and those end up being the magic. Every time I've followed my gut it's been better than when I've tried to do what I was supposed to do.
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'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels. (Zooey Deschanel)
I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.
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Nothing could be as hard as middle school.
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True love that lasts forever... yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married for 70 years. I come from a long line of true loves.
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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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