Zooey Deschanel Quotes

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Zooey Deschanel

Profession : Actress

Birth : January 17, 1980

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 like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.

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Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.

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I'm a romantic, but I'm not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me. Whatever happens to me - you could quantify it as good or bad - I romanticize it. I think along the lines of 'When that thing happened, it made me who I am.' That kind of thing. It's a different way of being romantic.

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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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I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.

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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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Humor is a part of spirituality.

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I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she'd seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There's a part of me that still believes it.

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I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.

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I find sadness and strife to be so much more interesting with an upbeat melody.

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If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!'

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I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys.

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I hate camping, but I love summer camp.

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You don't have to wear expensive clothes to look good.

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There's something about guitars, they're just so big, you know what I mean? You're just like, 'Ugh!' It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming.

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It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human beings. I'm all for being brainwashed by rom-coms.

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If I'm going to be 'too' anything, 'too cute' is fine. I love puppies. So what? Who hates puppies?

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My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself.

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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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