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Zooey Deschanel Inspirational Quotes (250)

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I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
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I've been watching a lot of Joni Mitchell YouTube clips and I can't believe her transformation from this folk singer in Canada.
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I'll have these internal moments where I'm empathizing with someone else or feeling something myself, but I'm like, How can I see the best in this situation? Sometimes those are the moments where you can have the most clarity.
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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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I find sadness and strife to be so much more interesting with an upbeat melody.
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I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.
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I'll write and make chords with my voice sometimes if I don't have an instrument even though it takes a million times longer.
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When I got a little bit older I wanted to play piano - that's all I wanted to do. I remember learning how to play a blues progression on the xylophone in music class and thinking This is the greatest thing I've ever learned.
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Everyone romanticizes somebody.
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I love movies and I love to watch movies and being a part of the whole film experience. Being a filmgoer is a unique experience, and it can affect you on so many levels. But being an actor in movies you often have a very narrow palette for expressing yourself.
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Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.
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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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To be a gluten-free vegan is, like, the most difficult thing you can possibly be.
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I feel like making music because - and this has much to do with the way I was able to make this record - there's more of myself in it.
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My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.
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I'm always interested in hearing how other people read and react to my songs. I hadn't thought of it in just that way.
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I also feel like it's the right of the people hearing them to have their own interpretations of what these songs mean. Sometimes people will see things that I don't see.
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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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I'm not really that interested in pandering to an audience of people that are going to judge me before they hear me. If they hear it and don't like it, that's totally fine.
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There are lots of things that everyone else likes that I hate. So I feel that audience rights are very important. I just want people to hear it and decide if they like it or don't like it as they would with anything else.
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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.
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I already have the weird experience of having a name for myself personally that's connected to someone that's in the public eye. So you have me, Zooey Deschanel, and then there's Zooey Deschanel's public persona.
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I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.
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I don't thrive in a word-perfect environment.
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