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Writing becomes a really good creative outlet when you're sitting there and feeling creatively frustrated or stilted, but also you then get to write parts for yourself.

Zoe Lister-Jones

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Zoe Lister-Jones
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: September 1
Actor
Actress
Director
Film Actor
Film Director
Playwright
Screenwriter
Singer
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Brooklyn
New York
Zoe G. Lister-Jones
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I was never shielded from the realities of what it meant to be an artist and that made me afraid to be an artist because I wanted to know that my life was secure.
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I come from a long line of women who like shoes to a fault.
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As artists, it's really important to take time to see what other art is happening and to know what's happening in the world.
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