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I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.

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Zooey Deschanel
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: January 17
Actor
Actress
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Film Actor
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Television Actor
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LA
California
Zooey Claire Deschanel
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From my perspective, probably women are won over by people who are sweet and respectful and courteous and kind and funny. I think those are the things that win women over.
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In a sense, I like to think of the live performance as something different than the record, not necessarily looking to exactly recreate the record. Sometimes Matt and I just do duets folk-style. Part of the fun of seeing a live show is having it be different from the way that you hear it in your bedroom or wherever you listen to music.
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I started out doing musicals.
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I like to learn things slow, I like learning alot, I like to get it all again and in the end, You know you get what you got...
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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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I like a lot of old films, I like a lot old music, and a lot of it has to do with the fact that I like the idea of knowing what happens before, so that I can understand it.
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One of the things I love about doing things that are creative is that I feel like it's my right as an artist not to be affected by the reactions of those people that are going to hear my songs.
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The average person tells a few white lies.
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Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.
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My sister and I do to what we love to do and do what we want to do, so that sort of started us off having a sense of 'Do this because you love it' not 'Do this because you want to be famous.'
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It's interesting, because as a musician, I don't feel like I need to be on the top of the pop charts.
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The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'
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After staring at origami directions long enough, you sort of become one with them and start understanding them from the inside.
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I'm not playing a comedy. I want to be playing the truth of the moment, and then have the comedy come out.
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Nothing is more powerful than allowing yourself to truly be affected by things. Whether it’s a song, a stranger, a mountain, a tea kettle, an article, a sentence, a footstep -feel it all. Look around you. All of this is for you. Take it and have gratitude. Give it and feel love.
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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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