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I appreciate a songwriter like Morrissey with so much restraint.
Zooey Deschanel
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Zooey Deschanel
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: January 17
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Zooey Claire Deschanel
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I feel like I can't fully understand what's happening now until I really understand what's happened before. But you do get sort of bogged down a little bit when you're trying to study so many years' worth of music. It can be a little bit overwhelming.
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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.
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I get embarrassed a lot of times getting attention, but I like being onstage. Do you know what I mean? If I'm in a crowd of people and they're all looking at me, I will feel embarrassed. It's a strange dichotomy.
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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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