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'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.

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Zooey Deschanel
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: January 17
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You do not need to look or be anorexic to be successful in Hollywood. The range of what's acceptable is a lot larger than what people believe.
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My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.'
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I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.
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I can't go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me.
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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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My biggest complaint with tights is that they do not accommodate skinny-ankled people like myself.
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Everyone has the heartbreak that shapes them in a way that they could never go back to the innocence that they had before.
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I will wear tights even if it's 100 degrees outside. Tights are my safety blanket.
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If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.
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I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I'm the outsider who's on the inside.
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Not that there is anything wrong with confessional songwriting, there are plenty of people that do that I admire. I think it is great it just isn't how I do things.
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I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those.
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I wasn't really the most charming person, socially - it took me a long time to develop my people skills - but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.
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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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There's nothing like having a great friends when you see them, you get that joy - that you can't really compare it with anything else.
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The average person tells a few white lies.
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When I was 13, I wasn't the coolest kid in my class, and that inner dork is a wonderful thing to have.
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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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I work almost completely year-round, since I was 18 or 19. It's nine months a year, and then you're out of town, (there are) crazy hours and all of the things that go with filmmaking, which is a pretty all-consuming business, although I'm very blessed to be a part of it.
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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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