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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.

Zooey Deschanel

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Zooey Deschanel
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: January 17
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