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Oh my God, there are so many songs I wish I had written. 'Waters of March,' I wish I had written 'My Baby Just Cares for Me,' I wish I had written 'This Will Be Our Year,' I mean, there's millions of them. 'Wouldn't It Be Nice?'

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Zooey Deschanel
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: January 17
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I love to play music, and this is fun, and let's record this stuff in a way that we both like. That was exciting enough, so we just recorded it. There was no business in it until the very last minute, really. It was really as much of an extension of me writing the songs in my bedroom as it could possibly be.
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I'm a big fan of the '80s fantasy genre that I grew up watching, movies like Krull and Clash of the Titans and Time Bandits and all that stuff.
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I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.
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I've always been really picky about roles and make a point of reminding myself that it's not about the money - because, obviously, there's a lot of money to be made in this business if you're willing to do anything.
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One of the privileges of doing television is the ability to evaluate my own performance and try to improve upon it.
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There's something about guitars, they're just so big, you know what I mean? You're just like, 'Ugh!' It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming.
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'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.
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I don't thrive in a word-perfect environment.
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In an ideal world no one would talk before 10am. People would just hug, because waking up is really hard.
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I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.
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I need a coffee to go with my coffee.
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I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'
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I don't think there are that many awesome roles out there, whether we're talking about movies or TV.
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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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