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And you go into a supermarket and every tabloid is like, 'Pregnant and Alone!' Stuck in the 1950s ideal of how a woman should live her life. This brings out the fiery feminist in me.

Zooey Deschanel

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Zooey Deschanel
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: January 17
Actor
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LA
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Zooey Claire Deschanel
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I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.
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I feel like making music because - and this has much to do with the way I was able to make this record - there's more of myself in it.
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I want to be a freaking feminist and wear a freaking Peter Pan collar. So freaking what?
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I don't thrive in a word-perfect environment.
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I'm always doing something musically - when I'm working or when I'm off.
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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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It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human beings. I'm all for being brainwashed by rom-coms.
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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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You can't know if someone's really your best friend. I think the measure of that is you could not see each other for six months and then when you see each other you laugh the same way you did when you were a little kid.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I just sort of follow my bliss, so to speak, and then I see where that takes 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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