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I'm Not Doing It To Pander To People. I Just Always Knew What I Liked Versus What I Don't Like. I Never Liked Things With Too Many Zippers Or Spikes And Stuff. That Weirds Me Out. I Like Things That Are Pretty. And I Think It's Great To Be Pretty. I Like Being Feminine. I Think It's Good To Be Feminine. We Don't Need To Look Like Men Or Dress Like Men Or Talk Like Men To Be Powerful. We Can Be Powerful In Our Own Way, Our Own Feminine Way.

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I'm Not Doing It To Pander To People. I Just Always Knew What I Liked Versus What I Don't Like. I Never Liked Things With Too Many Zippers Or Spikes And Stuff. That Weirds Me Out. I Like Things That Are Pretty. And I Think It's Great To Be Pretty. I Like Being Feminine. I Think It's Good To Be Feminine. We Don't Need To Look Like Men Or Dress Like Men Or Talk Like Men To Be Powerful. We Can Be Powerful In Our Own Way, Our Own Feminine Way.

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I Like Singing As Much As I Like Acting, And All Through High School I Thought I Might Be A Broadway Singer.

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.

True Love That Lasts Forever... Yes, I Do Believe In It. My Parents Have Been Married For 40 Years And My Grandparents Were Married For 70 Years. I Come From A Long Line Of True Loves.

I Want To Be A Freaking Feminist And Wear A Freaking Peter Pan Collar. So Freaking What?

Most Of My Music Theory Knowledge Is Based On Piano. But I Write On Guitar A Lot, Too. I'm Not A Great Guitar Player By Any Means. I'm Not A Great Instrumentalist. I Play Piano On Stage. I Don't Play Guitar On Stage, But I Use It To Write Quite A Lot.

After Staring At Origami Directions Long Enough, You Sort Of Become One With Them And Start Understanding Them From The Inside.

I'm Always Doing Something Musically - When I'm Working Or When I'm Off.

I Did Not Have A Date To The Prom. I Went To My Junior Prom Alone, And My Senior Prom, I Was Doing My First Movie. I Went In A Limousine With, Like, A Bunch Of People To My Junior Prom. It Was A Group Date.

No, I've Been Singing Forever. I Started Out Doing Musicals. I Think That Was Part Of The Reason Why They Gave Me The Part, Because I Sang.

Certain Aspects Of My Personality Are Always Going To Come Out On-screen. I Guess That's Just Me - If They Say I'm Quirky, I'm Quirky. It's Better Than Being Boring.

Making Movies, You're Like An Independent Contractor - You Come In, You Have A Specific Job, And A Lot Of What You Do Is Completely Manipulated, Which Is Good And Bad.

I Love To Cook. But I Have Some Food Allergies, So I Have To Contend With Those.

Sites Like Funny Or Die And College Humor Are Great, But I'd Say It's Appealing To 80% Men And 20% Women.

Love Is Individual To Each Person And I Don’t Think You Can Define It Before Experiencing It Because It Isn’t Going To Be The Same For Everybody.

Proving People Wrong Is Probably My Favorite Thing To Do.

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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.

In Making A Record There Are So Fewer People Involved - At Least In Our Case. There Were No More Than Three Or Four People In The Studio At Once. So I Really Feel Like I Can Stand By Everything On The Record And Say This Is Something That I Personally Endorse.

Nothing's Better Than A Picnic.

I Don't Like Business Talkers, You Know, People Who Are Constantly Like, 'blah Blah Blah Movies.' I Find It Incredibly Boring.

A Lot Of People Work Out To Be Skinny. That's So Boring, And It Seems Like A Depressing Goal For A Modern Woman.

Humor Is A Part Of Spirituality.

I Did Go Through This Period Where Girls Would Be Mean And I Had A Lot Of Guy Friends. But I've Found As An Adult The Importance Of Having Female And Male Friends.

I Think The Best Comedies Came Out During The Depression. Personally.

To Be A Gluten-free Vegan Is, Like, The Most Difficult Thing You Can Possibly Be.

For Me, Writing Is 75 Percent Procrastinating And 25 Percent Actually Sitting Down And Working.

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