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If You're Eight And You Live In Los Angeles And Everybody Has Toys And You Go To A Country That Has A Marxist Dictatorship And There Are No Toy Stores And Nobody Speaks English And It's Blazing Hot Every Day And They Only Have Fish, Which You Don't Like, Then You Tend Not To Appreciate The Cultural Lessons You're Learning.

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If You're Eight And

Zooey Deschanel

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If You're Eight And You Live In Los Angeles And Everybody Has Toys And You Go To A Country That Has A Marxist Dictatorship And There Are No Toy Stores And Nobody Speaks English And It's Blazing Hot Every Day And They Only Have Fish, Which You Don't Like, Then You Tend Not To Appreciate The Cultural Lessons You're Learning.

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I Appreciate A Songwriter Like Morrissey With So Much Restraint.

I Think There's A Certain Space People Have Decided I Occupy - The Funny-sidekick Thing.

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.

Yeah, Well, We Were Looking For Something Sort Of Anonymous. It Suggests What It Is, But I Like That It's Modest. I Feel Like That's An Underrated Virtue. It's Modest And It's Kind Of Anonymous, Which I Liked, Because It Reminds Me Of My Own Ideas About Why Music Should Be Played, Which Is Not To Be A Star. That Was Never My Intention.

Yes, Exactly. I Think That Christmas Is Always Used At Any Point In The Year To Cheer Us Up, Like Each Other Up. We Would Use That To Cheer Each Other Up If We Were In A Sad Mood Or Something, We'd Just Start Talking About Christmas.

I Think Comedy's Just About Being Interested In Comedy And What Makes People Laugh And Experimenting.

I Always Choose Roles That Are, You Know, Hopefully Different From The Last Role. I Don't Wanna Do The Same Thing Over And Over Again Because That's, Well, First Of All That's No Fun.

One Of The Things I Love About Doing Things That Are Creative Is That I Feel Like It's My Right As An Artist Not To Be Affected By The Reactions Of Those People That Are Going To Hear My Songs.

California Is A Great Big Nation Of One They Never Knew What They Wanted 'til It Was Already Gone

I Always Have Loved Music, Ever Since I Was Really Little. I Just Loved To Sing. I Can't Really Explain It, Except Maybe - And This Is Going To Sound Really Stupid - When I Would Listen To A Song It Would Make Me More Excited Than Anything Else Could.

I Feel There Are Tone Singers, And There Are More Vocal Gymnastics Singers. And I Think That's Amazing When People Can Do That, But I Think There's Room For The Tone Singers. And There Aren't A Lot Of Them.

If You Can Make A Character Likable That's Not Very Nice, That's The Challenge Of The Job.

I've Been Watching A Lot Of Joni Mitchell Youtube Clips And I Can't Believe Her Transformation From This Folk Singer In Canada.

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