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"'Quirky' is like a nice way of saying weird," actress Zooey Deschanel tells the April issue of Lucky. "It's an annoying word." Well, turns out the silver screen's Queen of Quirk actually hates being called quirky. To be fair, we're pretty sure quirky doesn't mean just plain-old-weird—to us, it means weird-and-endearingly-so. If that helps. [Popeater]