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I haven't had a lot of celebrities around me growing up.

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Amber Tamblyn
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: May 14
Actress
Film Actor
Film Director
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Television Actor
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Santa Monica
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I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry
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I think we, especially in American culture, are so afraid to talk about death. And I'm not talking about literal death. I'm talking about shedding skin. I'm talking about rebirth, ultimately, and how we continue to change as human beings and continue to grow. There's that great Henry Miller quote, All growth is a leap in the dark.
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IF YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING THAT TERRIFIES YOU, MOST LIKELY YOU'RE DOING THE RIGHT THING.
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I think I relate to all the characters in one way or another. I'm a chameleon like that
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After I saw my first poem published, I became interested in the immortalization of words and the fact that you could put something out there that you felt and that meant something to you, and that it could be interpreted by many different people to mean many different things.
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If it comes back, I think that Friday night is not a good night to be on.
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Honestly, I am not trying to discourage anyone from becoming an actress, but if you want to become one be prepared to face everything that comes - along with it
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A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next
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When people ask me what I do for a living, I always say, I get rejected for a living. And that's true.
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A lot of people think I'm cynical when I talk about acting. The truth of the matter is, I just don't want someone to get some lame advice that will send them in the wrong direction
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And a lot of times in slam poetry I feel like people are so worried about the performance that the words might not be as strong.
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I think it's hard to be taken seriously as a poet, period.
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My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it.
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I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.
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I have tons of jewelry. I like to wear a lot of it
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Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.
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For most women, whether you're an actress or whatever you do, there is this pressure in society and within the world to look a certain way, dress a certain way, act a certain way, say certain things, and be this idea as opposed to being a person.
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My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.
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And one of my other friends could not believe in God if he came down and tapped her on the shoulder. She's a biologist - a student at UCLA - and I don't judge her either, because I really believe that God is a personal opinion, and only that
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I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach
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