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I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry

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Amber Tamblyn
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: May 14
Actress
Film Actor
Film Director
Poet
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Writer
Santa Monica
California
Amber Rose Tamblyn
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Our show is less about a girl who is doing miracles and more about the domino effect of this girl's life, and how everyone else is affected. Our show seems to be a questioning show as opposed to an action sort of fairy tale.
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If you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don't have
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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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I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person's God is wrong, I could never say that someone is wrong because they don't believe in God
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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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The poetry when I was a kid felt like something that I could control, and whether it failed or not, whether it was good or not, was totally on me and I could accept that. It was entirely mine.
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But I didn't even see God in the show as being very spiritual, I see him or her, it, as being something that is just relevant and very important in her life.
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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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IF YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING THAT TERRIFIES YOU, MOST LIKELY YOU'RE DOING THE RIGHT THING.
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I have tons of jewelry. I like to wear a lot of it
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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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People in real life cuss God out when they're angry. That's all real.
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People who have seen me read usually come up afterwards and invite me to be a part of something.
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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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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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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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Feminism? The word itself means exactly the same thing to me as the word God does - it's a spirituality that is deeply personal, deeply subjective, and deeply no one else's business. You can identify the word however you want, it's just the non-exploration of it that is unacceptable to me.
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My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.
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I have never reached certain levels of fame, like Lindsay Lohan did, or even Brittany Murphy. My career has always been this sort of even-keeled, steady existence. I was also raised by poets, and I've been doing poetry as long as I've been acting.
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A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it
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