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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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Think
Thinking
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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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I have tons of jewelry. I like to wear a lot of it
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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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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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I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you
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I think it's hard to be taken seriously as a poet, period.
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Because the role-model pressure becomes so insane, the personal and private takes a backseat to whatever it takes to maintain that fame and to maintain that lifestyle, and before you know it you're not a human being anymore.
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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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I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality
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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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Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends.
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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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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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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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I tried not to make God this big deal in Joan's life. She treats God like a friend: she's nice to him some days, and other days mean, and then cries when she needs help.
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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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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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