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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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Amber Tamblyn
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: May 14
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Santa Monica
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Amber Rose Tamblyn
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I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry
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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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As someone who was born and raised in Los Angeles, I was really interested in the idea of people who move here to get into the business, and some of them do become famous and then oftentimes they fall out of that fame in very terrible ways.
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My advice is to make acting your second career choice
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People in real life cuss God out when they're angry. That's all real.
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This will be the fourth time I've seen this film. I'm very proud of it and I think it's a great movie for women of any age. And almost every single man I've talked to has admitted to crying.
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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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People who have seen me read usually come up afterwards and invite me to be a part of something.
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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 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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Just because you grow up in the public eye doesn't mean that you're immune to the same sort of issues and feelings that any other woman would go through.
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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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Aubrey obviously plays Karen's, Sarah Michelle Gellar's, younger sister. And, um, she's sort of always been the underdog in the family and somebody who is not as ambitious or driven as her sister, as Karen's character, so she's sort of always felt like she's had to follow in her sister's footsteps.
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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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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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I think it's hard to be taken seriously as a poet, period.
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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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If it comes back, I think that Friday night is not a good night to be on.
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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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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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