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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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Amber Tamblyn
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: May 14
Actress
Film Actor
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Television Actor
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Santa Monica
California
Amber Rose Tamblyn
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