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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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Amber Tamblyn
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: May 14
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I haven't had a lot of celebrities around me growing up.
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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 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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