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With acting, I get to escape into this character and embody it. With music it's like, Hey guys, this is my diary, here's all my feelings.

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Taryn Manning
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: November 6
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Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.
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I play, in real life, Kim, who is actually Marshall Mathers ex-wife as of now. She lies and says she is pregnant because she really wants to keep him and he figures her out.
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My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew
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I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.
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I grew up in a mobile home, but it wasn't like white trash - it was a beautiful mobile home park, I had a loving mother, there were kids everywhere, there was a playground in the center, I just grew up in poverty.
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I feel the craziest people are sometimes the most intelligent.
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My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.
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My dad died when I was 14. It was very sudden, traumatic, and confusing. I always felt I could have gone down a bad road at that point, but I made a choice to be a winner.
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Acting, I love it and I feel that I'm good at it, but the thing that makes me feel most alive is when I'm playing guitar and singing.
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I won't even take jobs where you get paid to sit with a group of friends and party. That's never been my vibe.
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I like to contribute. Even in my bands, I can't really just be the singer.
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I grew up in a very musical household. There was music and dance. My great-grandma was a famous tap dancer in the '40s, my mom was a dancer, she met my dad on the road when he was on tour in the '60s. Music is my heart and soul, it's my love.
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I'm very, very, very, very spiritual. I grew up in an organized religion, I went to Sunday school as a kid. I'm very grateful that there was religion. I think it instills a good moral compass.
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Everybody thinks because of my character that I'm this wild girl and I am, I'm an actor, and I have that in me - but I'm actually very calm and mellow.
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Pride is the community coming together and showing that love is real.
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It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it's cool.
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My whole thing is I like to hang around winners, I like winning spirits, I have zero tolerance for jealousy.
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That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself
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I went through the process of auditioning like every other struggling actress in this town.
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