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I ended up doing amazing things with my life I'm well-read, educated and sophisticated - and I'm not the stereotype everyone makes me out to be.

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Taryn Manning
Age: 45
Born: 1978
Born: November 6
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I've had an interesting time adjusting to New York. I'm from California and I'm very much a California girl. I feel lucky to officially say I'm bi-coastal.
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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 feel the craziest people are sometimes the most intelligent.
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There are likable characters in prison. Sometimes the worst criminals are also some of the most charming people.
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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'm definitely the worker. My brother is the jokester.
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As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.
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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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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character
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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 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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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'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
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I write most of my stuff. When I'm rejected in music, it hurts worse than when I don't get a role, because that's someone else's vision. If they don't see me as that part, even if I believe I'm the perfect person for it, that's their vision. The music is my vision.
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The most interesting place I've gone on location was New Orleans
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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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I have played some very kind and loving character. I don't know why I'm so good at playing bad. I really don't.
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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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I like to contribute. Even in my bands, I can't really just be the singer.
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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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