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.

Amber Tamblyn

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I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.

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IF YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING THAT TERRIFIES YOU, MOST LIKELY YOU'RE DOING THE RIGHT THING.

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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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When people ask me what I do for a living, I always say, "I get rejected for a living." And that's true.

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My parents are artists, so I grew up with my mom having bonfires, seven guitars, and talented musicians and artists around like Jack Hirschman.

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My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.

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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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Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.

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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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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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For most women, whether you're an actress or whatever you do, there is this pressure in society and within the world to look a certain way, dress a certain way, act a certain way, say certain things, and be this idea as opposed to being a person.

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My advice is to make acting your second career choice

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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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People in real life cuss God out when they're angry. That's all real.

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The poetry when I was a kid felt like something that I could control, and whether it failed or not, whether it was good or not, was totally on me and I could accept that. It was entirely mine.

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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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My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.

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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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I think it's hard to be taken seriously as a poet, period.

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One of my good friends is Christian, goes to church every Sunday, very religious. I'm fine with that and I will never judge her.

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