Amber Tamblyn Quotes

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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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  Friends, Business, Jealous

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

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  Ifs, Doing The Right Thing, Right Thing

  Source: www.believermag.com

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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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  Mean, People, Different

  "Amber Tamblyn: 'I get rejected for a living'". Interview with Rachel Matlow, www.salon.com. August 30, 2015.

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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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  People, Rejected, Ask Me

  Interview with Rachel Matlow, www.believermag.com. 2015.

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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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  Ideas, Dresses, Looks

  Interview with Rachel Matlow, www.believermag.com. 2015.

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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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  Dark, Thinking, Talking

  "Amber Tamblyn: 'I get rejected for a living'". Interview with Rachel Matlow, www.salon.com. August 30, 2015.

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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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  Girl, Miracle, Action

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• We hung out a lot together. We went and saw films together. It was really actually quite easy. I think we were all very subconsciously connected in knowing that we needed to make it important, and therefore it just became important and it worked. Everybody had a lot of respect for each other. I think respect is the most important thing you can have.

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  Thinking, Knowing, Important

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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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  Mom, Artist, Guitar

  Source: www.glamour.com

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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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  Father, Age, Generations

  "Amber Tamblyn and Blake Lively talk Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. May 25, 2005.

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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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  Book, Vegetarian, Fast Food Nation

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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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  Girl, Believe, Office

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• My advice is to make acting your second career choice

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  Careers, Choices, Advice

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• And one of my other friends could not believe in God if he came down and tapped her on the shoulder. She's a biologist - a student at UCLA - and I don't judge her either, because I really believe that God is a personal opinion, and only that

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  Friends, Believe, Personal Opinions

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• I have tons of jewelry. I like to wear a lot of it

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  Jewelry

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• I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person's God is wrong, I could never say that someone is wrong because they don't believe in God

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  Believe, Religion, Persons

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• I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you

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  Education, Thinking, Play

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• A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it

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  Past, Bored, Democracy

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• Feminism? The word itself means exactly the same thing to me as the word God does - it's a spirituality that is deeply personal, deeply subjective, and deeply no one else's business. You can identify the word however you want, it's just the non-exploration of it that is unacceptable to me.

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  Mean, Feminism, Doe

  Source: www.glamour.com

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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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  Role Models, Insane, Roles

  Interview with Rachel Matlow, www.believermag.com. 2015.

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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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  Religious, Thinking, Connections

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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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  Kids, Accepting, Like Something

  Interview with Rachel Matlow, www.believermag.com. 2015.

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

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  Taken, Thinking, Poet

  Interview with Rachel Matlow, www.believermag.com. 2015.

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• Just because you grow up in the public eye doesn't mean that you're immune to the same sort of issues and feelings that any other woman would go through.

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  Growing Up, Mean, Eye

  Interview with Rachel Matlow, www.believermag.com. 2015.

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• As someone who was born and raised in Los Angeles, I was really interested in the idea of people who move here to get into the business, and some of them do become famous and then oftentimes they fall out of that fame in very terrible ways.

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  Moving, Fall, Ideas

  Interview with Rachel Matlow, www.believermag.com. Spring 2015.

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