Amber Tamblyn Quotes
My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.
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Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.
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Movies are a director's medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the flak if the movie doesn't do well, and the actor walks away with most of the credit if the film does well.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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The interweb's got a weird vibe.
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When you write songs for your best friends and maybe two other people to hear, and then realize that a million other people are going to hear them, it can be a bit worrying. You get concerned about what you might reveal.
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I came to the industry with wide eyes and an open heart thinking I was going to make a few films that really meant something that I could pour myself into.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.
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Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
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I'm a good son, a good father, a good husband - I've been married to the same woman for 30 years. I'm a good friend. I finished college, I have my education, I donate money anonymously. So when people criticize the kind of characters that I play on screen, I go, 'You know, that's part of history.'
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If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.
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If you're a competitor, you want to win. That's enough to play for, simple as that.
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There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.
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I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect of yourself.
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My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.
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J.J. did not always flee from men, but he has always loved solitude. He enjoyed himself with the friends he velieved he had, but he enjoyed himself still more alone. He valued their society, but he sometimes needed to withdraw, and he would perhaps have preferred to live always alone than always with them.
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It stayed with me - the Bible has stayed with me. I've grown out of it because, obviously, you live life for yourself and have your choice to believe what you want to believe in, but I know that the Bible can be used to appreciate life.
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My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.
