Amber Tamblyn Quotes
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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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From the pop side, people like Usher, and when they first came out, I listened to guys like K-Ci and JoJo; that '90s R&B thing really caught my ear.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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I've always felt I had the ability to be a good, elite defender in this league on the wing. I just need to lock in. I feel if I pick that up, I can be a very good all-around player.
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I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.
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I go on a good many adventure-type trips. Whenever I go on one, it's always potentially going to be the setting for one of my books. I pay more attention to certain aspects than some other people might. Sometimes I use them, sometimes I don't. Most of the books I write are based on experiences I've had to some extent.
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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The Kardashians can be famous for being famous. What do they do? I can't figure it out.
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Thankfully, I don't think you can be creative without being free.
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If it's done really well, you don't want big portions because you think, 'That was so fulfilling. I'm not stuffed. I feel great.'
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With the advent of cell phones, especially with the very small microphone that attach to the cell phone itself, it's getting harder and harder I find, to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone.
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Obviously, fans are the beginning and end for any artist. The minute your fans embrace you and accept you, you begin this ride of being in music and having a career doing something you love. You get to go be a kid and live out your dreams by performing music for fans who come out to your shows.
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My advice is to make acting your second career choice.
