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Q: When did you realize you wanted to be an actress?
A: In high school my grades were bad - I was daydreaming, pulling pranks. I got into a heavy punk scene. I had a nose ring and my hair was purple and black and blue. I dressed in black. I was very confused, and a loner. I was in a relationship with a man 10 years older than I was when I was 14. He was in a punk band, and I used to give him cans of food from our house and buy him Big Gulps and cigarettes. I was terrible. In 11th grade I decided to audition for a community theater play and I got the part, and then I felt extremely happy, like I had found my place. My grades went up and I was voted most improved student.
Q: What happened to the older guy?
A: I heard a while ago he was studying to become an entertainment lawyer, which scares the hell out of me because he was a pathological liar [laughs].

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Her family, she said, is ecstatic about the series. "My mother is completely wrapped up in the whole thing." Anderson, who spent 10 childhood years in England when her father moved the family there to study production at the London Film School, didn't plan on a television career.
She took part in community theater as a teenager in Grand Rapids, Michigan, then studied with the National Theater of Great Britain at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. Anderson earned a bachelor's degree at the Goodman Theater School at Chicago's DePaul University and went on to win a Theater World Award for her off-Broadway performance in the Alan Ayckborne play "Absent Friends."

WARRING WITH WORDS
when the times come, I consider your attitude,
thrown away common sense.
Catch a fallen comrade only when
you're sure they won't turn on you.
When the day breaks I measure you, to see what I got.
Then after that I may speak for you,
but I'll be talking, only, talking.
Topical arguments can ruin with fashion
when confronted with violence.
I will not fight any of your fights, don't count on me.
No more, pushing pulling pushing.
No more, pushing pulling pushing, testing me.
Playing wit's end with a potential volatile friend,
the kind that ends you up in jail.
Remarks that spark a fire in zero's, I am responsible.
After that If I can look at you, and not keep resentment.
With open eyes I'll speak for you,
but I'll be talking, only talking.
-Len Wallace

PERFECT
No one can know my elation
No one can know my situation
No one knows of my relations
Perfect.
-Len Wallace