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Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.

Pam Grier

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Pam Grier
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 26
Actor
Actress
Aikidoka
Film Actor
Karateka
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Pamela Suzette Grier
Freedoms
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Women

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At the beginning, my ambition was never to break down doors. It was just to earn tuition for myself and work in an industry where women hadn't been allowed or invited. That's all I wanted to do, not thinking that I would make waves, change minds, excite people, incite people, turn on people, repulse people.
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When you come from an environment that's military, and they don't stress that topic of aesthetics or beauty pageants and makeup, there are a lot of things you just don't have that city girls have. Or the country girl who goes to movies and dreams of going to Hollywood as an actress.
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The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
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The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.
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Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.
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I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.
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I felt beauty was a magnet for abuse, and I had suffered greatly for it.
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I'm a big child at heart. I think it's important to stay that way and not lose the wonder of life.
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Women were victims. Their husbands could beat them up when they wanted to. They couldn't work. They could be maimed and killed by their husbands.
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I really hate to see abusive behavior being passed on from generation to generation to generation, when we have access to health and counseling.
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It's the best honor when someone wants to use as their professional title the name of a character that you portrayed.
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I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.
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Out of necessity comes genius.
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I'm in film school, so I really have to sock away my money for school, tuition, and so on, and I really don't have time.
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Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don't know their names, they don't care about you, you don't care about them.
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Struggle and survival, losing and winning, doesn't matter. It's entering the race that counts. You enter, you can win, you can lose .... but it's all about entering the race.
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You can get hurt at any time.
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If you're stupid and you're arrogant, you're going to get hurt.
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Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.
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Sometimes I'm a little Republican, sometimes I'm a little Democrat.
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