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I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.

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
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Let's start working towards wellness, a healing in our community, a healing in relationships, so male and female can finally sit down and understand that that young boy or young girl saw behavior exhibited by their parents that was negative and abusive and they're going to pass it on.
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I will not be on this planet. I may come back in another form, and you know, I'll come back as a white man.
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I'm not a total feminist, but I believe in rights for females.
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Sometimes I'm a little Republican, sometimes I'm a little Democrat.
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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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The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.
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Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
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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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My family was very, very receptive to all all races, religions.
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My grandfather was the first feminist in my life. He taught me if a woman can do something, a man will respect her.
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You can get hurt at any time.
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I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.
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I wanted to be in film. I wanted to be a film student, possibly be a director or cinematographer, not an actor. That was my goal. I didn't believe I had the physical beauty that I'd seen projected and advertised in movies, in theater. It just wasn't for me.
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I felt beauty was a magnet for abuse, and I had suffered greatly for it.
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But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.
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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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Coming from the '50s, things were very violent.
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I'm an Air force Brat and I've lived all over the world and this country and there were people in my community who were gay - nurses, hairdressers, designers - people who just had a different way about themselves.
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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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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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