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I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.
Pam Grier
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Pam Grier
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 26
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Karateka
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Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Pamela Suzette Grier
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I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.
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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 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 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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My mother really wanted me to be in possibly a beauty pageant, not only for if I could win, but it helped improve my self-image because of trauma in my childhood and other issues.
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I tell actresses, If you're too tall, if you're too fat, you're not going to work. I don't care how talented you are. It's a business, and sex sells.
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Out of necessity comes genius.
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You can get hurt at any time.
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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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I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.
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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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If you're stupid and you're arrogant, you're going to get hurt.
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The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.
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My family was very, very receptive to all all races, religions.
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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'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 not a total feminist, but I believe in rights for females.
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That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin It's by my character.
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Coming from the '50s, things were very violent.
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