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I felt beauty was a magnet for abuse, and I had suffered greatly for it.
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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Beauty
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Magnet
Greatly
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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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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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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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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I'm just going to try to do the best work at whatever I'm going to be, and I don't think I'm going to be an actress.
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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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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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The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
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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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Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing more freedoms won.
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Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.
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The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.
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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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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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If you're stupid and you're arrogant, you're going to get hurt.
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You never know how people are going to respond.
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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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