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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.

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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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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When you are an actor, you bring a tool in your craft but you are not that person.
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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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As I get older, it's a time to enjoy life.
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I was able to be distant by portraying another person, another character, if you will, and I found myself not stuttering and not having anxiety attacks when I was portraying another soul, another being, and I found comfort in that. I think many actors do, playing someone other than themselves.
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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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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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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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Coming from the '50s, things were very violent. We were still being lynched. If I drove down through the South with my mother, I might not make it through one state without being bullied or harassed. I feel like unless you've been black for a week, you don't know.
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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 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 grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.
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Sometimes I'm a little Republican, sometimes I'm a little Democrat.
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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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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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Out of necessity comes genius.
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If you're stupid and you're arrogant, you're going to get hurt.
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Coming from the '50s, things were very violent.
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You never know how people are going to respond.
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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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