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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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The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.
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Out of necessity comes genius.
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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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Sometimes I'm a little Republican, sometimes I'm a little Democrat.
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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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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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Coming from the '50s, things were very violent.
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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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I like to do all kinds of films.
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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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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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My family was very, very receptive to all all races, religions.
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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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Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.
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I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.
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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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The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved 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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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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I felt beauty was a magnet for abuse, and I had suffered greatly for it.
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