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Out of necessity comes genius.

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
Necessity
Genius
Comes

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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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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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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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Sometimes I'm a little Republican, sometimes I'm a little Democrat.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.
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Sex, action, special effects, and violence sell.
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But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.
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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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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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Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.
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My family was very, very receptive to all all races, religions.
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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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And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
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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 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 not a total feminist, but I believe in rights for females.
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The African-American community is not monolithic. It's liberal and conservative.
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