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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.
Pam Grier
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Pam Grier
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: May 26
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Aikidoka
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Karateka
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Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Pamela Suzette Grier
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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'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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Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.
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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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You never know how people are going to respond.
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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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As I get older, it's a time to enjoy life.
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Sex, action, special effects, and violence sell.
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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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Sometimes I'm a little Republican, sometimes I'm a little Democrat.
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