Pam Grier Quotes
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The first thing my writing ever earned me wasn't an advance on a book; it wasn't a fee for an article or anything like that. It was, in fact, a residency at Hedgebrook Farm.
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I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.
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But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.
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I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I was drawn to things I thought were either sexy or aggressive - or both.
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Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.
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I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.
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To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, or they weren't then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that's like a really great thing to do, to be, but then it wasn't.
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
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In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.
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I like the effect drink has on me.
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I'm a rational person, and I'm not a method actor. You don't need to call me by my character's name while I'm not shooting.
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How can we later criticise other countries outside the European Union for adopting such measures to repress opponents when we are tolerating this inside the European Union with European citizens? Like me - I'm a European citizen.
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Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
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What drives that desire to destroy Paris Hilton? What drives that desire to venerate Angelina Jolie? I do understand it, but it still baffles me. It baffles me when people treat me specially and differently, because I just want to look at them and go, 'What are you talking about? I'm just a person.'
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I've got the sort of personality that requires me to find some sort of release, and for me, it's performing.
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The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.
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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.
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I have never said that there is no need for a guru. All depends on what you call guru. He need not be in a human form.
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Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.
