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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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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Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
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One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.
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My father's drinking was sometimes a problem. And a great deal went unspoken. He was not particularly acute or articulate about the emotions. But he was very affectionate towards me.
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.
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Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
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Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.
