Pam Grier Quotes

Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.

Pam Grier

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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.

  

  Dana Stabenow
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Me

• I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Me
  • Always
  • Rejection

• 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.

  

  Jack Nance
  • Real
  • Done
  • Me

• 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.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Way
  • Me
  • Writer

• There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Me
  • Kid
  • Curious

• I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Home
  • Character
  • Me

• Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Story

• I was drawn to things I thought were either sexy or aggressive - or both.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Thought
  • Sexy
  • Aggressive

• 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.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Way
  • Influence
  • Films

• I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.

  

  Zachery Ty Bryan
  • Time
  • Person
  • Just

• 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.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Day
  • Telling
  • Grade

• It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Me
  • Internet
  • Dangerous

• You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Me
  • Famous
  • Seems

• In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • You
  • Me
  • Never

• I like the effect drink has on me.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Me
  • Like
  • Drink

• 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.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Me
  • Inside
  • Citizen

• Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Art
  • Me
  • Start

• Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Me
  • Interest
  • Characters

• I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Crazy

• I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.

  

  Sammy Cahn
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Professional

• I remember we would get young, aspiring actors to come on '77 Sunset Strip' - I remember George Kennedy was one of those - and they would do a big guest star part, a lead, and they'd be paid maybe $850.

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Remember
  • Star
  • Sunset

• Everyone may have some advise for the RBI. Some may advise, 'Cut your lending rates and raise the deposit rate.' How will a bank function? We take a medium term view. The bank has an 80-year-old history. I don't want to destroy it for a few decisions.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • May
  • History
  • Decisions

• I wanted to have more time to play and reflect, but I find retirement more stressful than having a nice, steady job because I have to make decisions about where I want to be.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Time
  • Job
  • Nice

• Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Me
  • Sexy
  • Just