Pam Grier Quotes
I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.
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I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity. As opposed to many of its contemporary counterparts, Dune'is not so much focused on the styling of that activity, as on the supporting of it.
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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. I hope I have done some of that. I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. It is why I leave with sadness but also with pride.
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My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.
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I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable with it.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
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Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
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The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.
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Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.
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Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.
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I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
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I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.
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When I'm surfing, I'm sure not thinking about the paparazzi. I guess if they start getting on floaties and coming out there in the water, then I might be a little upset.
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the main necessity on both sides of a revolution is kindness, which makes possible the most surprising things. To treat one's neighbor as oneself is the fundamental maxim for revolution.
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When you are a novelist, you are used to making a narrative do what you want.
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When I was younger, I was a bit of a feisty fighter type of guy. That's something my father told me as I was becoming a man: 'You don't go picking fights, but you don't run from any of them.' And I was more afraid of my father than anybody else I had to fight.
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I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.
