Pam Grier Quotes
We have to have films about action and violence and special effects. That's the sad part, but you know what? It's not me doing it.
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I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
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I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
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My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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Betty Shabazz was the wife of a man who challenged a government that was historically unjust. She was harassed and placed under surveillance by the Nation of Islam (NOI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
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Bitcoin is one of the most viral concepts I've ever encountered.
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Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
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I do love my wine. I'd opt to drink my calories rather than eat them every time, so I cut out the breads, potatoes, pastas, cheeses and desserts in an effort to get my healthy angel and unhealthy demon to compromise.
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It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
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I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time.
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We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.
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Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don't ask for it. You just have to live with it.
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
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'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.
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In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country.
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Gilles Duceppe avoids making campaign promises altogether so he can emphasize that his Bloc Quebecois has only one objective: to prevent Harper from forming a majority government.
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One important measurement issue concerns the fat tails problem that I mentioned earlier. VAR is concerned with extreme outcomes. If the tails of the probability distributions we are using are too thin, our VAR measures are likely to be too low.
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You're allowed to bore your friends and family, but to bore your audience is unforgivable.
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I get a lot of demos sent my way, and I listen to them, and sometimes they just have something very special.
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Reading is good, action is better.
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We have to have films about action and violence and special effects. That's the sad part, but you know what? It's not me doing it.
