Pam Grier Quotes
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I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.
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Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.
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Humans don't 'need' math-based cryptocurrencies when dealing with other humans. We walk slowly, talk slowly, and buy big things. Credit cards, cash, wires, checks - the world seems fine.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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The bottom line of Hollywood is money.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.
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There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.
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Health food makes me sick.
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And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
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To say that New York came up to its advance billing would be the baldest of understatements. Being there was like being in heaven without going to all the bother and expense of dying.
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There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
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I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.
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People always make mistakes when they fancy themselves exceptions.
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I remember when I first met Jason Reitman with the 'Whiplash' script; he quickly became a mentor figure who guided me through the process and also protected me and made sure that when it came time to actually make 'Whiplash,' I was able to make exactly the movie I wanted to make.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.