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I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.

Grace Jones

My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.
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Athletics Brother Myself
Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.
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Cure Forget Health Problem Sex Yourself
This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you’re rocking
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Depression Rock Yourself
Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
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Fantasy Modeling People Reality
You can’t expect your children to be perfect.
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Children Perfection Yourself
I don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
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Alone Born Collaborate Stage Yourself
I thought I’d take style to its limit, My philosophy is a belief in magic, good luck , self-confidence, and pride.
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Limitation Myself Pride Style Thinking
When I was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all sense of reality – so after I quit modelling, I took all the mirrors out of my house.
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Home Life Mirror Modeling Quit
If people think I’m angry, I don’t want to burst anybody’s bubble. I like sometimes for people to be afraid of me. But it’s not really anger; it’s discipline.
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Angry Burst Discipline People Thinking Trouble
I have just as much woman in me as I have man. It’s just a matter of channeling the energy into which way you use it.
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Channeling Man Way Woman Yourself
Survival is my primary instinct…it’s out of my control. It’s stronger than me. It’s an outside force, a voice that says ‘do this for your life or it will devour you.’
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Devour Instinct Life Primary Survive Yourself
I don’t like people who hide things.
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Hide Lying People
I am an actress first, a singer second.
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Actress Myself Singing
It doesn’t surprise me that people can’t see beyond my image. It’s amazing, but I can understand it. That’s what image is for. But it’s never a problem for me. It’s only a problem for them. I don’t really care. I do what I want regardless.
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Beyond Image Myself People Problem Surprise Understand
Rock n’ roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.
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Caught Cycle Quite Yourself
I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn’t have had a child.
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Children Myself Positive Thinking

I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.

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