I don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
GRACE JONESI don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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I’m not a rock star, I’m a soft person.
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We’re not perfect; we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.
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I don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
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I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
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I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.
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When I perform on stage I become those male bullies, those dominators from my childhood. That’s probably why it’s so scary, because they scared me.
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Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
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Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.
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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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I am an actress first, a singer second.
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I’m not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn’t like what they were saying. Just lash out. ‘Bam – shut up! Hahahah!’ I was terrible.
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Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn’t that fiery thing you might think. It was very British, very proper. Hymns. No dancing. Very quiet. Very fundamental.
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I like dressing like a guy. I love it. When I was modeling I used to do pictures where I would dress up like my little brother. No makeup and I looked like a boy.
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I’ve lived long enough to feel the sway of corporations both legal and illegal. Corporations give you drugs and they prescribe and prescribe them and they can be worse for you. Whereas you have illegal drugs and that is all about moderation. You have to know your body.
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