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.’
GRACE JONESI believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it’s up to them to find that quality and let it live.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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You can’t expect your children to be perfect.
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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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You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.
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I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it’s up to them to find that quality and let it live.
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I never do what anyone else is doing. I could walk away from music and become a farmer or do some crochet. The worst thing in life for me is to do something I’m not happy doing.
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I am an actress first, a singer second.
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When you start in that [model] business the rules are imposed upon you, but when you stay in the business long enough the rules could be broken.
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I’m still shocked every time I see snow. The first bit of snow each year… I stay up and I watch it. And then I go out and pick it up and eat it and move around in it.
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There will always be a replacement coming along very soon – a newer version, a crazier version, a louder version. So if you haven’t got a long-term plan, then you are merely a passing phase, the latest trend, yesterday’s event.
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Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.
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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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I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn’t have had a child.
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I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face – or so I was told.
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When you become such a strong personality in music, it’s hard for people to accept you as a different character.
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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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