I came from a very strict background, and didn’t hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.
GRACE JONESI can look at a fur and tell if it’s good or not.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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When I started modelling, I’d raise my arms and it was all muscle and all the other models had nothing. Really, everybody thought I was a man. I don’t have to do much to have muscles. It’s just genetic.
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It’s ridiculous for a woman to say that she’s not attracted to other women. That’s completely false.
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I believe in having certain releases, certain outlets. One has to indulge. If you don’t indulge, you don’t live -might as well be dead. I believe in indulging as a user and not as an abuser.
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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 don’t know what I’m going to be doing in two years or even in two weeks. I have to live for today.
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I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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You can’t expect your children to be perfect.
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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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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 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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I don’t like people who hide things.
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I like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.
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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’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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Whatever one is creating, one has to stick to one’s guns and just do it. That is all. Put your foot down and do not let your work be compromised.
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