I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn’t have had a child.
GRACE JONESThis is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you’re rocking
More Grace Jones Quotes
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I always thought that feminine, softer side was just too vulnerable to put out there, because then it’s like you’re opening up a door for everybody to come in, and you don’t know who’s going to come in that door.
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I’m too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
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I don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
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You can’t expect your children to be perfect.
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In the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it required a certain amount of clear thinking, a lot of hard work and good make-up to be accepted as a freak.
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Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.
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I think I’m doing a service to black women by portraying myself as a sex machine. I mean, what’s wrong with being a sex machine, darling? Sex is large, sex is life, sex is as large as life, so it appeals to anyone that’s living, or rather it should.
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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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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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Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.
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My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.
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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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Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.
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My husband used to shout at my mother, ‘What is wrong with your daughter? I’m married to a man.’
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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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