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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.

Grace Jones

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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Impatience Myself People Terrible
I don’t like people who hide things.
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Hide Lying People
I’m not a rock star, I’m a soft person.
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Myself Soft
That’s what they do in Argentina. Have a little wine and talk. Then have some coffee and talk. Then, go back to the wine.
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Coffee Talk Wine
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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Acceptance Believe Complaint Decision
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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Appeal Myself Service Thinking Wrong
Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.
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Emotional Myself Robot Sing
I’m too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
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Myself Save Simplicity Sin
You can’t expect your children to be perfect.
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Children Perfection Yourself
I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
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Different Oneself Time
Rock n’ roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.
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Caught Cycle Quite Yourself
I don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
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Myself Talent Thinking
Women and men grow up with both sexes. Our mothers and fathers mean a lot to us, so it’s just a question of finding a balance between their influences. I’ve found mine. And it tends to be more on the male side. I mean male side the way we understand it in the West.
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Balance Father Finding Growth Man Understand Woman
I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
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Accident Myself Singer Thinking
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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Childhood Myself Performance Scare Stage Trauma
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

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