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.
GRACE JONESI don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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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I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn’t have had a child.
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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 came from a very strict background, and didn’t hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.
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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 only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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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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I’m too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
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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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It was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict: our hair couldn’t be permed or straightened. So I just cut it all off.
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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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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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I don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
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Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there’s always one brave enough to stay.
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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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