I hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
GRACE JONESI 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.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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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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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Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
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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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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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Some songs come from my head, some from my throat, but there will always be moments when it is an injection of the soul.
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Disco was like the celebration of music through dance and my God! When you heard the music sometimes it was like, if you don’t get up and dance, you aren’t human!
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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.’
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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 wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
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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’m not a rock star, I’m a soft person.
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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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