My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.
GRACE JONESI never do what anyone else is doing. I could walk away from music and become a farmer or do some crochet. The worst thing in life for me is to do something I’m not happy doing.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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 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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Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.
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I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.
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I like working until the morning, so I can see the day and then I like to go to sleep and then get up before sunset. But I love the energy of the morning.
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I didn’t think I had a voice at all, and I still think of myself as an interpreter of songs more than a singer. I thought it was too deep; people thought I was a man. I had a very strong Jamaican accent, too; the accent really messed me up for auditions.
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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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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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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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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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When you become such a strong personality in music, it’s hard for people to accept you as a different character.
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This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you’re rocking
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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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Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
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Most performers take themselves too seriously. They forget there is a difference between the characters they play on the screen or stage and themselves, but the public doesn’t forget there is a difference. They see how silly it is if you try to be the same person all the time.
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