I don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
GRACE JONESEven if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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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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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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 don’t like people who hide things.
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You can’t expect your children to be perfect.
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To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
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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 like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn’t have had a child.
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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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Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.
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I thought I’d take style to its limit, My philosophy is a belief in magic, good luck , self-confidence, and pride.
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You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.
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I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.
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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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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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