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You can’t expect your children to be perfect.

Grace Jones

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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Dress Make Up Modeling Myself
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
It doesn’t surprise me that people can’t see beyond my image. It’s amazing, but I can understand it. That’s what image is for. But it’s never a problem for me. It’s only a problem for them. I don’t really care. I do what I want regardless.
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Beyond Image Myself People Problem Surprise Understand
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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Appearance Education Myself School
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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Earlier Father Image Myself
To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
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Honesty Life Load Myself People Portray
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
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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Difference Forget Performance Person Serious Time Yourself
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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Known Live Myself Week
I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn’t have had a child.
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Children Myself Positive Thinking
I’ve turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It’s an absolute no-go.
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Absolute Myself Reality
I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
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Accident Myself Singer 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 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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Channeling Man Way Woman Yourself
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.
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Crazy Passing Planning Replacement Version
I hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
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Hate Prescription Yourself

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