I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face – or so I was told.
GRACE JONESYou can’t expect your children to be perfect.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don’t know where it’s going to lead me, but I follow it.
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Rock n’ roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.
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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 hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
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I can look at a fur and tell if it’s good or not.
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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 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.
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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’m not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn’t like what they were saying. Just lash out. ‘Bam – shut up! Hahahah!’ I was terrible.
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I’ve lived long enough to feel the sway of corporations both legal and illegal. Corporations give you drugs and they prescribe and prescribe them and they can be worse for you. Whereas you have illegal drugs and that is all about moderation. You have to know your body.
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Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.
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I don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
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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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Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.
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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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