I love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
GRACE JONESYou can’t expect your children to be perfect.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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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I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face – or so I was told.
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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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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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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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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’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 am an actress first, a singer second.
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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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I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
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I’ve turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It’s an absolute no-go.
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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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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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That’s what they do in Argentina. Have a little wine and talk. Then have some coffee and talk. Then, go back to the wine.
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