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I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face – or so I was told.

Grace Jones

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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Appeal Myself Service Thinking Wrong
I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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Design Myself Start
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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Flow Follow Journey Known Leadership Myself
I can look at a fur and tell if it’s good or not.
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Animal Goodness Yourself
You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.
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Energy Man Philosophy Sexuality Yourself
I’m not a rock star, I’m a soft person.
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Myself Soft
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 don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
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Hate Myself Serious
My husband used to shout at my mother, ‘What is wrong with your daughter? I’m married to a man.’
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Husband Marriage Myself Sexuality
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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Clothes Flow Music Myself
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
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
I don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
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Myself Talent Thinking
Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.
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Drugs Legal Prescription
Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there’s always one brave enough to stay.
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Brave Carriage Empty Enough Stay
I am an actress first, a singer second.
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Actress Myself Singing

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