I hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
GRACE JONESI don’t know what I’m going to be doing in two years or even in two weeks. I have to live for today.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I came from a very strict background, and didn’t hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.
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I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
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I’m too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
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It’s ridiculous for a woman to say that she’s not attracted to other women. That’s completely false.
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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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My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.
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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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Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.
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Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn’t that fiery thing you might think. It was very British, very proper. Hymns. No dancing. Very quiet. Very fundamental.
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I believe in having certain releases, certain outlets. One has to indulge. If you don’t indulge, you don’t live -might as well be dead. I believe in indulging as a user and not as an abuser.
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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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