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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.

Grace Jones

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.
GRACE JONES

Abuse Believe Death Indulge Myself Release
I like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.
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Day Interview Lose Myself Voice Work
I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face – or so I was told.
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Appearance Face Myself Skin
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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Clothes Face Myself Painting Parental
You can’t expect your children to be perfect.
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Children Perfection Yourself
When I was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all sense of reality – so after I quit modelling, I took all the mirrors out of my house.
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Home Life Mirror Modeling Quit
If people think I’m angry, I don’t want to burst anybody’s bubble. I like sometimes for people to be afraid of me. But it’s not really anger; it’s discipline.
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Angry Burst Discipline People Thinking Trouble
In the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it required a certain amount of clear thinking, a lot of hard work and good make-up to be accepted as a freak.
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Acceptance Freak Fun Hard Work Thinking
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
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.
GRACE JONES

Fundamental Growing Quiet Thinking Yourself
This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you’re rocking
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Depression Rock Yourself
I don’t like people who hide things.
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Hide Lying People
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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Body Enough Feeling Live Sway Worse Yourself
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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Farmer Happiness Job Life Myself Passion
I’m still shocked every time I see snow. The first bit of snow each year… I stay up and I watch it. And then I go out and pick it up and eat it and move around in it.
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Myself Snow Stay Time
Disco was like the celebration of music through dance and my God! When you heard the music sometimes it was like, if you don’t get up and dance, you aren’t human!
GRACE JONES

Celebration Dance God Human Music

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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