I don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
GRACE JONESI don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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Whatever; bling always has something to hide.
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Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.
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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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I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it’s up to them to find that quality and let it live.
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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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To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
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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 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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Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
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I don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
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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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I can look at a fur and tell if it’s good or not.
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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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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!
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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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