I don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
GRACE JONESEveryone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.
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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 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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I love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
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When you become such a strong personality in music, it’s hard for people to accept you as a different character.
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I don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
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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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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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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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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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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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I go feminine, I go masculine. I am both, actually. I think the male side is a bit stronger in me, and I have to tone it down sometimes. I’m not like a normal woman, that’s for sure.
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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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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 working until the morning, so I can see the day and then I like to go to sleep and then get up before sunset. But I love the energy of the morning.
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