You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.
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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I like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.
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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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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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Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.
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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 am an actress first, a singer second.
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When I started modelling, I’d raise my arms and it was all muscle and all the other models had nothing. Really, everybody thought I was a man. I don’t have to do much to have muscles. It’s just genetic.
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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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I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
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I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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Whatever one is creating, one has to stick to one’s guns and just do it. That is all. Put your foot down and do not let your work be compromised.
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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 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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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’m not a rock star, I’m a soft person.
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