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Grace Jones

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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Difference Forget Performance Person Serious Time Yourself
Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
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Fantasy Modeling People Reality
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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Appearance Education Myself School
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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Known Live Myself Week
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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Abuse Believe Death Indulge Myself Release
I came from a very strict background, and didn’t hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.
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Growth Myself Strict
Rock n’ roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.
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Caught Cycle Quite Yourself
I love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
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Myself Relationship Woman
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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Acceptance Believe Complaint Decision
I’ve turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It’s an absolute no-go.
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Absolute Myself Reality
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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Balance Father Finding Growth Man Understand Woman
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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Day Energy Morning Sleep
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
It’s ridiculous for a woman to say that she’s not attracted to other women. That’s completely false.
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Attraction Fake Woman
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
There’re lots of musicians in my family, too. My mother sings incredibly well. I’ve got to make a record with my mother’s voice on it. She sings a lyric soprano. We do the opposite. I’m a baritone. She’s a star singer in her church. She always does her solo.
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Mom Musician Myself Sing Voice

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