I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
GRACE JONES
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I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
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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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I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face – or so I was told.
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You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.
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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 am an actress first, a singer second.
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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 can look at a fur and tell if it’s good or not.
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I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
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Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.
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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 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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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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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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Some songs come from my head, some from my throat, but there will always be moments when it is an injection of the soul.
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