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.
GRACE JONESI 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.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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I’m not a rock star, I’m a soft person.
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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 am an actress first, a singer second.
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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 don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
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I can look at a fur and tell if it’s good or not.
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There will always be a replacement coming along very soon – a newer version, a crazier version, a louder version. So if you haven’t got a long-term plan, then you are merely a passing phase, the latest trend, yesterday’s event.
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My husband used to shout at my mother, ‘What is wrong with your daughter? I’m married to a man.’
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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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Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there’s always one brave enough to stay.
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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’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 wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
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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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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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