I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face – or so I was told.
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 don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
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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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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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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 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 like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.
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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’ve lived long enough to feel the sway of corporations both legal and illegal. Corporations give you drugs and they prescribe and prescribe them and they can be worse for you. Whereas you have illegal drugs and that is all about moderation. You have to know your body.
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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 have just as much woman in me as I have man. It’s just a matter of channeling the energy into which way you use it.
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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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If people think I’m angry, I don’t want to burst anybody’s bubble. I like sometimes for people to be afraid of me. But it’s not really anger; it’s discipline.
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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 love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
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I don’t like people who hide things.
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