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 JONESWhatever; bling always has something to hide.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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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I’m not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn’t like what they were saying. Just lash out. ‘Bam – shut up! Hahahah!’ I was terrible.
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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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I hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
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I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
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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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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 don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
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Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.
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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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When I was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all sense of reality – so after I quit modelling, I took all the mirrors out of my house.
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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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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 like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn’t have had a child.
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