I like dressing like a guy. I love it. When I was modeling I used to do pictures where I would dress up like my little brother. No makeup and I looked like a boy.
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More Grace Jones Quotes
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It’s ridiculous for a woman to say that she’s not attracted to other women. That’s completely false.
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I thought I’d take style to its limit, My philosophy is a belief in magic, good luck , self-confidence, and pride.
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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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You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.
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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 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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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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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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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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Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.
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When I perform on stage I become those male bullies, those dominators from my childhood. That’s probably why it’s so scary, because they scared me.
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I hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
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My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.
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Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.
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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 don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
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I always thought that feminine, softer side was just too vulnerable to put out there, because then it’s like you’re opening up a door for everybody to come in, and you don’t know who’s going to come in that door.
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Rock n’ roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.
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That’s what they do in Argentina. Have a little wine and talk. Then have some coffee and talk. Then, go back to the wine.
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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’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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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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I don’t like people who hide things.
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I never do what anyone else is doing. I could walk away from music and become a farmer or do some crochet. The worst thing in life for me is to do something I’m not happy doing.
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I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
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