I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.
GRACE JONESI love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
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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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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I hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
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I don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
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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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When I started modelling, I’d raise my arms and it was all muscle and all the other models had nothing. Really, everybody thought I was a man. I don’t have to do much to have muscles. It’s just genetic.
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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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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 don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
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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 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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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’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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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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To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
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