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.
GRACE JONESPrescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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 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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Survival is my primary instinct…it’s out of my control. It’s stronger than me. It’s an outside force, a voice that says ‘do this for your life or it will devour you.’
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I am an actress first, a singer second.
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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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Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.
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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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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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Disco was like the celebration of music through dance and my God! When you heard the music sometimes it was like, if you don’t get up and dance, you aren’t human!
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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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Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
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I hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
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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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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 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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