Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there’s always one brave enough to stay.
GRACE JONESPrescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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 didn’t think I had a voice at all, and I still think of myself as an interpreter of songs more than a singer. I thought it was too deep; people thought I was a man. I had a very strong Jamaican accent, too; the accent really messed me up for auditions.
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Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.
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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 believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it’s up to them to find that quality and let it live.
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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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To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
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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 love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
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Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.
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It was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict: our hair couldn’t be permed or straightened. So I just cut it all off.
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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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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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I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn’t have had a child.
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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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