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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.

Grace Jones

I don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
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Alone Born Collaborate Stage Yourself
I’m too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.
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Myself Save Simplicity Sin
My husband used to shout at my mother, ‘What is wrong with your daughter? I’m married to a man.’
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Husband Marriage Myself Sexuality
Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.
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Drugs Legal Prescription
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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Body Enough Feeling Live Sway Worse Yourself
My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.
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Earlier Father Image Myself
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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Devour Instinct Life Primary Survive Yourself
To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
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Honesty Life Load Myself People Portray
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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Mistake Myself People Perfection
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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Angry Burst Discipline People Thinking Trouble
My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.
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Athletics Brother Myself
It’s ridiculous for a woman to say that she’s not attracted to other women. That’s completely false.
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Attraction Fake Woman
I am an actress first, a singer second.
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Actress Myself Singing
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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Myself Snow Stay Time
You can’t expect your children to be perfect.
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Children Perfection Yourself
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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Feminine Myself Opening Thinking Vulnerable

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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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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