To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
GRACE JONESI wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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I believe in having certain releases, certain outlets. One has to indulge. If you don’t indulge, you don’t live -might as well be dead. I believe in indulging as a user and not as an abuser.
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Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.
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I came from a very strict background, and didn’t hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.
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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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Whatever; bling always has something to hide.
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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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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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Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
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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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I don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
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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 hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
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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 love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
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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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