I’ve turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It’s an absolute no-go.
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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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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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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Most performers take themselves too seriously. They forget there is a difference between the characters they play on the screen or stage and themselves, but the public doesn’t forget there is a difference. They see how silly it is if you try to be the same person all the time.
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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 would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.
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I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making 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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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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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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I don’t like people who hide things.
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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 never do what anyone else is doing. I could walk away from music and become a farmer or do some crochet. The worst thing in life for me is to do something I’m not happy doing.
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This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you’re rocking
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Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.
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I don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
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