My husband used to shout at my mother, ‘What is wrong with your daughter? I’m married to a man.’
GRACE JONESI just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don’t know where it’s going to lead me, but I follow it.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.
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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 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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I can look at a fur and tell if it’s good or not.
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I don’t like people who hide things.
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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 don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
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There’re lots of musicians in my family, too. My mother sings incredibly well. I’ve got to make a record with my mother’s voice on it. She sings a lyric soprano. We do the opposite. I’m a baritone. She’s a star singer in her church. She always does her solo.
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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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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.
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I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face – or so I was told.
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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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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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This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you’re rocking
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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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