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When you become such a strong personality in music, it’s hard for people to accept you as a different character.

Grace Jones

When you become such a strong personality in music, it’s hard for people to accept you as a different character.
GRACE JONES

Character Different Hard Personality Strong Yourself
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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Appearance Education Myself School
I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face – or so I was told.
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Appearance Face Myself Skin
I go feminine, I go masculine. I am both, actually. I think the male side is a bit stronger in me, and I have to tone it down sometimes. I’m not like a normal woman, that’s for sure.
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Feminine Myself Thinking Woman
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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Clothes Face Myself Painting Parental
It doesn’t surprise me that people can’t see beyond my image. It’s amazing, but I can understand it. That’s what image is for. But it’s never a problem for me. It’s only a problem for them. I don’t really care. I do what I want regardless.
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Beyond Image Myself People Problem Surprise Understand
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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Break Enough Modeling Rule Start
I 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.
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Flow Follow Journey Known Leadership Myself
You can’t expect your children to be perfect.
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Children Perfection Yourself
I don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
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Hate Myself Serious
Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there’s always one brave enough to stay.
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Brave Carriage Empty Enough Stay
I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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Design Myself Start
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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Abuse Believe Death Indulge Myself Release
I like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.
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Day Interview Lose Myself Voice Work
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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Known Live Myself Week
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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Farmer Happiness Job Life Myself Passion

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