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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

Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
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Fantasy Modeling People Reality
I came from a very strict background, and didn’t hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.
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Growth Myself Strict
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
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
I’ve turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It’s an absolute no-go.
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Absolute Myself Reality
Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.
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Emotional Myself Robot Sing
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 can look at a fur and tell if it’s good or not.
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Animal Goodness Yourself
I don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
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Myself Talent Thinking
I am an actress first, a singer second.
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Actress Myself Singing
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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Mom Musician Myself Sing Voice
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
I hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
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Hate Prescription Yourself
I love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
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Myself Relationship Woman
When I perform on stage I become those male bullies, those dominators from my childhood. That’s probably why it’s so scary, because they scared me.
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Childhood Myself Performance Scare Stage Trauma
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

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