We’re not perfect; we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.
GRACE JONESI have just as much woman in me as I have man. It’s just a matter of channeling the energy into which way you use it.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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It’s ridiculous for a woman to say that she’s not attracted to other women. That’s completely false.
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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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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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Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there’s always one brave enough to stay.
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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 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 like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn’t have had a child.
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Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn’t that fiery thing you might think. It was very British, very proper. Hymns. No dancing. Very quiet. Very fundamental.
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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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You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.
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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 don’t like people who hide things.
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You can’t expect your children to be perfect.
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I don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
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To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
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