My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.
GRACE JONESIn the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it required a certain amount of clear thinking, a lot of hard work and good make-up to be accepted as a freak.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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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I don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
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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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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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I didn’t think I had a voice at all, and I still think of myself as an interpreter of songs more than a singer. I thought it was too deep; people thought I was a man. I had a very strong Jamaican accent, too; the accent really messed me up for auditions.
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I’m not a rock star, I’m a soft person.
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When I started modelling, I’d raise my arms and it was all muscle and all the other models had nothing. Really, everybody thought I was a man. I don’t have to do much to have muscles. It’s just genetic.
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I like working until the morning, so I can see the day and then I like to go to sleep and then get up before sunset. But I love the energy of the morning.
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I don’t collaborate. You’re born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
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I like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.
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I 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.
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Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.
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Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.
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I don’t like people who hide things.
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I think I’m doing a service to black women by portraying myself as a sex machine. I mean, what’s wrong with being a sex machine, darling? Sex is large, sex is life, sex is as large as life, so it appeals to anyone that’s living, or rather it should.
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