There will always be a replacement coming along very soon – a newer version, a crazier version, a louder version. So if you haven’t got a long-term plan, then you are merely a passing phase, the latest trend, yesterday’s event.
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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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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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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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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I hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
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Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.
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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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To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
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I love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
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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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Whatever one is creating, one has to stick to one’s guns and just do it. That is all. Put your foot down and do not let your work be compromised.
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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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I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.
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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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I’m not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn’t like what they were saying. Just lash out. ‘Bam – shut up! Hahahah!’ I was terrible.
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