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Survival is my primary instinct…it’s out of my control. It’s stronger than me. It’s an outside force, a voice that says ‘do this for your life or it will devour you.’

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
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
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
Survival is my primary instinct…it’s out of my control. It’s stronger than me. It’s an outside force, a voice that says ‘do this for your life or it will devour you.’
GRACE JONES

Devour Instinct Life Primary Survive Yourself
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 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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Day Energy Morning Sleep
It was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict: our hair couldn’t be permed or straightened. So I just cut it all off.
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Conservative Hairs Orthodox Ourselves Pain Struggle
I like dressing like a guy. I love it. When I was modeling I used to do pictures where I would dress up like my little brother. No makeup and I looked like a boy.
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Dress Make Up Modeling Myself
Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.
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Drugs Legal Prescription
You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.
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Energy Man Philosophy Sexuality Yourself
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
My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.
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Athletics Brother Myself
I’m still shocked every time I see snow. The first bit of snow each year… I stay up and I watch it. And then I go out and pick it up and eat it and move around in it.
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Myself Snow Stay Time
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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Celebration Dance God Human Music
This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you’re rocking
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Depression Rock Yourself
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.
GRACE JONES

Flow Follow Journey Known Leadership Myself

Survival is my primary instinct…it’s out of my control. It’s stronger than me. It’s an outside force, a voice that says ‘do this for your life or it will devour you.’

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Survival is my primary instinct…it’s out of my control. It’s stronger than me. It’s an outside force, a voice that says ‘do this for your life or it will devour you.’

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