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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.

Grace Jones

I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old.
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Appearance Education Myself School
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
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
I am an actress first, a singer second.
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Actress Myself Singing
I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
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Accident Myself Singer Thinking
I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
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Different Oneself Time
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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Audition Interpret People Thinking Voice
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
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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Devour Instinct Life Primary Survive Yourself
I hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
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Hate Prescription Yourself
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 thought I’d take style to its limit, My philosophy is a belief in magic, good luck , self-confidence, and pride.
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Limitation Myself Pride Style Thinking
Whatever; bling always has something to hide.
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Bling Hide
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
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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Impatience Myself People Terrible
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 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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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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