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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

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.
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Acceptance Believe Complaint Decision
I am an actress first, a singer second.
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Actress Myself Singing
I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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Design Myself Start
Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.
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Clothes Flow Music Myself
That’s what they do in Argentina. Have a little wine and talk. Then have some coffee and talk. Then, go back to the wine.
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Coffee Talk Wine
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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Fundamental Growing Quiet Thinking Yourself
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 don’t like people who hide things.
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Hide Lying People
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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Flow Follow Journey Known Leadership Myself
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’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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Body Enough Feeling Live Sway Worse Yourself
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
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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Channeling Man Way Woman Yourself
Whatever; bling always has something to hide.
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Bling Hide
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
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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Break Enough Modeling Rule Start

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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