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Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there’s always one brave enough to stay.

Grace Jones

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
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 am an actress first, a singer second.
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Actress Myself Singing
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
When you become such a strong personality in music, it’s hard for people to accept you as a different character.
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Character Different Hard Personality Strong Yourself
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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Clothes Face Myself Painting Parental
There’re lots of musicians in my family, too. My mother sings incredibly well. I’ve got to make a record with my mother’s voice on it. She sings a lyric soprano. We do the opposite. I’m a baritone. She’s a star singer in her church. She always does her solo.
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Mom Musician Myself Sing Voice
I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
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Different Oneself Time
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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Mistake Myself People Perfection
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.
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Crazy Passing Planning Replacement Version
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
My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.
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Earlier Father Image Myself
Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.
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Cure Forget Health Problem Sex 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
Most performers take themselves too seriously. They forget there is a difference between the characters they play on the screen or stage and themselves, but the public doesn’t forget there is a difference. They see how silly it is if you try to be the same person all the time.
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Difference Forget Performance Person Serious Time Yourself
My husband used to shout at my mother, ‘What is wrong with your daughter? I’m married to a man.’
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Husband Marriage Myself Sexuality

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