When I started modelling, I’d raise my arms and it was all muscle and all the other models had nothing. Really, everybody thought I was a man. I don’t have to do much to have muscles. It’s just genetic.
GRACE JONESI’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.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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I’m not a rock star, I’m a soft person.
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Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.
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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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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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Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
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It’s ridiculous for a woman to say that she’s not attracted to other women. That’s completely false.
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I came from a very strict background, and didn’t hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.
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You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.
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You can’t expect your children to be perfect.
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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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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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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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Some songs come from my head, some from my throat, but there will always be moments when it is an injection of the soul.
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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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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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