I don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
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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In the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it required a certain amount of clear thinking, a lot of hard work and good make-up to be accepted as a freak.
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I am an actress first, a singer second.
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When I was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all sense of reality – so after I quit modelling, I took all the mirrors out of my house.
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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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Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.
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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 only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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I always thought that feminine, softer side was just too vulnerable to put out there, because then it’s like you’re opening up a door for everybody to come in, and you don’t know who’s going to come in that door.
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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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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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My husband used to shout at my mother, ‘What is wrong with your daughter? I’m married to a man.’
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I hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
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I’ve turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It’s an absolute no-go.
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I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
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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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