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.
GRACE JONESI like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn’t have had a child.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
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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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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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Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.
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Whatever one is creating, one has to stick to one’s guns and just do it. That is all. Put your foot down and do not let your work be compromised.
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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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I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn’t have had a child.
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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 don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
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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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I go feminine, I go masculine. I am both, actually. I think the male side is a bit stronger in me, and I have to tone it down sometimes. I’m not like a normal woman, that’s for sure.
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Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there’s always one brave enough to stay.
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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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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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Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.
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