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 JONESThat’s what they do in Argentina. Have a little wine and talk. Then have some coffee and talk. Then, go back to the wine.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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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Women and men grow up with both sexes. Our mothers and fathers mean a lot to us, so it’s just a question of finding a balance between their influences. I’ve found mine. And it tends to be more on the male side. I mean male side the way we understand it in the West.
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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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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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Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.
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I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
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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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Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.
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I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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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 hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
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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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This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you’re rocking
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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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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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