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I’m too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.

Grace Jones

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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Acceptance Freak Fun Hard Work Thinking
I came from a very strict background, and didn’t hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.
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Growth Myself Strict
I like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.
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Day Interview Lose Myself Voice Work
I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn’t have had a child.
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Children Myself Positive Thinking
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.
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Appearance Man Modeling Myself Start
I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
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Different Oneself Time
I don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
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Hate Myself Serious
I am an actress first, a singer second.
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Actress Myself Singing
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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Balance Father Finding Growth Man Understand Woman
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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Coffee Talk Wine
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
This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you’re rocking
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Depression Rock Yourself
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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Head Injection Moments Myself Soul Throat
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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Home Life Mirror Modeling Quit
I hate prescription drugs! They don’t tell you everything that is in them.
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Hate Prescription Yourself
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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Dress Make Up Modeling Myself

I’m too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.

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