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I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.

Grace Jones

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
You can’t expect your children to be perfect.
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Children Perfection Yourself
Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.
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Drugs Legal Prescription
My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We’ve all been very athletic.
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Athletics Brother Myself
I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face – or so I was told.
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Appearance Face Myself Skin
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
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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Appearance Education Myself School
There’re lots of musicians in my family, too. My mother sings incredibly well. I’ve got to make a record with my mother’s voice on it. She sings a lyric soprano. We do the opposite. I’m a baritone. She’s a star singer in her church. She always does her solo.
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Mom Musician Myself Sing Voice
I can look at a fur and tell if it’s good or not.
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Animal Goodness Yourself
When I perform on stage I become those male bullies, those dominators from my childhood. That’s probably why it’s so scary, because they scared me.
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Childhood Myself Performance Scare Stage Trauma
I don’t think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
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Myself Talent Thinking
I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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Design Myself Start
Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
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Fantasy Modeling People Reality
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
Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there’s always one brave enough to stay.
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Brave Carriage Empty Enough Stay
I’m not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn’t like what they were saying. Just lash out. ‘Bam – shut up! Hahahah!’ I was terrible.
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Impatience Myself People Terrible

I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.

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