To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
GRACE JONESI 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.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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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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 think ‘pop’ should mean that you had no talent.
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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 have just as much woman in me as I have man. It’s just a matter of channeling the energy into which way you use it.
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It doesn’t surprise me that people can’t see beyond my image. It’s amazing, but I can understand it. That’s what image is for. But it’s never a problem for me. It’s only a problem for them. I don’t really care. I do what I want regardless.
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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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I don’t take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt. I hate them.
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I think I’m doing a service to black women by portraying myself as a sex machine. I mean, what’s wrong with being a sex machine, darling? Sex is large, sex is life, sex is as large as life, so it appeals to anyone that’s living, or rather it should.
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I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
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You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.
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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 love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
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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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Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there’s always one brave enough to stay.
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