I like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.
GRACE JONES
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I like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.
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My husband used to shout at my mother, ‘What is wrong with your daughter? I’m married to a man.’
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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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Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.
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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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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.
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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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I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face – or so I was told.
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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’ve lived long enough to feel the sway of corporations both legal and illegal. Corporations give you drugs and they prescribe and prescribe them and they can be worse for you. Whereas you have illegal drugs and that is all about moderation. You have to know your body.
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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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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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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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You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.
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