Survival is my primary instinct…it’s out of my control. It’s stronger than me. It’s an outside force, a voice that says ‘do this for your life or it will devour you.’
GRACE JONESWhatever 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.
More Grace Jones Quotes
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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’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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We’re not perfect; we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.
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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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I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn’t have had a child.
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It’s ridiculous for a woman to say that she’s not attracted to other women. That’s completely false.
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I’m not a rock star, I’m a soft person.
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I like working until the morning, so I can see the day and then I like to go to sleep and then get up before sunset. But I love the energy of the morning.
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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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I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes.
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I wear my furs all the time. I wear like three different ones in a day.
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I love women, but I’ve never had a relationship with a woman.
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I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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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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I believe in having certain releases, certain outlets. One has to indulge. If you don’t indulge, you don’t live -might as well be dead. I believe in indulging as a user and not as an abuser.
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