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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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Grace Jones
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 19
Actor
Film Actor
Model
Recording Artist
Singer
Songwriter
Life
Losing
Reflections
Took
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Quitting
Half
Staring
Perfect
Thousands
Sense
Mirrors
House
Reflection
Reality
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Modelling

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