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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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Grace Jones
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 19
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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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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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To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
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Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
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I'm not a rock star, I'm a soft person.
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Rock n' roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.
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I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
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Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.
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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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My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was the touring pianist with Nat King Cole. My family was an explosive mixture of politics, religion and music - no wonder I turned out how I did.
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I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making 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 don't like people who hide things.
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I came from a very strict background, and didn't hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.
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My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic.
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It was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict: our hair couldn't be permed or straightened. So I just cut it all off.
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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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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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I don't think 'pop' should mean that you had no talent.
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