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I’VE ALWAYS BEEN A REBEL. I NEVER DO THINGS THE WAY THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO BE DONE. EITHER I GO IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION OR I CREATE A NEW DIRECTION FOR MYSELF, REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE RULES ARE OR WHAT SOCIETY SAYS.

Grace Jones

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Grace Jones
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 19
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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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Women and men grow up with both sexes. Our mothers and fathers mean a lot to us, so it's just a question of finding a balance between their influences. I've found mine. And it tends to be more on the male side. I mean male side the way we understand it in the West.
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I thought I'd take style to its limit... My philosophy is a belief in magic, good luck , self-confidence, and pride.
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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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Whatever bling always has something to hide.
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I'm not a rock star, I'm a soft person.
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There're lots of musicians in my family, too. My mother sings incredibly well. I've got to make a record with my mother's voice on it. She sings a lyric soprano. We do the opposite. I'm a baritone. She's a star singer in her church. She always does her solo.
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Disco was like the celebration of music through dance and my God! When you heard the music sometimes it was like, if you don't get up and dance, you aren't human!
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Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.
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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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I am an actress first, a singer second.
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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 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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There will always be a replacement coming along very soon - a newer version, a crazier version, a louder version. So if you haven’t got a long-term plan, then you are merely a passing phase, the latest trend, yesterday’s event.
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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'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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Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
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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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I always thought that feminine, softer side was just too vulnerable to put out there, because then it's like you're opening up a door for everybody to come in, and you don't know who's going to come in that door.
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