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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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Grace Jones
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 19
Actor
Film Actor
Model
Recording Artist
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Models
Supposed
Art
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Fantasy
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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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Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there's always one brave enough to stay.
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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 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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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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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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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 was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face - or so I was told.
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Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.
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I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
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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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This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you're rocking
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Rock n' roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.
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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 like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.
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I don't think 'pop' should mean that you had no talent.
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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 go feminine, I go masculine. I am both, actually. I think the male side is a bit stronger in me, and I have to tone it down sometimes. I'm not like a normal woman, that's for sure.
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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 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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