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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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Grace Jones
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 19
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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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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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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 like dressing like a guy. I love it. When I was modeling I used to do pictures where I would dress up like my little brother. No makeup and I looked like a boy.
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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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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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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.
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I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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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 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 hate prescription drugs! They don't tell you everything that is in them.
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I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
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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 was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face - or so I was told.
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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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Most performers take themselves too seriously. They forget there is a difference between the characters they play on the screen or stage and themselves, but the public doesn't forget there is a difference. They see how silly it is if you try to be the same person all the time.
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You can't expect your children to be perfect.
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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 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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Some songs come from my head, some from my throat, but there will always be moments when it is an injection of the soul.
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