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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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Grace Jones
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 19
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I am an actress first, a singer second.
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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 didn't think I had a voice at all, and I still think of myself as an interpreter of songs more than a singer. I thought it was too deep people thought I was a man. I had a very strong Jamaican accent, too the accent really messed me up for auditions.
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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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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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I came from a very strict background, and didn't hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.
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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 have just as much woman in me as I have man. It's just a matter of channeling the energy into which way you use it.
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I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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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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When I started modelling, I'd raise my arms and it was all muscle and all the other models had nothing. Really, everybody thought I was a man. I don't have to do much to have muscles. It's just genetic.
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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 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 don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
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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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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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To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
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