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Grace Jones
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 19
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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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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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Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
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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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I hate prescription drugs! They don't tell you everything that is in 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 like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.
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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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I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
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I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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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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My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic.
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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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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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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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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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It doesn't surprise me that people can't see beyond my image. It's amazing, but I can understand it. That's what image is for. But it's never a problem for me. It's only a problem for them. I don't really care. I do what I want regardless.
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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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