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I am an actress first, a singer second.

Grace Jones

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Grace Jones
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 19
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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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You can't expect your children to be perfect.
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I'm not a rock star, I'm a soft person.
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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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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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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 came from a very strict background, and didn't hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.
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I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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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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Prescription drugs can be even worse than illegal drugs. The only difference is the legality.
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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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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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To be honest, my life is not really as way-out and myth-loaded as people like to portray it.
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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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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 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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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’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 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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