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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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Rock n' roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.
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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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I hate prescription drugs! They don't tell you everything that is in them.
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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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Whatever bling always has something to hide.
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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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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'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 don't like people who hide things.
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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 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 like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn't have had a child.
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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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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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Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
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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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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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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 only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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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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