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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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Grace Jones
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 19
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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 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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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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I like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.
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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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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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Growing up in Jamaica, the Pentecostal church wasn't that fiery thing you might think. It was very British, very proper. Hymns. No dancing. Very quiet. Very fundamental.
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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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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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There will always be a replacement coming along very soon - a newer version, a crazier version, a louder version. So if you haven’t got a long-term plan, then you are merely a passing phase, the latest trend, yesterday’s event.
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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 only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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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 was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face - or so I was told.
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Disco existed before we were all born and will exist afterwards. It is a ritual - it is a celebration - and it is the same kind of music that we call disco or rock'n'roll or a whole list of names that we can call it. Call it what you will, nothing will change the fact that certain kinds of music will make you want to celebrate or party.
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Whatever bling always has something to hide.
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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 am an actress first, a singer second.
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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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