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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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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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Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there's always one brave enough to stay.
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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 was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face - or so I was told.
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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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I don't think 'pop' should mean that you had no talent.
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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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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 came from a very strict background, and didn't hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.
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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 just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don't know where it's going to lead me, but I follow it.
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I thought I'd take style to its limit... My philosophy is a belief in magic, good luck , self-confidence, and pride.
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This is depression, it comes when your blocking. This is expression it comes when you're rocking
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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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I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.
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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 believe in having certain releases, certain outlets. One has to indulge. If you don't indulge, you don't live -might as well be dead. I believe in indulging as a user and not as an abuser.
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You can't expect your children to be perfect.
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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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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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