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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.

Grace Jones

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Grace Jones
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 19
Actor
Film Actor
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Head
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Moments
Soul
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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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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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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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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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My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic.
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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 am an actress first, a singer second.
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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 don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.
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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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Rock n' roll can get quite overwhelming. You can get caught up in the cycle.
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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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Women and men grow up with both sexes. Our mothers and fathers mean a lot to us, so it's just a question of finding a balance between their influences. I've found mine. And it tends to be more on the male side. I mean male side the way we understand it in the West.
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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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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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Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
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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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