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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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Grace Jones
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 19
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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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I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn't have had a child.
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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 was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face - or so I was told.
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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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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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Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there's always one brave enough to stay.
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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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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 don't think 'pop' should mean that you had no talent.
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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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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 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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