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I've turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It's an absolute no-go. Grace Jones
Reality Down TV Absolute Go Dollars Reality TV Turned Millions Millions Of Dollars
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. Grace Jones
You Church Think Dancing Pentecostal Proper Hymns Up Very Quiet Jamaica Fiery Might Growing Growing Up Fundamental Thing British
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. Grace Jones
Man Thought Nothing Other Everybody Had Genetic Arms Modelling Models Just Much Really Started Raise Muscle Muscles
I love women, but I've never had a relationship with a woman. Grace Jones
Love Relationship Woman Women Never Had
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. Grace Jones
Life Reality Losing My Life Half Stage Sense Took Spent Out Thousands Mirrors Perfect House Got Reflections Modelling Quit Where After Staring
I don't take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt... I hate them. Grace Jones
Hate Seriously Press Dirt Take Because Want Them English
I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does. Grace Jones
Me Vain Saved Too See Excess Does Sins Biggest
I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old. Grace Jones
School Old Black Girl High High School Only Had Looked Accent Junior Junior High Junior High School Really
We're not perfect; we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults. Grace Jones
People Not Perfect Faults See Perfect Like Might Show Things
I am an actress first, a singer second. Grace Jones
First Singer Am Actress Second
I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face - or so I was told. Grace Jones
Face High Had Cheekbones Very Interesting Skinny Rail
If you want me to work with you, then come with an idea. Come with music. Grace Jones
Work Music Me You Idea Come Want Then
I have been so copied by those people who have made fortunes that people assume I am that rich. But I did things for the excitement, the dare, the fact that it was new, not for the money. And too many times I was the first, not the beneficiary. Grace Jones
People Money Made First Rich Assume Too Those Dare Fact Excitement New Am Been Times Did Fortunes Who Many Things Copied
More having to do whatever anybody said you had to do. I couldn't really do anything on my own. But as I got older and then came to America and then Grace became my name, it somehow freed me. All of a sudden, I can be this other person. Grace Jones
Me You Grace Whatever Own Older Other Somehow My Own Having More Had Freed Name Became Said Got Came Person America Anybody Anything Then Really Sudden
I am not a diva: I am a Jones. 'Diva' is so overused. Diva, icons, the whole thing, legends... To be a diva, what is that? Grace Jones
Diva Am Overused Legends Icons Whole Thing
Normally, I stay away from politics - unless I'm going to run for president. Grace Jones
Politics President Unless Run Stay Normally Going Away
Human beings should stick together. Honestly, if I see a red-haired person with blue eyes now, I say, 'Is your granny black?' Grace Jones
Together Eyes Black Honestly Say See Stick Person Blue Blue Eyes Human Human Beings Should Your Granny Beings Now
I don't wear jewelry, so I wear furs. I don't have diamonds. Grace Jones
Jewelry Wear Diamonds
They used to call me Firefly when I was a little girl, and I always tried to figure out why I was being called a firefly. I was really black, black, black from the sun. After being in Jamaica for 13 years, my eyes were really beady and white, and my skin was really black. I must have really looked like a fly. My eyes looked like lights, like stars. Grace Jones
Me Eyes Fly Black Girl White Skin Stars Sun Out Must Tried Lights Like Looked Call Always Were Years Being Jamaica After Little Little Girl Really Used Figure Why
Sometimes we'd have to climb a tree and pick our own whips to be disciplined with. When you had to pick your own whip, you knew you were in for it. Grace Jones
You Sometimes Own Tree Our Had Pick Knew Disciplined Climb Were Whip Your
I like to experiment, and as an actress, I always thought it's good to be open about a lot of things. Grace Jones
Good Thought Experiment About Open Like Always Lot Actress Things
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. Grace Jones
You Trend Will Yesterday Latest Merely Soon Long-Term Along Always Got Passing Coming Version Very Louder Replacement Crazier Plan Then Event Phase
This is what I would say to my pupil: 'You have become only your fame and left behind most of who you were. How are you going to deal with that? Will you lose that person forever? Have you become someone else without really knowing it? Do you always have to stay in character for people to like you? Do you know that you are in character?'. Grace Jones
Character You People Will Become Lose Else Say Pupil Would Stay Someone Only Do You Know Like Know Most Knowing Without Deal Always How Were Left Fame Forever Person Going Behind Really Your Who
Listen to my advice; I have some experience. In a way, it is me being a teacher, which is what I wanted to be. I still feel I could go into teaching. What is teaching but passing on your knowledge to those who are at the beginning? Some people are born with that gift. Grace Jones
Teacher Me Knowledge Experience People Gift Some People Advice Beginning Way Those Some Born Could Feel Still Passing Go Listen Being Wanted Which Your Teaching Who
I had no childhood, really, so I imagined more than played, and that definitely led to my showbusiness image, the theatrics and the drama of my life. Grace Jones
Life My Life Drama Definitely More Had Led Than Childhood Really Image Played Imagined
My mum was very glamorous, an incredible seamstress. She made up those Vogue, Givenchy and Yves St. Laurent patterns they used to sell. It was church couture, darling! Because my dad was a pastor, she could get away with more than other women. Her skirts were that bit tighter. Grace Jones
Women Church Made Other Incredible Bit Those Darling More Vogue Could Glamorous She Because Tighter Couture Were Sell Up Very Pastor Than Get Patterns Used Skirts Dad Mum Away Her
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