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" I like to think of myself as a positive person. Otherwise I wouldn't have had a child. "
Grace Jones
Person
Myself
Child
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" I like to experiment, and as an actress, I always thought it's good to be open about a lot of things. "
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Lot
Like
Open
" 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
Eyes
Fly
Girl
" I don't take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt... I hate them. "
Grace Jones
Dirt
Want
Seriously
" You don't do oysters and red wine together. That's a no-no; you just don't do that. I love a nice white wine with oysters. "
Grace Jones
You
Love
Nice
" I'm not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn't like what they were saying. Just lash out. 'Bam - shut up! Hahahah!' I was terrible. "
Grace Jones
People
Saying
Used
" I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does. "
Grace Jones
Too
Me
Excess
" 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
Will
Plan
" 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
Experience
Gift
" Shock always sells. You know? But you could shock in good taste. "
Grace Jones
You
Taste
Shock
" 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
Say
You
" I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my own clothes. "
Grace Jones
Clothes
Authority
Painting
" I like conflicts. I love competition. I like discovering things for myself. It's a childlike characteristic, actually. But that gives you a certain amount of power, and people are intimidated by that. "
Grace Jones
Myself
Love
Power
" Normally, I stay away from politics - unless I'm going to run for president. "
Grace Jones
Run
Away
Going
" 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. "
Grace Jones
Know
Brick
Yellow
" I don't like people who hide things. We're not perfect, we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults. "
Grace Jones
Perfect
Hide
Not Perfect
" I've turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It's an absolute no-go. "
Grace Jones
Reality TV
Down
Reality
" When you become such a strong personality in music, it's hard for people to accept you as a different character. "
Grace Jones
Strong
Music
Personality
" It's important that the sexes understand each other. "
Grace Jones
Each
Understand
Other
" I don't think 'pop' should mean that you had no talent. "
Grace Jones
Should
Talent
Mean
" I feel feminine when I feel feminine. I feel masculine when I feel masculine. I am a role switcher. "
Grace Jones
Feel
Am
I Am
" When I perform on stage I become those male bullies, those dominators from my childhood. That's probably why it's so scary, because they scared me. "
Grace Jones
Stage
Scary
Childhood
" I'm always rebelling. I don't think I'll ever stop. "
Grace Jones
Always
Think
Ever
" I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone. "
Grace Jones
You
Born
Die
" Use, don't abuse. "
Grace Jones
Abuse
Use
" For me, a diva is like the great opera singer, the great film star - out of reach, in their own world, with a real gift for invention: attention-demanding performance artists with a flamboyant, compelling sense of their own importance so special and inimitable it verges on the alien. "
Grace Jones
Me
Great
Gift
" My brother used to get beaten up all the time because he was very effeminate. "
Grace Jones
Because
Brother
Time
" Gaga came to me, and I just could not find a soul. I come from church; maybe that has something to do with it. I like to get to the soul of a person. I just didn't feel a soul. "
Grace Jones
Find
Feel
Church
" 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. "
Grace Jones
Like
Know
Door
" One creates oneself. "
Grace Jones
Oneself
Creates
" I am an actress first, a singer second. "
Grace Jones
Second
I Am
Singer