Grace Jones Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: model
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: May 19, 1948

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GreatMeWorldPerformanceGift

I have never written out of a desire to be controversial.

Meg Rosoff

DesireNeverOutControversial

I'm an emotional fighter; that's no secret. But it can be detrimental.

Michael Bisping

FighterSecretEmotionalDetrimental

Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.

John Wooden

YourselfYouBe TrueTrueEveryone

My organization, my colleagues and I, are paid to run hotels in good times and fair times. We're professionals. That's what we do. I don't give a damn about the short-term market implications.

Steve Wynn

GoodGood TimesOrganizationRun

For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.

Toni Morrison

TimePeopleConflictBlackMedia

I don't go to a gym, I don't do yoga. I don't do personal training.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

TrainingGymGoPersonalYoga

I've always loved the guitar. You see Jimi Hendrix playing the guitar with his teeth, and OK, you know you're never going to be able to do that, but I always wanted to play an instrument of some sort.

Michelle Ryan

GuitarLovedYouPlayKnowTeeth

I always wanted to make a children's album because you have the freedom to explore so many wonderful topics and sounds.

Lisa Loeb

FreedomChildrenYouExploreAlways

I'm not rich.

Claire Denis

Rich

Slavery is America's original sin and was the great global injustice of that age.

Chrystia Freeland

AgeGreatSlaveryAmericaInjustice

The harsh reality is this: to have influence in the world, you need to be willing and able to reward your friends and punish your enemies.

Antonio Garcia Martinez

InfluenceWorldRealityYouReward

Singing actually came first. As a kid, I grew up singing in church and around the house.

Tink

SingingChurchHouseFirstKidUp

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