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Grace Jones Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: model
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Birth: May 19, 1948

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Women Church More She Up Glamorous

I assumed when I was first selling the franchises that everyone would be as excited as I was to wake up in the morning to bake bread and slice vegetables.

Jimmy John Liautaud

Morning Wake Up Selling Vegetables

When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses', what he means is that we don't necessarily believe what a poem is saying if it comes out and tells us in an absolutely head-on, in-your-face way; we only believe it to be true if we feel it to be true.

Saying Believe Philosophy Be True Us

I don't know for a fact, but I feel fairly certain that the first person who described a movie as 'character driven' had to have been a producer or studio executive.

Character Feel Person Know First

The first private space of my own wasn't a dorm room; it was a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Space Hotel My Own First Room Own

I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have.

Time Imagination Think Sometimes See

My view on politics is much more grassroots oriented; it's not old boy network oriented, so I tend to, you know, come at it a little bit stronger, a little bit more street-wise, if you will. That's rubbed some feathers the wrong way.

Politics View Stronger You Wrong

I do not think that war is always wrong: sometimes it is necessary to stop a dictator, prevent massive human-rights abuses, or expel an invader. But I have also seen that in the modern world, civil wars are the greatest threat to humanitarian security.

Jonathan Powell

War World Think Security Wrong Stop

Green Day was more of the influence than Blink.

Day Green Influence More Blink Than

Another term for balloon is bad breath holder.

Bad Balloon Breath Bad Breath Holder

We all have such common ways to identify with each other, and I think when you approach music in that organic way, it's almost indescribable how it connects human to human and heart to heart.

Music Heart Think You Way Human

True horror, I think, deals with dread and menace and gets under your skin.

Think Skin True Horror Your I Think

I think whenever people talk about the 'Anna Sui woman,' they're talking about someone that's probably kind of more downtown, and there's always like this ambiguity: Is she a good girl, or a bad girl?

Good Girl Woman People Think Bad

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