I’m not really a songwriter – I’m an interpreter. So in a sense I am an actress first and foremost. I act out the songs, and I lead with my heart.
DIANA ROSSMy children come first and the career comes in around that.
More Diana Ross Quotes
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I know that my fans want to know who I’m sleeping with, but it’s really none of their business.
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I have a lust for life.
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What’s important for me is to give my daughters a well-rounded education and a mixture of people in their lives. They’ll make their own choices. I think they would be good in show business.
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You can always tell where Diana Ross has been by the hair that’s left behind!
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Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know?
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Discipline is a necessary tool to help you get what you want in life. It forces you to stay on center and to move away from the things that are not necessary.
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I don’t have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.
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I learned something from that. If someone asks me something that I really don’t want to do, I say no. I have to trust that. And I’m not afraid to talk money.
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It’s easier for me to sit with the producers and the writers and I give them my feelings and my thoughts and what I think I feel like singing about and then they go away and write it.
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My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.
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The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, ‘What’s so great about Billie Holiday?’
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You can have a lot of New York and still see what’s going on in the rest of the world, I think – like in China.
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I really think I want to live in a lot of places.I don’t want possessions to hold me down.
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I majored in fashion design in school, and I have always wanted to design my own line of clothing, jewelry, and stuff like that; so this was just a step for me in that direction.
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I jog and I roller-skate. I dance – that’s the best exercise.
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I don’t care about vacations. I go away and I come back real quick because I like my work. I really like my work to consume me.
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I look forward to the future – and going into the studio to make new music.
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Take a little time out of your busy day to give encouragement to someone who’s lost their way.
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I keep a great organiser, I try to keep my priorities in the right place.
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If I’m with a man I’m soft and buttery.
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I’d traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to.
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I don’t judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really hard to identify someone by saying that they’re a gay person or a black person or a Jewish person.
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If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains.
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One thing you cannot control is nature.
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Hair has always been important.
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Most people are so hard to please that if they met God, they’d probably say yes, she’s great, but.
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