My life has often been described as ‘from rags to riches’ but in fact, the Ross’s were never raggedy.
DIANA ROSSSo every time I make a new circuit, a new time around, then I change the show. You can’t change the songs; people still want to hear “Lady Sings the Blues” and they still want to hear some of the oldies.
More Diana Ross Quotes
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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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Being a parent is very important to me.
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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 want to go Africa. I want to go to China. There are some places I want to go not to work, but to really explore and to see for my own education.
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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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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 jog and I roller-skate. I dance – that’s the best exercise.
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It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it.
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I just appreciate still having the longevity that I’ve had in my career.
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I have three girls, and I say the same thing to them. I’m not involved in their careers because I’ve learned that it’s important for them to stand on their own two feet. They’ll feel better and prouder of themselves if they do.
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My family called me a wiggle tail because I was a little skinny, wiry kid full of energy.
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I keep a great organiser, I try to keep my priorities in the right place.
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I’ve never been damaged or hurt by press. It’s just that I think it’s unfair to use your name in media.
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My father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn’t want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer, the one who wanted everyone to be happy. I didn’t want there to be any problems.
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So every time I make a new circuit, a new time around, then I change the show. You can’t change the songs; people still want to hear “Lady Sings the Blues” and they still want to hear some of the oldies.
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I’m a parent, and I try to take care of my health and keep my life in order. In the last few years I’ve really had to decide what’s important to me, and it seems to me that my family and my health are top on the list. And those have nothing to do with show business.
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If we hold on together I know our dreams will never die Dreams see us through to forever Where clouds roll by For you and I.
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All my gowns have trains on them. I make a train that goes on forever. I love long trains and then I stand there and twirl around and wrap myself up in it.
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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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If I do an interview, then I take full responsibility. I figure I’m not going to talk to anyone that I think is unethical anyway.
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I want to live in Paris for a couple of years. I’m dying to do the Josephine Baker story. I really want to be there and do it. It’s certainly my intention to do it.
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A reporter once asked me if I ever cried. I wonder if people think I’m just as hard as a rock and have no emotions at all.
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People can take your name and write a book about you and they make money off of it. How is the public supposed to know you’re not authorizing that book? As soon as you make a big stink about it it only makes the book sell more.
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I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.
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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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Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.
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