I have a lust for life.
DIANA ROSSI 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.
More Diana Ross Quotes
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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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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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I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.
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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 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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You can’t just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You’ve got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.
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I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. They come in their own time.
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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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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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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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If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains.
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If I’m with a man I’m soft and buttery.
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So I’m not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I’m happy that I have them; I think it’s good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside, like anger.
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I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what’s going on in my life.
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Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it’s show business. You know, we all got rhythm.
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