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 ROSSTake a little time out of your busy day to give encouragement to someone who’s lost their way.
More Diana Ross Quotes
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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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With the Supremes I made so much money so fast all I wanted to do was buy clothes and pretty things. Now I’m comfortable with money and it’s comfortable with me.
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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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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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Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move on and I don’t hold on to that.
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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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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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I don’t think getting in and out of a limousine has anything to do with being an icon.
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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 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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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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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 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 even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.
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