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.
DIANA ROSSThe first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, ‘What’s so great about Billie Holiday?’
More Diana Ross Quotes
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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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My problem is that people have been writing books about me.A lot of things that people write about you are incorrect, but you don’t fight about it.
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They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there.
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I spend too much money on my sets and my gowns. I think the presentation is important. I don’t think people want to see the old show all the time.
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I am in prayer for his kids and the family.
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I keep a great organiser, I try to keep my priorities in the right place.
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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 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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I don’t like to have too many makeup artists around, so I always like to do my own.
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Hair has always been important.
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One thing you cannot control is nature.
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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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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 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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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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