I’ve never been damaged or hurt by press. It’s just that I think it’s unfair to use your name in media.
DIANA ROSSI 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.
More Diana Ross Quotes
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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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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.
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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 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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If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains.
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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’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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Being a parent is very important to me.
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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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Hair has always been important.
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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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The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, ‘What’s so great about Billie Holiday?’
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I am in prayer for his kids and the family.
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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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One thing you cannot control is nature.
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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 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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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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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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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 was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.
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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 know what my life would have been like if I’d never gotten into show business.
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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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I think that if my voice for some reason changes – because your voice does change – then it’s time for me not to sing.
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I jog and I roller-skate. I dance – that’s the best exercise.
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