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 ROSSIf 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.
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 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 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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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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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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I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.
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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’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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If I’m with a man I’m soft and buttery.
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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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I really think I want to live in a lot of places.I don’t want possessions to hold me down.
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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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Hair has always been important.
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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 listen to most everything that’s out there because I need to stay aware of what’s happening in the industry.
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