The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, ‘What’s so great about Billie Holiday?’
DIANA ROSSI don’t know what my life would have been like if I’d never gotten into show business.
More Diana Ross Quotes
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My children come first and the career comes in around that.
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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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If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains.
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When I’m working I actually forget to eat. I don’t eat sweets because I don’t care about them. I have no real secrets. I just realize that as I get older I should stay strong so I exercise more.
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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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My family called me a wiggle tail because I was a little skinny, wiry kid full of energy.
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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 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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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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My life has often been described as ‘from rags to riches’ but in fact, the Ross’s were never raggedy.
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You can have a lot of New York and still see what’s going on in the rest of the world, I think – like in China.
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I can be a better me than anyone can.
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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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One thing you cannot control is nature.
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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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