I really think I want to live in a lot of places.I don’t want possessions to hold me down.
DIANA ROSSYou know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.
More Diana Ross Quotes
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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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All my gowns have trains on them. I make a train that goes on forever. I love long trains and then I stand there and twirl around and wrap myself up in it.
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I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what’s going on in my life.
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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 have a lust for life.
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I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.
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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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If I’m with a man I’m soft and buttery.
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I don’t care about vacations. I go away and I come back real quick because I like my work. I really like my work to consume me.
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My father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn’t want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer, the one who wanted everyone to be happy. I didn’t want there to be any problems.
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I have never gotten into the label thing.
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Discipline is a necessary tool to help you get what you want in life. It forces you to stay on center and to move away from the things that are not necessary.
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So I’m not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I’m happy that I have them; I think it’s good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside, like anger.
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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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My family called me a wiggle tail because I was a little skinny, wiry kid full of energy.
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