My life has often been described as ‘from rags to riches’ but in fact, the Ross’s were never raggedy.
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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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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Being a parent is very important to me.
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My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.
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I keep a great organiser, I try to keep my priorities in the right place.
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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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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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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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My family called me a wiggle tail because I was a little skinny, wiry kid full of energy.
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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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A reporter once asked me if I ever cried. I wonder if people think I’m just as hard as a rock and have no emotions at all.
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Most people are so hard to please that if they met God, they’d probably say yes, she’s great, but.
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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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I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.
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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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I would like to enjoy my life a little bit more so I can really have more fun, but my work is my fun.
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