It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it.
DIANA ROSSI’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.
More Diana Ross Quotes
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I’ve never been damaged or hurt by press. It’s just that I think it’s unfair to use your name in media.
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I have a lust for life.
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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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If 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.
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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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If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains.
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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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They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there.
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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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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 have never gotten into the label thing.
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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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My children come first and the career comes in around that.
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I really don’t think that Detroit was any different than New York of Boston or Philadelphia. Kids always wanted to listen to music outside because that’s where they hung out with their friends.
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I don’t judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really hard to identify someone by saying that they’re a gay person or a black person or a Jewish person.
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