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Being a parent is very important to me.

Diana Ross

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.
DIANA ROSS

Feeling Myself Production Thinking Writing
I majored in fashion design in school, and I have always wanted to design my own line of clothing, jewelry, and stuff like that; so this was just a step for me in that direction.
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Clothing Design Direction Myself
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.
DIANA ROSS

Forget Myself Reality Secret Strong Work
You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.
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Believe End Need Yourself
I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.
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Adoption Children Mom Myself
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.
DIANA ROSS

Business Daughter Education Important Live Myself
I have three girls, and I say the same thing to them. I’m not involved in their careers because I’ve learned that it’s important for them to stand on their own two feet. They’ll feel better and prouder of themselves if they do.
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Better Career Daughter Feeling Freedom Learning Myself Proud
I really think I want to live in a lot of places.I don’t want possessions to hold me down.
DIANA ROSS

Hold Live Myself Place Possession Thinking
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.
DIANA ROSS

Cry Emotion Myself People Wonder
Take a little time out of your busy day to give encouragement to someone who’s lost their way.
DIANA ROSS

Compassionate Day Encouragement Kindness Lost Time Way
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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Heart Life Myself Selection Thinking Try
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 ROSS

Business Care Decision Health Life Myself Order Parents
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.
DIANA ROSS

Children Friendship Music Myself Thinking
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.
DIANA ROSS

Finding Hard Independence Love Man Myself Strong
I listen to most everything that’s out there because I need to stay aware of what’s happening in the industry.
DIANA ROSS

Industry Listening Myself Need Stay
I know that my fans want to know who I’m sleeping with, but it’s really none of their business.
DIANA ROSS

Business Fans Known Myself Privacy Sleep
I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.
DIANA ROSS

Born Childhood Myself Place
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.
DIANA ROSS

Interview Myself Responsibility Talk
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.
DIANA ROSS

Father Hard Myself Problem Work
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.
DIANA ROSS

Afraid Learning Money Myself Talk Trust
With the Supremes I made so much money so fast all I wanted to do was buy clothes and pretty things. Now I’m comfortable with money and it’s comfortable with me.
DIANA ROSS

Comfortable Fast Money Myself
I would like to enjoy my life a little bit more so I can really have more fun, but my work is my fun.
DIANA ROSS

Enjoyment Fun Life Myself Work
I don’t have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.
DIANA ROSS

Movie Myself Sing
Most people are so hard to please that if they met God, they’d probably say yes, she’s great, but.
DIANA ROSS

God Greatness Herself People
I have a lust for life.
DIANA ROSS

Life Lust One Liner
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.
DIANA ROSS

Forever Myself Stand Train
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?
DIANA ROSS

Direction Life Path Shown Yourself

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