People can take your name and write a book about you and they make money off of it. How is the public supposed to know you’re not authorizing that book? As soon as you make a big stink about it it only makes the book sell more.
DIANA ROSSIf 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.
More Diana Ross Quotes
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If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains.
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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 even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.
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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 have never gotten into the label thing.
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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 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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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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It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park.
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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 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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I know that my fans want to know who I’m sleeping with, but it’s really none of their business.
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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 name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.
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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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