I don’t have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.
DIANA ROSSThey 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.
More Diana Ross Quotes
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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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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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You can always tell where Diana Ross has been by the hair that’s left behind!
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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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The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, ‘What’s so great about Billie Holiday?’
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Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it’s show business. You know, we all got rhythm.
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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.
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I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.
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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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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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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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I’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.
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I’d traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to.
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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 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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