Diana Ross Quotes
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.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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You don't have to do everything from scratch. Nobody wants to make puff pastry!
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It's always interesting about God because it's like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.
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What is our greatest enemy? Segregation.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.
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Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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I love David's attitude in the Bible. He wasn't afraid to go against the trends. He wasn't going to be defined by the opinions of others.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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I remember actually liking a girl in high school who was kind of an outcast and weird, and people made fun of her. I remember hanging out with her, but I was apprehensive about telling anyone I really liked her.
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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Acting is not that far from mental disease: An actor works on splitting his character into others. It is like a kind of schizophrenia.
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When you turn up for work, especially with looking down the barrel of a show, you're hoping the person you're acting opposite of is going to be on your kind of crazy wavelength.
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One hopes that with a book or movie, the reader or the audience will emerge from it thinking. That's the most you can hope for: that you've raised questions that will be there for the audience to think about later.
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In the beginning [of my career] I definitely felt a responsibility because I was representing a bunch of people [Sri lankans] who never got represented before. I felt this responsibility to correct that situation, to be like, "Look, you can't discriminate against refugees and Muslim people and blah, blah, blah . . ."
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I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist.
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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.
