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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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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
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I want to go Africa. I want to go to China. There are some places I want to go not to work, but to really explore and to see for my own education.
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I use Jimmy Galanos gowns for real special occasions and things - television, special occasions where I know I'm being filmed. But I never really wear his gowns on stage. My stage gowns are more costumey. There's different levels of things that I wear.I would never wear my stage gowns to a party.
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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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For some reason, my main movie, Lady Sings the Blues, to me really isn't me. I really can let go of Diana Ross when I see the movie. I'm really objective when I'm watching it. I liked that movie so much. That movie was like magic so that when I'm looking at it I'm really not seeing myself, I'm seeing the actress. I'm seeing another person, not the me of 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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If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains.
Diana Ross
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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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All of a sudden I feel more womanly, I feel like I got a figure. I was always really straight up and down, the skinny one in the middle, like that poster at Elaine's of the Supremes at Lincoln Center - it was done by Joe Eula. To me that's really a reflection of the way I was. I was just like a bean pole. Now I'm getting a few curves and I like it.
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I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.
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It's not fair that our name can be used in any newspaper, any article connected with anything, and we can't really fight about it. It's like any newspaper that might take a picture of you, bad or good, and sometimes they're awful pictures, and they can use them without your approval and you can't do anything about it.
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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 want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.
Diana Ross
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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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It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it.
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I don't know what my life would have been like if I'd never gotten into show business.
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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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I listen to most everything that's out there because I need to stay aware of what's happening in the industry.
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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
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Icon. What is an icon? When someone is iconic it means they have established a certain kind of legacy possibly, and I think it does come with time. It's something in the arts, I feel. Maybe not, maybe it doesn't have to be in the arts exactly. I'm not really sure. But I don't think you are born an icon.
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You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.
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I don't have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.
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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