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I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.
Diana Ross
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Diana Ross
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: March 26
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Detroit
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Diana Ernestine Earle Ross
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So I'm not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I'm happy that I have them I think it's good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside, like anger.
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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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It seems like I don't have a lot of time for all the things I need to do. I'm spreading myself fairly thin. I have responsibilities to my children. I have a big staff that works for me. And when you have a staff, and I'm sure you know this, you're always concerned with everybody's life all the time.
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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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It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park.
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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'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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You can have a lot of New York and still see what's going on in the rest of the world, I think - like in China.
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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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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 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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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 really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. They come in their own time.
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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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