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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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" If I'm with a man I'm soft and buttery. "

" My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunites. "

" I just appreciate still having the longevity that I've had in my career. "

" I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto. "

" I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly. "

" I don't think getting in and out of a limousine has anything to do with being an icon. "

" I keep a great organiser, I try to keep my priorities in the right place. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I look forward to the future - and going into the studio to make new music. "

" One thing you cannot control is nature. "

" My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches,' but in fact, the Rosses were never raggedy. "

" I listen to most everything that's out there because I need to stay aware of what's happening in the industry. "

" You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself. "

" With the Supremes I made so much money so fast all I wanted to do was buy clothes and pretty things. Now I'm comfortable with money and it's comfortable with me. "

" 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. "

" People don't know about the human part of me that really cares about the world. For instance, I don't know what I feel about wearing my furs anymore. I worked so hard to have a fur coat, and I don't want to wear it anymore because I'm so wrapped up in the animals. I have real deep thoughts about it because I care about the world and nature. "

" 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. "

" I'd traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to. "

" I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother. "

" When we first began, we didn't have any hits. "

" I'm a dreamer. "

" If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains. "

" Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move on and I don't hold on to that . "

" It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it. "

" 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. "

" The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?' "

" I think that if my voice for some reason changes - because your voice does change - then it's time for me not to sing. "

" 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. "