"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'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 look forward to the future - and going into the studio to make new music."
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"I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information."
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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 just think Josephine Baker life story needs to be done. I think she was an extraordinary woman. To see someone who was basically a showgirl have the kind of lifestyle she had was extraordinary. I really think she made her own lifestyle."
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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 am in prayer for his kids and the family."
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"My children come first and the career comes in around that."
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"I have never gotten into the label thing."
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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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"When I'm working I actually forget to eat. I don't eat sweets because I don't care about them. I have no real secrets. I just realize that as I get older I should stay strong so I exercise more."
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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 really think I want to live in a lot of places.I don't want possessions to hold me down."
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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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"It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park."
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"I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life."
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"I don't think getting in and out of a limousine has anything to do with being an icon."
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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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"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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