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" I did smoke a joint once but I did not enjoy it. "
Cilla Black
Joint
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Did
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" Nothing is a career move. Everything I've done this year has so not been a career move. "
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" But reality television is here to stay. "
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" Well it has been very exciting and very changing as well. Celebrating the 40th year and having the album out and the Channel 4 documentary and I resigned from Blind Date. "
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" I love cookery programmes. "
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Programmes
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" Who wouldn't fancy Brian Epstein? He was tall and handsome and had money and class. "
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Who
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" Having a biopic made is very flattering. "
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" It's no fun getting older. I might be wearing beautiful diamond earrings, but they can't take away the pain of losing my hearing. "
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" I've got a bike in the lounge that I watch Coronation Street on. I never had to watch my weight until I had the children, but with the bike, I'm fine. "
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" I just thank God when I wake up every day. "
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Every Day
God
" I'm a Roman Catholic. Or was. I was brought up that way and used to say my prayers every night, but I don't pray to God any more. I might use the usual phrases I picked up from my parents, 'Oh, if God spares me next year...' or 'Please God...' but they're only phrases. "
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Say
Way
" Really, I'm trying to retire. It's just nobody will let me! "
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" After Fergie and Prince Andrew honeymooned at Le Touessrok in Mauritius, Bobby, my late husband, and I were first to stay in their suite. We enjoyed the benefits - all the spoils and the special luxuries. We practically had our own private beach, and it was most romantic. "
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Husband
Beach
" The best advice he gave me was to carry on. It would have been difficult to set foot back inside a TV studio if I hadn't carried on - I don't know if I would have ever gone back in. "
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Me
Back
" I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was. "
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Because
Biography
" The nicest thing about coming of age is that I can do whatever I like. "
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I Can
" Anything which interferes with my social life is a no-no. "
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Anything
Social Life
" I like being in charge of the remote control. "
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Charge
Being
Remote
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Hearing
" I give 150%. I'm a professional, a pro. "
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Give
Pro
" I remember one day my son, our Robert, was looking at me on the settee and looking at me on the television, and then all of a sudden he said: 'Why don't you bring that pretty mummy home with you?' And I thought: 'Oh dear, I'm going to have to dress up at home now as well!' "
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Home
Dress
Day
" I can do the PR thing until the cows come home. That's my nature. I never want to upset anybody. "
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Nature
Upset
Want
" When people ask me do I believe in feminism - well, I didn't even know I was a feminist. I was the top of the bill; I've always been the top of the bill. So I don't know what equality is. "
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Know
Equality
" I don't want to see a 70-year-old on television. "
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See
" I was so ordinary, critics couldn't understand it, but looking back, that was the reason for my success. What you see is what you get. People thought, 'I could do that.' "
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People
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" I wouldn't mind being a talent show judge if it didn't run for too long. "
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" I've got lots of great friends in show business, and that's all they are. Great friends. I'll never marry again - what's the point? I had the best. I've got friends all over the world, and that's enough for me. "
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World
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" I don't want to see older people on T.V. I want to see young, pretty people on T.V. "
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" On my gravestone, I want 'Here lies the singer,' not 'Here lies the T.V. presenter'. "
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