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" I don't see why I should be a dame for just doing what I always wanted to do. "
Cilla Black
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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 would have loved to have cracked America. When I tried, I got homesick. Then, when I was in New York, my nanna died, and I just wanted to come home. "
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" I'm a 'never say never' girl. Frank Sinatra retired four times. He kept coming back. But there are people in our business who want to die on stage. Literally. I don't want to do that. "
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Back
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" There's a whole generation out there who don't know that I was a pop singer in the early days. "
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Early
Generation
" I like being in charge of the remote control. "
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Charge
Being
Remote
" I give 150%. I'm a professional, a pro. "
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Professional
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Pro
" I love cookery programmes. "
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Cookery
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I Love
" I can't say I'm surprised I was successful. I was determined - and I got it. "
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Got
Determined
Successful
" I tried never to take anything for granted. "
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Tried
Never
I Tried
" I knew I could do anything I wanted to do and go anywhere I wanted to go and not have to worry if I could afford it. "
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Afford
Anything
Go
" 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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Great
World
Best
" My idea of baking is buying a ready-make cake mix and throwing in an egg. "
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Egg
Buying
Cake
" You couldn't give me any more confidence than when I was on T.V. because I was in control, but I wasn't in control in my private life. "
Cilla Black
Confidence
Life
Me
" I loved everything about show business, meeting the stars, the whole ambience. I was living every young kid's dream. I was told a pop singer's life was three years, but I was still making money seven years later. "
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Loved
Money
Business
" 'Blind Date' was my lifeline. It was 90 minutes when I could forget about everything, forget about the world. "
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Blind
Everything
Date
" I cannot do business. I cannot sit and say, 'How are you, the weather's great, how's your golf?' I'm like a bull in a china shop. "
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You
Great
Business
" In the Sixties, you needed talent to make it. "
Cilla Black
Make
Sixties
Needed
" I've had days when I go in my bedroom for 24 hours at a time. I call them my Cilla Black days, and they're literally black days. It's like the old Boomtown Rats song 'I Don't Like Mondays.' You just want to shut the whole day down. "
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Day
Song
Time
" 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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Success
People
Looking Back
" I humbly apologise for reality Television. "
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Reality
Reality Television
Television
" I intend to grow old very disgracefully. "
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Very
Grow
Intend
" Really, I'm trying to retire. It's just nobody will let me! "
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Will
Trying
Retire
" Its rock n' roll that has done my hearing in. "
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Done
Roll
Hearing
" It was an unknown thing, a lot of people had very bad trips and I like to be in control. "
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Like
Unknown
People
" I don't want to see a 70-year-old on television. "
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Want
Television
See
" 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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Best
Me
Back
" 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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Losing
Beautiful
Getting Older
" But reality television is here to stay. "
Cilla Black
Here
Television
Reality
" I don't want to live beyond the age of 75. That would be a good point to bow out. I don't want to go on for ever. "
Cilla Black
Go
Age
Good
" 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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