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" There's nothing going into my mouth that's not wrapped. "
Cilla Black
Wrapped
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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'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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" I never thought I'd be on T.V. For me as a kid in Liverpool, it was a more realistic option to be a singer. "
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" In the Sixties, you needed talent to make it. "
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" 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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" I'm very quiet off stage. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I am falling apart. My hand is falling apart. I can't shake hands. I had arthritis, and I had an operation for it. "
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" Back when I was helping put the swing into the swinging '60s, I used to hang out with Cathy McGowan. We'd be doing 'Ready Steady Go!' on T.V., and Biba used to make our dresses. We'd be in the flat in Cromwell Road on Friday night, just before the live show, and they'd still be sewing. "
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