Cilla Black Quotes
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When I go out, it's to have a good time, not to find a man.
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I like being in charge of the remote control.
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Having a biopic made is very flattering.
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It's hard to watch your life unfold, and sad. Life changes.
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I always believed I would be a star.
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The difference with me is that I did inhale.
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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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I've had a blessed life. I've pulled back from trying to control my destiny and gone back to accepting whatever fate has in store for me. I live for today because I don't know what'll happen tomorrow.
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I don't like the selfie because it's too close. There ain't no people with arms long enough to do a selfie of me.
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I'm apolitical. Where all that Conservative business came along from, I don't know.
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Anything which interferes with my social life is a no-no.
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I'm very quiet off stage.
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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 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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I don't see why I should be a dame for just doing what I always wanted to do.
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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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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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I always wanted to be a star.
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I was reading about an age pill that has been developed which they claim will make you live longer. That is not for me.
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But reality television is here to stay.
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It's true what they say: 'You don't appreciate what you've got until it's gone.' I miss love. I miss being looked after.
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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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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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There's a whole generation out there who don't know that I was a pop singer in the early days.