Quotes by Cilla Black - Page 2

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 / Singer
Beyond
Bow
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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.
Cilla Black / Singer
Arthritis
Apart
Falling
Hand
Operation
Shake
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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.
Cilla Black / Singer
If I Could
Worry
Afford
Anywhere
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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.
Cilla Black / Singer
Reading
Claim
Developed
Longer
Pill
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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.
Cilla Black / Singer
Appreciate
Gone
Being
After
True
Miss
Say
Got
Looked
They Say
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It is when I am on stage that I feel most comfortable. It is my home. It is the only thing I have known since I was a kid.
Cilla Black / Singer
Home I Am Feel
The Only Thing
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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.
Cilla Black / Singer
Beautiful
Fun
Pain
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If I can't eat the meal in a restaurant, and the waiter asks, 'Is everything all right, Madam?', I tell them that I'm on a diet.
Cilla Black / Singer
Diet
Waiter
Ask
Madam
Meal
Restaurant
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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.
Cilla Black / Singer
China
Golf
Weather
Business Great Your
Bull
Shop
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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.
Cilla Black / Singer
Diamond
Earrings
Getting Older
Hearing
Losing
Pain
Older
Wearing
No Fun
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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 / Singer
Confidence
Give Me
Private Life
Life Me Control
Life Me Confidence
Private
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I didn't think before that I'd done enough to justify publishing an autobiography but after 40 years in show business I'm now ready to tell my story.
Cilla Black / Singer
Stories
Thinking
Years
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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.
Cilla Black / Singer
New York
Cracked
Died
Homesick
Loved
Tried
York
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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.
Cilla Black / Singer
Bike
Coronation
Fine
Weight
Street
Lounge
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I love books and the latest autobiographies. I'm a Gemini and love being with people, but then again, I love my own company, which is when I read most.
Cilla Black / Singer
Autobiographies
Latest
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You see on 'Britain's Got Talent' and 'X Factor,' they all wear ear plugs. But I could not hear myself when I wore them. So that is where the strong voice came from.
Cilla Black / Singer
Britain
Strong
Talent
Voice
Came
Ear
Factor
Hear
Wear
Wore
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'Blind Date' was based on an Australian show called 'Perfect Match', which I first saw when I was on tour there. And I couldn't understand why it wasn't on British T.V.
Cilla Black / Singer
Australian
Blind
British
Perfect
Understand
Based
Show
Date
Saw
Match
Tour
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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.'
Cilla Black / Singer
Critics
Looking Back
Ordinary
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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.
Cilla Black / Singer
Albums
Blind
Documentaries
Resigned
Years
Album
Celebrating
Date
Channel
Documentary
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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.
Cilla Black / Singer
Advice
Inside
Best Me Advice
Tv
Best Me Difficult
Carried
Carry
Foot
Gave
Studio
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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.
Cilla Black / Singer
Frank
Never Say Never
Retired
Literally
Sinatra
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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.
Cilla Black / Singer
Equality
Feminism
Always Believe Me
Equality Always Believe
Bill
Equality Believe I Believe
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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.
Cilla Black / Singer
Accepting
Blessed
Destiny
Fate
Gone
Live For Today
Today
Tomorrow
Trying
Control
Life Today Tomorrow
Back
Whatever
Happen
Pulled
Store
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On girls night in we talk about dating; the ups and downs of the previous week. Our collective laughter is uncontrollable and tearful, even the most disappointing dates become meritorious on girls night in.
Cilla Black / Singer
Girl
Laughter
Night
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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.
Cilla Black / Singer
Show Business
Lots
Best Business Great
Marry
Great Friends
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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.
Cilla Black / Singer
Ambience
Making Money
Show Business
Stars
Life Business Money
Meeting
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The first time I went to Abbey Road and put those headphones on, I discovered I had two voices. I no longer had to shout in the studio, but I can't knock the Cavern or the other clubs because they gave me my strong voice.
Cilla Black / Singer
Abbey
Clubs
First Time
Headphones
Voice
Time Me Voice
Time Me Road
Discovered
Gave
Longer
Studio
Shout
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T.V. found me. I was offered jobs. It came in handy when I started having babies. Just one night's work, and then I could go home. I loved 'Surprise Surprise', but it was hard work. 'Blind Date' was a doddle by comparison.
Cilla Black / Singer
Blind
Comparison
Hard Work
Just One
Surprise
Work Home Me
Babies
Work Home Hard Work
Date
Go Home
Offered
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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.
Cilla Black / Singer
Bedroom
Hours
Rats
Literally
Shut
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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.
Cilla Black / Singer
Catholic
Every Night
Might
Next
Next Year
Night
Phrases
Please
Roman Catholic
Spares
Used
Usual
Pray
God Me Night
God Me Parents
Oh
Year
Brought
Parents
Picked
Roman
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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.
Cilla Black / Singer
Andrew
Beach
Benefits
Enjoyed
Husband
Late
Special
Bobby
Stay
Practically
Luxuries
Private
Spoils
Suite
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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!'
Cilla Black / Singer
Dear
Mummy
One Day
Son
Television
Robert
Sudden
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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.
Cilla Black / Singer
Cathy
Dresses
Friday
Friday Night
Helping
Ready
Sewing
Steady
Hang
Swing
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When I was fifteen, I remember my mum taking me to the posh clothes shop on London Road to get my first grown-up coat. It was royal-blue and very adult, and I thought, Gosh, this is great! But when my mum said to the assistant, "What's the lowest price you'll take for this?" I nearly died of shame, and wanted to run away.
Cilla Black / Singer
Running
Blue
Clothes
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Singer Cilla Black's introduction to homophobic bullying occurred during a visit from Billy, a dear childhood friend. Sharing a room with Ms Black's boyfriend, Billy Returning after having gone out by himself: collapsed by the bed and burst into floods of tears, his face bruised and splattered with blood. ... " I'm Gay," Billy said, "and I've just been beaten up and robbed by a guy who picked me up in a bar and took me back to his place."
Cilla Black / Singer
Blood
Bullying
Gay
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