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Shirley Bassey Quotes

Welsh singer, Birth: 8-1-1937 Shirley Bassey Quotes
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I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that feeds them. Eventually, too, they become very jealous of the love one has with an audience.
Shirley Bassey

2.
I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.
Shirley Bassey

3.
Diamonds never leave you... men do!
Shirley Bassey

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I'd like to run away From you, But if you didn't come And find me ... I would die.
Shirley Bassey

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It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.
Shirley Bassey

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6.
You don't get older, you get better.
Shirley Bassey

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No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years.
Shirley Bassey

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I hate it when people come up to me when I'm eating.
Shirley Bassey

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I was a wild kid. I was left to climb trees. And you know those railways logs, they piled them up, six feet apart, and I'd jump from one to the other. Without a safety net! I was an incredible tomboy.
Shirley Bassey

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I wanted to be a model; I wanted to be a nurse; I wanted to be so many things, almost anything but being part of show business.
Shirley Bassey

11.
You should never say "never."
Shirley Bassey

12.
How oddly do life and death jostle each other in this strange world of ours! How nearly allied are smiles and tears!
Shirley Bassey

13.
I'm not getting old. I'm getting better.
Shirley Bassey

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I'm too busy putting my energies into my performance to be a diva.
Shirley Bassey

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I'm always being asked if I watch 'The X Factor,' and I do from time to time. I know it makes for great TV and that Simon Cowell has a real gift.
Shirley Bassey

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When I started singing, I couldn't be shut up.
Shirley Bassey

17.
I decided to retire from show business at the age of 17, because I didn't like it a bit.
Shirley Bassey

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In truth, it requires not only a large intellect, but a large heart, to judge with becoming charity of the peculiar temptations of riches.
Shirley Bassey

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I learned by standing in the wings and watching established acts on stage.
Shirley Bassey

20.
You want success and then when you do get it, you don't want it because of the attention.
Shirley Bassey