Dame Shirley Bassey Quotes

• You don’t get older, you get better.

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• I hate it when people come up to me when I’m eating.

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• I’m a virgin and I brought up all my children to be the same.

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• No wedding bells for me anymore. I’ve been happily married to my profession for years.

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• Diamonds never leave you… men do!

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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.

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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.

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• 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.

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

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Dame Shirley Bassey (9)

Birth:	8th January, 1937
Nationality:	Welsh
Profession:	Singer

About

Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey is a Welsh singer. She found fame in the mid-1950s and has been called "one of the most popular female vocalists in Britain during the last half of the 20th century". In the US, in particular, she is best known for recording the theme songs to the James Bond films Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever, and Moonraker.

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