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

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Source : "Bassey is back". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2009.

Shirley Bassey

#Singing Quotes #Shut Up Quotes

“And now I have to stop. Because every time I remember this, I have to cry a little by myself. I don't know why something that made me so happy then feels so sad now. Maybe that is the way it is with the best memories.”
“I was always attracted to science fiction movies”
“Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.”
“We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.”

Source : A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge introduction, sec. 3 (1710)
“Love yourself. Just love yourself. In fact, the love of the self cures every kind of problem you have with yourself. For instance, if someone calls you nappy-headed, it rolls right off your body, if you love nappy hair. Or if someone calls you buck-toothed or too black, that won't be a problem if you love being buck-toothed or black. If you love it, then so what. The development of self-love cures many of the ills that people suffer from.”

Source : "Alice in Walkerland: The “PBS American Masters”". Interview with Kam Williams, lasentinel.net. February 10, 2014.
“In many ways, I think it's easier in some ways, or it's more entertaining or more guaranteed to be entertaining than traditional improvising. Again, because you're not just you in your body.”
“The connection between conscious and unconscious poses particular problems in the dancer because the body is the soul of action.”
“I think about the body kind of all the time, being as how I'm really uncomfortable in mine.”

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