Dinah Shore Quotes

Dinah Shore (14)

Birth:	29th February, 1916
Death:	24th February, 1994
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Singer

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• Why should unmarried women be discriminated against – unmarried men are not.

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• When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music – they are music.

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• When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don’t think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.

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• Trouble is part of your life – if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

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• My tastes are eclectic.

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• In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music.

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• I’m not really a country singer, although I did make a couple albums and love its simple, straight-from-the-heart approach, but I have always sung a lot of jazz, show tunes, pop tunes, gospel and blues.

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• I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.

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• I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today.

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• I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t singing.

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• Emmys are wonderful and I’m thrilled to death that I have mine. But they’re representative of a specific achievement, where this sort of thing is representative of how you’ve grown in your own industry.

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• Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower.

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• And I’ve never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad.

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• The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, ‘Don’t spend anything unless you have to.’

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