For me the most interesting thing about Leigh Bowery was the way he used his body as a style statement. He was a big guy, but, because he was tall and had long legs, he looked in proportion – even sexy – despite being overweight by conventional standards.
BOY GEORGEYou get older and you suddenly realize the only person you’re in competition with is yourself.
More Boy George Quotes
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The most political thing you can do is be yourself
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You can partake of the buffet a little bit more than you should, so you have to have a routine.
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I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
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For me with “The Apprentice,” it kind of blew out my business brain. I don’t really think of myself as a business person.
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I’m not someone who can sing anything… And my favorite singers aren’t people whose voice you would say is amazing.
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I was about 16 when punk started to happen. It was so exciting. You had a social depression going on in the U.K. There was a sanitation strike. London was really grim, gray. You had Margaret Thatcher coming in. It was a really revolutionary time.
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His designs were often breath-taking, but it was the way he used his body that was so utterly new and refreshing.
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As a kid, I would’ve loved to get a tweet from David Bowie or Joan Rivers or Tom Cruise. It’s great that you can communicate with people and it’s instant.
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I’d got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
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The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don’t believe you get wiser because you get older. It’s a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously
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I think for me one of the big things was realizing that being Boy George is my job. It’s what I do.
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I was about 16 when punk started to happen… It felt like you had this naive idea that you could change things just by wearing something.
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I’m always being inspired .
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I think people could be a bit friendlier. The only real contact you have with people is when they’re annoyed if you’ve had a party – you know, it’s been a bit too noisy for them or something.
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I cried. I absolutely wept, because it wasn’t the usual stuff like, “Oh, he was a drug addict and he did this and that…” It was really looking at the music and it was really complimentary. It was a huge thing.
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