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I think we grow into ourselves. And unfortunately we do it in the spotlight, so when we make mistakes, everybody knows about it.

Boy George

The idea that gay people have to mimic what obviously doesn’t work for straight people any more… I think is a bit tragic. I am looking forward to gay divorces.
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Divorce Forward Mimic More People Straight
What’s really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don’t intend to be one of them.
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Being Embarrassing People Really Sad
The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around ’84 or ’85.
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Country House Paradise People
[Arnold Schwarzenegger] is really good at [‘The New Celebrity Apprentice’ show]. Totally different energy to our potential president, but he’s cool.
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Cool Different Energy President
I try to exist in a world where there is freedom of opinion, where you’re allowed to make jokes. I don’t want to live in some PC world where no-one’s allowed to say anything.
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Alowm Anything Say Trying World
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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Instant Kids People Rivers
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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Believe Choices Goal Satisfied
I just remember the audience looking really horrified because Rosie [O’Donnell] was trying to sell the show as sort of Pippin and Annie. She was saying it’s a family show.
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Family Horrified Looking Remember Show
My family knew I was gay when I was 15, long before I got famous. But it’s a very different thing coming out to your family and coming out to the universe. That’s a big step.
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Big Different Famous Gay Long Step
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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Country People Punk Revolutionary Sanitation Strike
Maybe without me, there wouldn’t be Adam Lambert. Without Bowie, there wouldn’t be me. Without Quentin Crisp, there wouldn’t have been Bowie. So everything is part of a big daisy chain.
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Big Everything Maybe People Without
Except for Courtney Love-who reminded me of that mad snake in The Jungle Book.
BOY GEORGE

Book Courtney Except Jungle Love Snake
Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.
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Appearance Drama Looks
Everything I think in life is about context and intention.
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Intention Life Thinking
She’s probably in denial that she’s a great big ball of insecurity and I’m quite well aware that I am one.
BOY GEORGE

Balls Big Denial Insecurity Probably
You can partake of the buffet a little bit more than you should, so you have to have a routine.
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Bit Little More Routine

I think we grow into ourselves. And unfortunately we do it in the spotlight, so when we make mistakes, everybody knows about it.

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