I’d got very successful, everyone knew who I was, but I felt very empty.
BOY GEORGEThe New Romantic scene was so tiny. Although it got lots of mileage in the media, it was a really small club with only a core group of people. As it got more popular, kids started to come from the suburbs all dressed up, but it -really wasn’t as big as it looked.
More Boy George Quotes
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I don’t get all this Speedo stuff actually, I mean, whatever happened to the feather boa?
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Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
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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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Everything I think in life is about context and intention.
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My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I’m quite a loving person and I’ve always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I’m very interested in other people, and if you are, they’re interested in you.
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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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I think being individual in the show business is what gives you life and longevity.
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I’m always tweeting about food and things that I’ve made.
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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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In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw myself as a victim.
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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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For me, I’ve gotten better at that since I’ve gotten older. I never was good at that when I was younger.
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The fabulous side of Taboo was dressing up and dancing like no one was watching you. There were no rules.
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The 1970s was probably the most exciting decade to be a teenager, from discovering Little Richard at the end of the 1960s to glam rock to punk rock to electro music.
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I have the best job in the world. There’s not really a lot to moan or whine about. I’ve got the privilege of going out and doing something I absolutely love.
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