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Someone once said a cynic is just a disappointed romantic. That really, really sums me up.

Boy George

The 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.
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Group Kids Media People Popular
When you’re younger, you think you’re in competition with everyone. You think everyone’s success is a threat to you, and this is a thing you grow out of.
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Competition Realizing Thinking
I don’t know whether when I was 20 years old or 25 years old if somebody would have come along with incredible wisdom whether I would have really listened.
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Incredibles Old Somebody Years
My God is better than your God
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Better God Religious Wars
A lot of people come up to me all the time and say thank you for helping me be who I am. So my thing wasn’t just about sexuality. It was about anyone who felt different; anyone who felt out of place. Being gay was one part of it.
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Gay Helping People Sexual Thank
You had disco going on behind punk. You had Michael Jackson. You had the Sex Pistols.
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Behind Disco Person Punk Sex
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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Acting Autobiography Song Writing
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
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
I knew style and content went hand in hand.
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Content Hands Style
I exercise. I go to the gym every day. It’s about respecting what you’re doing. You’re going on stage. You have to sleep. You have to be prepared.
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Doing Exercise Sleep Stage
What happened during the previews of ‘Taboo’ [musical] was that it was the first time I’d ever been written about as a great song-writer.
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Drug Musical Song Writer
I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
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Cups Sex Tea
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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Better Good Gotten Older Younger
Taboo was kind of celebrating trash, the kind of records you secretly loved, like Yes Sir, I Can Boogie, by Baccara [laughs] – things that you probably shouldn’t like.
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Kind Laughing Records
I suppose I was seen more as an elder statesman because I had been around the London club scene for so many years. To the Taboo crowd I was really seen as a pop star, someone famous.
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Around Country Famous More Pop Someone Taboo

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