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Boy George Quotes

I look at myself at 19 and think I would never do what I did then now! I was so brazen, so confident, so fearless in a way. And remember, the world was a very aggressive place then.

Boy George

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: english
Birth: June 14, 1961

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Myself Fearless World Think Look

If you're a movie star, there's a cycle you go through: adoration, adulation, you're used, and then you're discarded. And it happens again and again, always in that sequence.

John Cusack

You Go Always Through Star Used

Sometimes there are actions that we are forced to take, but there need to be boundaries beyond which we are going to recognize that we're not going to go because we still are Americans, and we are supposed to be representing something to people in this country and overseas.

John O. Brennan

People Country Go Sometimes Beyond

I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture it might seem, because I've learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself.

Michael Cunningham

Feel Way Need Over Years Seem

The diversity in the CNN makeup room - it's like Ellis Island! No, it's like Noah's Ark: there are two of everything.

Ana Navarro

Diversity Makeup Island Everything

While I ridicule books of self-help, I'm also quite susceptible to them. They help simplify things.

Amitava Kumar

Help Simplify Things Books Self-Help

I'm a big fruit-and-vegetable kind of guy.

Sonny Perdue

Kind Big Guy

I don't think you go out of style when you're living in the present most of the time. And I think that is what I do.

Shirley MacLaine

Time Style Think Present You Living

It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.

Robert E. Lee

War Grow Well Terrible Should Fond

Growing up in Holland, I always thought my name was boring, but in the U.S., all of a sudden I have a very cool name.

Michiel Huisman

Cool Growing Up Thought Name Growing

It's always nice when people discover I'm a normal person and not, because of my appearance, a half-crazed lunatic who may stab them with a Bic pen.

Jason Mantzoukas

People Pen Appearance Person Nice

I'm obsessed with pilgrimages. I love following old routes, imagining the consciousness of those who walked them.

Johnny Flynn

Love Old Consciousness Who Those

Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction.

Donna Tartt

Life Character Me Blood Fiction