Boy George Quotes
I was approached by this guy Chris Renshaw, who had read my book and had read Leigh's book. He wanted to incorporate both characters - he probably felt Leigh wasn't famous enough and he realized Leigh Bowery and I were associated.
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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I'm the girl that's on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded. But my weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body's covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.
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If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
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A lot of people think that because I'm from Malaysia, I'm driven by Malaysian sound, but actually, it's mostly just my melodies.
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American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity' and denied admission to the country to most non-whites. Immigration from Asia was banned completely, with the establishment of an 'Asiatic Barred Zone.'
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You feel like you're really a part of a movement when you're singing Journey at a karaoke bar.
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Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
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Muslims are ordinary members of the working public, just like you.
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I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants.
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No other facet of American business is more corrupt, more intoxicated with illegality, more weakly regulated, and has a greater impact on poor and working people than debt collectors; not credit card companies or subprime mortgages, not even payday lenders.
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My social circle, my best friends, are all people that I met at UCB.
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I think I would like the sort of job where you can work away in obscurity to try and improve things, without being caught up in the political maelstrom.
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I used to audition for 'NYPD Blue' quite a bit, so I had this stock New York detective character that I would bring in for all their auditions.
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We say keep your change, we'll keep our God, our guns, our constitution.
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Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.
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With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight.
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It's a war, I think, to save the planet, really, from ourselves.
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I was approached by this guy Chris Renshaw, who had read my book and had read Leigh's book. He wanted to incorporate both characters - he probably felt Leigh wasn't famous enough and he realized Leigh Bowery and I were associated.
