Boy George Quotes

I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. ...Nobody really sells records anymore.

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• If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Want
  • You
  • Giving

• The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Life
  • Never
  • Actor

• I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Years
  • Face
  • Scare

• That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Character
  • Together
  • Teach

• Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Future
  • Achievement
  • Gender

• I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Think
  • Awesome

• She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

  

  O. Henry
  • Woman
  • Act
  • Invisible

• What I've learned is sometimes it's good not to have all the same actions and have all the same takes. The variety you provide gives the director later on in post-production the ability to construct a more interesting performance as he puts the movie together.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Good
  • Together
  • Movie

• Hospitals are about healing.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Healing
  • About
  • Hospitals

• My dream is to be on my boat. Or on an island. Or in my house in the country. That's my dream.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Country
  • House
  • Dream

• I used to be called Waddy Jones. But I changed my name to Ninja because it's more me.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Name
  • Changed
  • Ninja

• People want fashion from us, whereas they might buy core styles from other designers.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • People
  • Want
  • Fashion

• I would still like to own and run a restaurant serving Indian food with a good dollop of Parsi cooking - which you can't seem to get anywhere.

  

  Zarin Mehta
  • Good
  • Food
  • Cooking

• Remember, while the work can sometimes appear to be simple to a viewer, the ability to perform expertly, consistently, precisely, over and over again, under pressure and on demand is what's needed.

  

  Randy West
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Simple

• There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Today
  • Value

• I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Team
  • Like
  • Feel

• In August of 2011, Steve Jobs, the tech icon who disrupted a string of traditional industries, called me and told me he thought he'd figured out a way to revolutionize TV. He invited me to come see it at Apple in a few months, but he died just six weeks later, and that meeting never came to pass.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Thought
  • Meeting
  • August

• I very, very much want to be involved in helping those senators, congressmen, and women who support the principles that made America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
  • Women
  • America

• 'Never Gonna Give You Up' in 1987 was a huge international hit followed by several more, and while I appreciated how lucky I was, it catapulted me into a completely new world and simply took over my life.

  

  Rick Astley
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Men
  • Business
  • Risk

• A handful of sand is an anthology of the universe.

  

  David McCord
  • Universe
  • Handful
  • Anthology

• So, if we must give a general formula applicable to all kinds of soul, we must describe it as the first actuality of anatural organized body.

  

  Aristotle
  • Soul
  • Formula
  • Actuality

• To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' - that was the worst thing.

  

  Alan Hollinghurst
  • Worst
  • Apologize
  • Concede

• I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. ...Nobody really sells records anymore.

  

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