I swallowed hard. It was my life. And it was my choice how I decided to live it.
My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.
I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.
My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.
I'm not commercial, I'm not for Special K cereal and I'm not a Wheaties boy; I'm a little bit more avant-garde, a little bit more out there.
I came up the old-fashioned way - tea boy, cutter, focus-puller, cinematographer - but I wasn't myself old-fashioned.
There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.
I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues.
I had been warned about Jews by my gentile friends - they did terrible things with knives to boys.
I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat.
I can't think of a better model for Haiti rebuilding than Rwanda.
I mean we grew up in a TB bus and I became a TB doctor.
The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.
I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy.
I was a chubby boy. My pants used to wear out in the middle, and it was because my legs used to rub together. I wasn't obese, just chunky.
Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be.
Being a small boy it's very daunting seeing the Queen around and not really quite knowing what to talk about.
It has been rumoured that I was the brains of the robbery, but that was totally incorrect. I've been described as the tea boy, which is also incorrect.
Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.
You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.
Racial segregation in the South not only separated the races, but it separated the South from the rest of the country.
