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I had my very first relationship at 27 because I really had not actually come to terms with my sexuality until I was 24.
George MichaelGeorge Michael There is no such thing as a reluctant star.
George MichaelGeorge Michael I couldn’t change anything without changing the end position, and I’m perfectly happy now. So whatever I feel in some sense may have been a mistake in the past is, in another sense, not a mistake, because it’s left me here.
George MichaelGeorge Michael I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am.
George MichaelGeorge Michael Sex is natural, sex is good/Not everybody does it, but everybody should.
George MichaelGeorge Michael I can’t believe that I’ve written my best work yet. If I believed that, then I wouldn’t bother releasing music anymore.
George MichaelGeorge Michael It’s the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn’t you say?
George MichaelGeorge Michael I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.
George MichaelGeorge Michael Playing with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy.
George MichaelGeorge Michael If someone really wants to hurt you, they’ll find a way whatever. I don’t want to live my life worrying about it.
George MichaelGeorge Michael Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace.
George MichaelGeorge Michael My music is some of the most honest music that’s been released and I think that’s why people buy it.
George MichaelGeorge Michael I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your courage back, which is what’s important.
George MichaelGeorge Michael I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I’ve still got some work to do.
George MichaelGeorge Michael My mother pretty much used to go along with my dad in that she wanted me to get an education so that if this incredible dream I had didn’t work out, I would have something to fall back on.
George MichaelGeorge Michael We [with Andrew Ridgeley] didn’t expect people to take it seriously. But naturally they did, and they thought we were a couple of wankers.
George MichaelGeorge Michael
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ShamaShama Stop counting the reasons why they should be loved and start counting the many reasons why you are the one who is worth loving.
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Barbara GianquittoBarbara Gianquitto You cannot leave and have me too I cannot exist in two places at once-when you ask if we can still be friends.
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