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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 Michael

I think the media is a real demon.
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Demon Media Myself Reality Thinking
At a certain age I just stopped arguing. I realized that there was no way [my father] could see, because for him to approve of what I was doing, he would have to have some belief in me as a musician.
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Age Approval Argument Musician Myself Realization Stop
You’ll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.
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Heart Listening Mindset Peace Yourself
By the time I was in my early teens, we were able to move into a much more middle-class area. I had a comfortable adolescence.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Comfortable Myself Time
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.
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Care Despair End Joy Replacement Share
My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion – 24 hours a day for years.
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Day Father Myself Occupation Work
I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I’ve still got some work to do.
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Believe Myself Thinking Work
I don’t have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.
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Joy Listening Music Myself Watch
This is a very fickle business. It’s really about how much you value the other things in your life. I still value too many other things more than I do fame.
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Business Fame Myself Value
The most common misconception people have had in the past is about my own control and calculation of my career.
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Calculation Career Control Myself Past People
Even though it’s become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it’s still effective and it still has to be done.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Charity Music Myself See Work
50 percent of the people I perform for have come to scream at me and the other 50 percent have come to listen to the music.
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Listening Myself People Performance Scream
Freedom. I will not give you up.
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Determination Freedom Give Up Yourself
Playing with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Big Career Childhood Fantasy Moments Myself Play
I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.
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Myself Person Right Sexuality Wrong
[My family] is one of the strongest families you’re ever likely to see.
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Endurance Family Myself Strong
Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.
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Happiness History Myself Way
I’m surprised that I’ve survived my own dysfunction, really.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Achievement Dysfunction Myself Surprised
My mother is much more musical, and by the time I started writing songs – by the time I was about 17 – she started to believe in me, musically.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Believe Music Myself Time Writing
I don’t want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?
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Age Myself People See
Teacher, there are things that I don’t want to learn.
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Learning Myself Teacher
I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.
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Believe Gift God Greatness Man Music Myself
When someone is always going to be there for you. I meet people like that all the time, but I have this unfortunate attraction to people I think I have to fight to become friends with.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Attraction Fight Friendship Myself People Time
When you shake you ass, they notice fast. And some mistakes were built to last.
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Build Fast Mistake Notice Shake
There is no such thing as a reluctant star.
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Reluctant Stars
I’d never touch anything. I think it’s foolhardy to play around with the face that you’ve been given. To have a little snip or a tuck, I think, is really quite obscene.
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Face Obscene Play Quite Thinking Touch
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.
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Dreams Fall Family Father Myself Work

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.

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