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There is no such thing as a reluctant star.

George Michael

I find it difficult enough as it is to keep some kind of normality in my life. I enjoy this experience, but I don’t know where I’m going to take my career.
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Career Difficult Enough Experience Kind Myself Normal
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
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.
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Comfortable Myself Time
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
Stars are almost always people that want to make up for their own weaknesses by being loved by the public and I’m no exception to that.
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Make Up Myself People Public Weakness
I had my very first relationship at 27 because I really had not actually come to terms with my sexuality until I was 24.
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Identify Myself Relationship Sexuality
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.
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Couple Expectation Myself People Serious
I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 – in certain parts of the world anyway.
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Myself Stars Time Way World
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.
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Believe Music Myself Time Writing
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
It’s really difficult trying to find the line where you don’t piss anybody off.
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Boundary Difficult Yourself
This stuff [marijuana] keeps me sane and happy. I’d say it’s a great drug – but obviously it’s not very healthy.
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Drugs Greatness Happiness Healthy Myself
I suppose maybe if I had been an attractive child, I would have had less inclination to push my physical presence.
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Attraction Children Myself Physical Presence
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 also think I could probably repeat the commercial success; whether I want to or not is a different matter. I think there is still better work inside me.
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Better Commercial Different Myself Repeat Success Thinking

There is no such thing as a reluctant star.

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