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There is no such thing as a reluctant star.

George 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.
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Couple Expectation Myself People Serious
I am really not interested or excited by repeating former successes.
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Excitement Form Interest Myself Repeat Success
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
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.
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Change End Myself Past Perfection Position
Sex is natural, sex is good/Not everybody does it, but everybody should.
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Natural Sex
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
When you shake you ass, they notice fast. And some mistakes were built to last.
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Build Fast Mistake Notice Shake
Be good to yourself ’cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.
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Goodness Happiness Power Self Love Yourself
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
Playing with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy.
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Big Career Childhood Fantasy Moments Myself Play
I’m a perfectionist. It’s a big pain in the ass and it takes a lot of my time, but it really is going well and I have to do my own things.
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Myself Perfection Time
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
Take back your picture in a frame. Take back your singing in the rain. I just hope you understand sometimes the clothes do not make the man.
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Clothes Hope Man Myself Photograph Sing Understand
All we have to see is that I don’t belong to you, and you don’t belong to me.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Myself Relationship See 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.
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Comfortable Myself Time
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
Because of the media, the way the world is perceived is as a place where resources and time are running out. We’re taught that you have to grab what you can before it’s gone. It’s almost as if there isn’t time for compassion.
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Compassionate Media Place Resource Run Teaching World
Change is a stranger you have yet to know.
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Change Deep Perspective Stranger Yourself
I have been taken for a ride a couple of times. I’ve been hurt by people who I’ve had a 90 percent possibility of being hurt by.
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Couple Hurt Myself Possible Time
I don’t go for safe options. Romantically, I go for people who are a pain in the ass.
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Myself Opinion Pain People Romantic Safety
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
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
My music is some of the most honest music that’s been released and I think that’s why people buy it.
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Honesty Music Myself People
Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.
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Democracy Fact Minority Politics Yourself
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.
GEORGE MICHAEL

Career Difficult Enough Experience Kind Myself Normal
It’s really difficult trying to find the line where you don’t piss anybody off.
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Boundary Difficult Yourself
There is no such thing as a reluctant star.
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