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" English people have seen me get through scandals. "
George Michael
Get
Through
Me
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" I've achieved what every artist wants, which is that some of their work will outlive them. "
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" I've been very well remunerated for my talents over the years so I really don't need the public's money. "
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" I have the audience I deserve. Or at least I have the audience that represents the kind of people that I like. "
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" I find it too terrifying to go out in L.A. "
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" I'm not stupid enough to think that I can deal with another 10 or 15 years of major exposure. I think that is the ultimate tragedy of fame... People who are simply out of control, who are lost. I've seen so many of them, and I don't want to be another cliche. "
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" I had been obsessed with insects and creepy-crawlies: I used to get up at five o'clock in the morning and go out into this field behind our garden and collect insects before everyone else got up, and suddenly, all I wanted to know about was music. It just seemed a very, very strange thing. "
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" It's important to me that I should be free to express myself. "
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" I'm just not security-minded. "
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" Anybody who fights for human rights or to make this world a better place. Nurses, doctors, teachers: these are the people who deserve the credit these days. "
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" It's only when the kids are in their late twenties that families really face up to what they are. "
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" I really have no plans for any kind of career in TV or anything, but if I wanted to become good at it, I could. But I don't really think it's in the cards. "
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" A lot of people like me, who've been around for years and years and years, only really lose it in their forties and fifties. "
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" I spent the first half of my career being accused of being gay when I hadn't had anything like a gay relationship. "
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" I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s. "
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" 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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" In the very early days of Wham! the attention felt great, but I do wonder how much freedom I gave away by trying to become something I wasn't. "
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" Deep down, my ego always thought that I would outlast a lot of people that I was competing against. "
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" I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man. "
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" My ego is sated. "
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" The first sign of real obsession with music was with an old wind-up gramophone that mum had thrown out into the garage. My parents gave me three old 45s - two Supremes records and one Tom Jones record - and I used to come home from school literally every day, go out to the garage, wind this thing up, and play them. "
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" I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do. "
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" If someone really wants to hurt you, they'll find a way whatever. I don't want to live my life worrying about it. "
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" It's absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don't want to emulate that. "
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