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" There are things about my mum that I only realised later, things that make me admire her. "
George Michael
Admire
Things
Me
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" It's strange. At some point in your career, the situation between yourself and the camera reverses. For a certain number of years, you court it and you need it, but ultimately, it needs you more, and it's a bit like a relationship. The minute that happens, it turns you off... and it does feel like it is taking something from you. "
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You
Camera
Relationship
" 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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Me
Like
Years
" I watch people who are not driven by creativity any more, and I think how dull it must be to produce the same kind of thing. If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it. "
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Creativity
You
Think
" I have got other interests than just making music. I would like to follow those interests through. "
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Like
Just
Follow
" I'm 10-12 years into life as an out gay man, and I'm a different person. I think there are things about my journey that might be useful to other people, and coming up with a hit record on its own doesn't seem to be enough anymore. "
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Life
Man
People
" I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying. "
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American
Government
Bullying
" I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music. "
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My Own
Myself
Music
" I'd like to say things are bound to get better, but I don't really believe it. "
George Michael
Get
Better
Believe
" I left school at 17 and was a star by the time I was 18 - in certain parts of the world anyway. "
George Michael
Star
Anyway
Left
" 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. "
George Michael
Trying
Early
Freedom
" I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do. "
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Up
Somebody
Got
" I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years. "
George Michael
Texan
Years
Anti-American
" I'm just not security-minded. "
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Just
" I used to believe that George Michael was a total actor. It was self-defeating, because it made me also feel fraudulent. "
George Michael
Actor
Because
Believe
" I mean, I've done different things at different times that I shouldn't have done, once or twice, you know. "
George Michael
Twice
Know
Done
" 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. "
George Michael
Think
Kind
Career
" I am a political person, though not with a big P. "
George Michael
Big
I Am
Person
" I went to prison, I paid my bill. "
George Michael
Prison
Paid
Bill
" I've achieved what every artist wants, which is that some of their work will outlive them. "
George Michael
Some
Will
Work
" 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. "
George Michael
Know
Garden
Music
" I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man. "
George Michael
Believe
Gifts
God
" Deep down, my ego always thought that I would outlast a lot of people that I was competing against. "
George Michael
Thought
Always
People
" With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition. "
George Michael
Pop
Stars
Well
" Of course, I want to sell this record - there's no point making it otherwise. "
George Michael
Sell
Making
No Point
" It's important to me that I should be free to express myself. "
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Should
Free
Important
" I knew, regardless of anything else, singing in front of an orchestra was going to be inspirational. It would feed me. "
George Michael
Inspirational
Singing
Orchestra
" My ego is sated. "
George Michael
Ego
" 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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People
Place
World
" 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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Own
People
Stars
" 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 Michael
Someone
You
Hurt