Gary Kemp Quotes

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• I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.

  Gary Kemp

  Thinking, People, Sometimes

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• My instinct is to be very controlling.

  Gary Kemp

  Instinct

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• I am a metrosexual and into male grooming - I moisturise, I exfoliate.

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  Males, Metrosexuals, Grooming

  "What I see in the mirror" by Gary Kemp, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2012.

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• Road cycling, especially up mountains. It's the heady mixture of endorphins and aesthetics that I love. My wife does it too, and being with her in extreme but beautiful conditions adds to the experience and our relationship.

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  Beautiful, Cycling, Wife

  "Spandau Ballet Gary Kemp: Letting go of bad experiences and having OCD". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.

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  Dad, Thinking, Important

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• I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.

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  Band, Hell, Stressful

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• Kevin Costner told me that 'True' was his and his wife's song. I'm not sure if that's a good thing because they split up soon after.

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  Song, Wife, Splits

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Love is family, support, priority, and understanding.

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  Love Is, Support, Priorities

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• I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.

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  Musician, Actors, Pops

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• I think my younger self would be more amazed to know I was doing an interview for 'The Spectator.

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  Thinking, Self, Would Be

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• We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.

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  Stars, Dad, Book

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• Being onstage is a way of harnessing your vulnerability and using the adrenaline to be creative. It's a very vulnerable place to be - technically, emotionally, and physically - but I love it.

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  Creative, Way, Vulnerable

  "Spandau Ballet Gary Kemp: Letting go of bad experiences and having OCD". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.

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  Ideas, Acting, Tools

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a working-class thing - my dad was a printer, but he wore a tie most days. The ungroomed look belongs more to the middle classes.

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  Dad, Thinking, Class

  "What I see in the mirror" by Gary Kemp, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2012.

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• Your life is the same wherever you go.

  Gary Kemp

  Umpires, Life Is

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• Do not dehumanize others.

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• For 24 hours a day, for 10 years, all I thought about was being in a band. That's all I did. I had no other social life. I don't want my life to be like that now. I've spent the past 10 years having a real life as well. But Spandau Ballet is such a difficult shadow to outrun.

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  Real, Past, Years

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• I'm an atheist. I don't 'believe' at all.

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  Atheist, Believe, Don't Believe

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• Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.

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  Lying, Reading, May

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• My life is routine-obsessed. I'm OCD, and if I'm not at home, I always get up early and exercise. I don't crash and burn at night, not these days, so early-ish to bed. At home, I have three small boys who bring me down to earth with school runs and endless meals.

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  Running, School, Home

  "Spandau Ballet Gary Kemp: Letting go of bad experiences and having OCD". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of glam rock, against progressive rock. Music had become very staid and it was about the playing and people obsessed. Eric Clapton was God and we needed an enema within the art form, and punk did do that.

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  Art, Rocks, Glam Rock

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Why do I find it hard to write the next line?

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  Writing, Lines, Next

  "True". Song by Gary Kemp, April 14, 1983.

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• It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it.

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  Art, Would Be, Shame

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• Maybe I've got to admit that what I did here was enough. I can make some more films. Maybe I'll direct a film. Maybe I'll have my musical put on stage. But nothing, really, to be absolutely honest, competes with making a very successful pop band for 10 years of my life.

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  Successful, Years, Musical

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• The thought of going on tour with people like Toyah Wilcox is just appalling. I'm certainly not tempted.

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  People, Tempted

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