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" I got hate letters from girls all over America because I wouldn't go to the prom with them. "
Davy Jones
America
Go
Over
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" I'm well in touch with my family, my children. I keep them on my answer phone, so if I want to hear one of their voices, all I have to do is punch it up and it will be there. "
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" I know a lot of people in the retirement village that I have a house in in Florida that are on the Internet and are reading the paper on the Internet, and they're communicating on the Internet. "
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" I read a whole bunch of bits and pieces over the years, obviously from the fan magazines and the rest of the stuff, and I just wanted to give a little more insight into what's happening in my personal life. "
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" I'm so reluctant to do newspaper interviews because it's so misleading how they interpret what you say. "
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" It's a crying shame we don't play more parks and fairs. I would love to go right to the Chamber of Commerce or whoever they are, so that we could get involved in a different way. "
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" In the office, the mail that came in was always 10 to 1 for me. "
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" We wanted to interview people on the show, do variety, get the artists, the guests involved with us in our group. They wanted to keep the four guys together. We wanted to change the format. "
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" The Monkees changed my life but ruined my acting career. "
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" People always expect you to be jumping out of a Rolls Royce and being in the papers for drunk and disorderly or sleeping around. "
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" I'm really a clean-cut kid. "
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" It used to be 65 when you went into retirement. Before that, when you got into your 50s, you were getting older. "
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" And actually, about three weeks ago, Micky, Peter and I were in Vegas at the MGM Grand. And we did about 12 shows in seven days. It was quite an experience. "
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" As far as groupies, I never saw any of them. "
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" Around the property I have here, I'm about to put an all weather race track. I'm about to build stables. I'm about to ship over a couple of my thoroughbreds from England. "
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" America changed my life, but I still think of home and working in Scotland was an important part of that. "
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" I own property in a quiet little town of Pennsylvania. "
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