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" I nearly died twice after I replaced Michael Crawford in 'EFX.' "
David Cassidy
Replaced
Twice
After
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" As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life. "
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" I had people sleeping in front of my home. I couldn't go anywhere. It confronted me from the moment I woke up. There would be 100 people at the lot where we shot 'The Partridge Family.' "
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" My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is being taken to see him in a matinee. "
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" Going through 'The Partridge Family,' I looked up to people like Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and all those guys. But as an actor playing a part, I had to sing what was right for the character and the show. "
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" When you have had the kind of fame I had, I was always hounded by the media and I lived a very isolated life. Now it's even more difficult. The world has changed dramatically. "
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" My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts. "
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Were
" I've really sensed that people have an affection for me. "
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" Let me tell you, 10,000 is an intimate room. Believe me. I want to be able to connect to everybody in the room, and you can't with a venue any bigger than that. "
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" I've done an enormous amount of bringing light into people's lives, and I'm very proud of that and touching and inspiring people. "
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Proud
Light
" I'm not saying that I won't tour again, but the chances are slim because my priorities are different now. "
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Saying
Different
" I gave up my whole life to my career. "
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Gave
Whole
Up
" Anybody who carries the albatross of that teen-idol thing - well, people tend to look and say: 'There he is again. It's Fabian.' It's a very tough thing. Everybody wants to discount your talent because you have become so... I don't know... a god, if you will. "
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God
Tough
Talent
" I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw some of the great talents of all time in the local area where I lived. "
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Great
High School
" It wasn't until later when people became aware of my writing that I would hear begrudgingly, 'You know, you really are a pretty good singer, I guess.' "
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People
You
Good
" I hitched up to Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, you know? And I was very much politically aligned with that whole mentality, the whole ideology of that generation, the music, the culture, the behavior. "
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Culture
Know
Love
" I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am. "
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I Am
Self-Centered
Read
" I wouldn't want to play anything bigger than 10,000 again. I think it's too much, and you lose touch. "
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Lose
You
Want
" Learning how to be a good parent was easy in the end because I'd basically had the What Not To Do manual. "
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End
How
Learning
" I was very wary of repeating my father's behaviour and did everything not to act like he did. "
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Repeating
Act
Everything
" My life has flourished in so many ways both personally and professionally that I can't ask for a better life. "
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Life
Better
Better Life
" The television and film business has never really been kind or compassionate, in general. "
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Business
Television
Never
" It's a difficult journey when you're going through a divorce, is it not, for anyone? "
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You
Journey
" I'm never going to retire and say, 'This is it. This is my last show.' I will not go on tour - I promised my wife and son no more than two weeks on the road. "
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Wife
Two
" In a very short period of time, actors can become kind of relevant and hot. "
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Relevant
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" Oh, yeah. I grew up in Southern California in the 1960's. It was very different. I was an only child as opposed to having siblings. My brothers all lived with my step-mom. I am very close to them, but we were not raised in the same house. "
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I Am
Lived
" I bought my first horse when I was 15. I always loved racing and I started studying about breeding and I've been doing it now for 30 years, so I have some credibility. "
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Loved
Studying
" When you cut your life into a film - 90-some minutes of film - you end up taking snapshots and vignettes of the highlights of it - marriage, divorce, death, success, fame, loss. The up and the down and the up again. "
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" I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows. "
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Shows
Acts
" If you're not a daydreamer, you haven't got any imagination. "
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You
Got
Daydreamer