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" I want to love. I want to enjoy life. "

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" It's always nice to have people love you, but I'd just like to be judged fairly. "

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" I found myself very lost after 'The Partridge Family,' and I lost my dad and I lost my manager, and I lived in a bubble, and it took me 15 years to get through that and a lot of psychotherapy, and I'm laughing about it now! "

" 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.' "

" There were times when I was a joke, but talent survives. "

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