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" It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes. "
David Cassidy
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" Acting was absolutely my first focus. I graduated high school in L.A., and two weeks afterwards, I moved to New York City, and I got a job in a mail room, and I got an agent, doing what actors do, with head shots and all the rest of it. "
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" I saw Jimi Hendrix - it must have been four times. And he was incomparable, and his legend lives on. "
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" It is difficult to be famous and that successful where you can't even walk down the street without people chasing you, and having people build monuments to you and worshiping you - all that stuff - but I never took that to a place where I believed it. I saw it as being temporary and a phase. "
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" I work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view. "
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" I've had a passion for horses since I was very young - I used to sit on the floor in front of the races on television and pretend to be a jockey - and I first began reading the racing form on the set of 'The Partridge Family.' "
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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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" I think of my career as something apart from myself. "
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" Kids need role models, whether it's baseball players, actors or musicians: people to bring a little positive light into their hearts and minds. We need to be a little kinder to those people because it's not easy being that role model, looked upon as something we are all incapable of being - too perfect. "
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" If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your job. You've evoked something. "
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" I just want to continue to produce good work. I don't want to do junk. "
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" 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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