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" My life has flourished in so many ways both personally and professionally that I can't ask for a better life. "
David Cassidy
Life
Better
Better Life
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" I just want to continue to produce good work. I don't want to do junk. "
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Just
Good Work
Good
" I was always really proud of the fact that I had a very positive influence as a role model. "
David Cassidy
Influence
Role Model
Proud
" The difference now is that the paparazzi get paid fortunes. That's what motivates people; it's about the money, sadly, at anyone's expense. "
David Cassidy
People
Difference
Now
" Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob,' okay? It's as if they were constantly discussing your second year of college. I'm not back there anymore. I'm living in the present. "
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Back
Teen
Present
" I've really sensed that people have an affection for me. "
David Cassidy
People
Me
Affection
" I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies. "
David Cassidy
Life
Image
Great
" 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.' "
David Cassidy
Racing
Reading
Family
" 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. "
David Cassidy
Famous
Place
People
" I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers. "
David Cassidy
Work
Good
Musicians
" 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. "
David Cassidy
Culture
Know
Love
" All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and distance myself from it. "
David Cassidy
Myself
Day
World
" 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. "
David Cassidy
Light
Easy
People
" I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for me. "
David Cassidy
Me
Son
Never
" Until I really dealt with a lot of the demons in my life - the fear and self-doubt and unresolved issues with my old man - I could never feel fulfilled and happy. I would wake up in the morning and feel bad. "
David Cassidy
My Life
Fear
Man
" 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. "
David Cassidy
City
New York
Job
" Once they began doing 'Celebrity Apprentice,' apparently the audience wasn't that keen on the ordinary apprentice. That is probably the best indictment with our fascination with celebrity in our culture, which drives me crazy. "
David Cassidy
Culture
Crazy
Doing
" If you're not a daydreamer, you haven't got any imagination. "
David Cassidy
You
Got
Daydreamer
" If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your job. You've evoked something. "
David Cassidy
You
People
Done
" I wouldn't want to play anything bigger than 10,000 again. I think it's too much, and you lose touch. "
David Cassidy
Lose
You
Want
" Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits. "
David Cassidy
Never
Hits
Doing
" Learning how to be a good parent was easy in the end because I'd basically had the What Not To Do manual. "
David Cassidy
End
How
Learning
" It's amazing what happens to your body as you get a little older. "
David Cassidy
Your Body
Older
Amazing
" When I was 11, I moved to Los Angeles to live with my father and stepmother and my half brothers. I became really close to my stepmother, and I am still very close to my brothers. My stepmother is the actress Shirley Jones, who was in 'The Partridge Family' alongside me, so we worked together for years. "
David Cassidy
I Am
Live
Together
" It's always nice to have people love you, but I'd just like to be judged fairly. "
David Cassidy
Nice
People
You
" Thoroughbred racing is really my true passion. I'm living my dream. "
David Cassidy
Dream
Racing
True
" My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I. "
David Cassidy
He
Dad
Mom
" What I want is credibility I got as a songwriter and actor and doing 'Blood Brothers' on Broadway with my brother Shaun. "
David Cassidy
Credibility
Want
Doing
" It was amazing for me growing up in the musical decade of the '60s. I saw The Beatles on television and went out and bought an electric guitar. "
David Cassidy
Growing
Me
Guitar
" I didn't end up some sad, tragic guy singing in a lounge somewhere. I never went out and took big money for nostalgia and became like an oldies act. "
David Cassidy
Big
Singing
Nostalgia
" 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. "
David Cassidy
Touching
Proud
Light