David Cassidy Quotes
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I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
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I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.
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I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
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I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.
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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.
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When I first came in the business, I had a couple of close calls on planes going to London for shows. There was one time where the plane had to fly around until a storm ended, and then we started having a question about fuel, so we had to go through the storm. It was the worst thing that ever happened in my life. That really messed me up.
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I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.
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I admired anyone who could unsettle people.
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Patricia Nixon gave up a career to become a political wife. She rose to the pinnacle of glory and then fell to disgrace because of deeds over which she had neither control nor knowledge.
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I actually shoot. I enjoy target practice. I find it really zen. You focus on nothing but the target. You have to control your breathing. It's all part of my years in the military, where I was taught to become a marksman but also to respect my weapon.
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I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York and I needed money, so I started working full time as an editor.
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Perhaps it is the positive knowledge that humans now possess the means to destroy their whole planet, the fear that they have in this way themselves become the gods, dreadfully charged with their own continued existence, that has made comic-book and movie myth escapist.
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I was about to say, 'Avoid fame like the plague,' but you know, they can cure the plague with penicillin these days.
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I was going to be lynched. I had to go into hiding in the mountains for two weeks.
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It would be wonderful to have a guru; it would be like having a social worker or a personal trainer, not that people who had either of these necessarily appreciated the advice they received.
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I'm not going to sit around and be peace and love with somebody's boot on my neck.
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There are enough tears in any child's life; we certainly don't need to add to them in the name of entertainment.
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Honestly, you cannot go wrong with being yourself.
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Films have gotten leaner and leaner, cutting out all variations from the story line.
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Nobody likes to be rejected, you know?
