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I still run into people who say to me, 'What is all this governance stuff? It just gets in the way,'


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DAVID BYRNE I like time off. I'm not a workaholic.
DAVID THEWLIS I've had an awful lot of good fortune.
DAVID CASSIDY Every day is a blessing - not to get too schmaltzy, but, really, it is.
DAVID CASSIDY What happened to me during the last couple of years of 'The Partridge Family' was I became s...
DAVID CASSIDY There were times when I was a joke, but talent survives.
DAVID CASSIDY You can't be 24 again; you can't be new when you're 40 years old.
DAVID CASSIDY Most people view success by the results, and I don't.
DAVID CASSIDY I think of my career as something apart from myself.
DAVID CASSIDY You know, many people who become famous and enjoy great success when they're young disappear aft...
DAVID CASSIDY I wouldn't want to play anything bigger than 10,000 again. I think it's too much, and you lo...
DAVID CASSIDY Let me tell you, 10,000 is an intimate room. Believe me. I want to be able to connect to everybody i...
DAVID CASSIDY When you cut your life into a film - 90-some minutes of film - you end up taking snapshots and vigne...
DAVID CASSIDY Until I really dealt with a lot of the demons in my life - the fear and self-doubt and unresolved is...
DAVID CASSIDY I gave up my whole life to my career.
DAVID CASSIDY Just getting your name in the papers and having people talk about you is not always a good thing.
DAVID CASSIDY There's nothing wrong with becoming a role model, nothing wrong with inspiring people to become ...
DAVID CASSIDY It's always nice to have people love you, but I'd just like to be judged fairly.
DAVID CASSIDY It wasn't until later when people became aware of my writing that I would hear begrudgingly, ...
DAVID CASSIDY If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your ...
DAVID CASSIDY Anybody who carries the albatross of that teen-idol thing - well, people tend to look and say: '...
DAVID CASSIDY I don't want to end up being some joke on a bad TV series.
DAVID CASSIDY I just want to continue to produce good work. I don't want to do junk.
DAVID CASSIDY Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob,' okay? It's as if they we...
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