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A good poem brims with reflected beauty and even a bracing, beautiful ugliness. At the center of our lives, in the midst of the busyness and the forgetting, is a story that makes sense when everything extraneous has been taken away.


David Whyte

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DAVID CASSIDY My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recolle...
DAVID CASSIDY Once they began doing 'Celebrity Apprentice,' apparently the audience wasn't that keen o...
DAVID CASSIDY My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.
DAVID CASSIDY I've always had a special relationship with the U.K. fans, because even when I wasn't workin...
DAVID CASSIDY My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I.
DAVID CASSIDY I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows.
DAVID CASSIDY I don't need to remind myself of the trophies. I know what I accomplished.
DAVID CASSIDY What I want is credibility I got as a songwriter and actor and doing 'Blood Brothers' on Bro...
DAVID CASSIDY In the '80s, it was difficult and frustrating to appear in the theater and TV again, even though...
DAVID CASSIDY All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me.
DAVID CASSIDY I wasn't ever a bad guy, and I was never arrested or anything like that, but I was a wild boy in...
DAVID CASSIDY I saw Jimi Hendrix - it must have been four times. And he was incomparable, and his legend lives on.
DAVID CASSIDY Acting was absolutely my first focus. I graduated high school in L.A., and two weeks afterwards, I m...
DAVID CASSIDY I've really sensed that people have an affection for me.
DAVID CASSIDY I've done an enormous amount of bringing light into people's lives, and I'm very proud o...
DAVID CASSIDY I bought my first horse when I was 15. I always loved racing and I started studying about breeding a...
DAVID CASSIDY I've always had a love for horses since I was really young. When I was 5 years old, the only thi...
DAVID CASSIDY My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me.
DAVID CASSIDY In a very short period of time, actors can become kind of relevant and hot.
DAVID CASSIDY I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw s...
DAVID CASSIDY I found myself very lost after 'The Partridge Family,' and I lost my dad and I lost my manag...
DAVID CASSIDY I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five yea...
DAVID CASSIDY It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes.
DAVID CASSIDY We live in a world of strange priorities, where Kim Kardashian buying a Lamborghini creates internat...
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