Friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.


David Nicholls

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DAVID BYRNE
Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away f...
DAVID BYRNE
Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.
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...
DAVID CASSIDY
I hitched up to Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, you know? And I was very much politically alig...
DAVID CASSIDY
Contrary to public opinion and the image people have of me, I grew up in a very lower-middle-class, ...
DAVID CASSIDY
It was amazing for me growing up in the musical decade of the '60s. I saw The Beatles on televis...
DAVID CASSIDY
Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits.
DAVID CASSIDY
I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for...
DAVID CASSIDY
I was very wary of repeating my father's behaviour and did everything not to act like he did.
DAVID CASSIDY
Most definitely, my dad was my biggest influence.
DAVID CASSIDY
My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts.
DAVID CASSIDY
The television and film business has never really been kind or compassionate, in general.
DAVID CASSIDY
It's amazing what happens to your body as you get a little older.
DAVID CASSIDY
I didn't end up some sad, tragic guy singing in a lounge somewhere. I never went out and took bi...
DAVID CASSIDY
Nobody likes to be rejected, you know?
DAVID CASSIDY
I nearly died twice after I replaced Michael Crawford in 'EFX.'
DAVID CASSIDY
I work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view.
DAVID CASSIDY
I don't listen to the news or read newspapers. I don't know what's going on in this worl...
DAVID CASSIDY
You cannot make a teenage idol.
DAVID CASSIDY
It's a difficult journey when you're going through a divorce, is it not, for anyone?
DAVID CASSIDY
Thoroughbred racing is really my true passion. I'm living my dream.
DAVID CASSIDY
I understand the rock star deal having been one and still going out strapping my guitar on and perfo...
DAVID CASSIDY
If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was i...
DAVID CASSIDY
I'm never going to retire and say, 'This is it. This is my last show.' I will not go on ...
DAVID CASSIDY
I was silver-white by the time I was 35, but having grey hair makes me look washed out. My wife and ...
DAVID CASSIDY
I look fine. I've had no surgery apart from an operation I had decades ago to remove the fat und...
DAVID CASSIDY
I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.
DAVID CASSIDY
All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger...
DAVID BOWIE
I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am.
DAVID CASSIDY