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"The kids put you on a pedestal. I didn't like it."
Kids
"I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide."
Years
"Well, I went to school with Jan and Dean, Ryan O'Neal, some of the Beach Boys we all use to party together."
Beach
"I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships."
Childhood
"I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties."
Thought
"It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection."
Life
"Acid wasn't getting a whole lot of bad press at the time, and as I saw the whole bad-press thing happen, I became aware that the government had done a whole lie on all the other benign drugs as well. It became clear to me that the government wanted no real drug education."
Education
"Marijuana. Boy, I thought that was just terrible. How could this great man do this to his life?"
Life
"Yes, there was nothing else to do to get you high. I mean, there was, but white kids didn't hear about it."
Kids
"A lot of my friends were fooling around with drugs then."
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"If Frank and The Beach Boys got together and did a Super Session album, it would be a gas."
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"Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water."
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"I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach."
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"We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month."
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"I was in Florida with Burt Stern, the photographer who shot Marilyn Monroe on the beach with a sweater, and we smoked a joint. The bathing suit kept coming off in the water, and I just ripped it off. I was very comfortable being naked."
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"If I'm on location on some island, we usually get up at four in the morning to set up. By seven thirty, we're on the beach working until noon, then we rest. It's not exactly a vacation."
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"You'll never find your gold on a sandy beach."
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"We have our little restaurants, and there's a beautiful beach that we go to in the summer and fall. We tend to have a lot of get-togethers, and if it's at my house, we order pizza because I can't cook."
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"To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude."
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"You know, The Beach Boys' image is kinda like a group Doris Day, you know what I mean?"
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