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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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"I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach."
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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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"If Frank and The Beach Boys got together and did a Super Session album, it would be a gas."
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"I always have the most fun on the Fourth of July. You don't have to exchange any gifts. You just go to the beach and watch fireworks. It's always fun."
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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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"One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach."
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"Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water."
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"Back in the old days, we were often compared to Led Zeppelin. If we did something with harmony, it was the Beach Hoys. Something heavy was Led Zeppelin."
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"On the weekends, I would go down and play these clubs in Key West or West Palm Beach or surrounding areas of Florida and then I'd go back to school for the week."
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"Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists."
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"There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day."
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"I wanted to go to regular high school - it looked like a lot of fun."
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"A lot of my friends were fooling around with drugs then."
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"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."
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"Marijuana. Boy, I thought that was just terrible. How could this great man do this to his life?"
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"My mom was a Democrat and I was scared to death that she was gonna blow it. First I was going to hell with Monroe, and now to Republican hell with Nixon."
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"Yes, there was nothing else to do to get you high. I mean, there was, but white kids didn't hear about it."
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"I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships."
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"I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties."
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