Here are some quotes (from the A&E Biography) from the Cassidy brothers:
Here are some quotes (from the A&E Biography) from the Cassidy brothers:
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| "I wanted to hate her. But the instant that I met her, I got the essence of her. She's a very warm, open, sweet, good human being. She couldn't have thawed, from me, the coldness and ice any more than she did. Even though she wasn't my mother I could be very open and we could speak and became very close friends from it. She was a very good role model for me, watching the way she dealt with people on the set and watching the way people revered her." | "My mother was really trying to hang on to Smithton, Pennsylvania. She wanted to keep the small town that she came from in our house. And she wanted to give us the values that she had learned as a child. She was the breadwinner in our house for a number of years, and yet I always felt that we were the priority. She can be wickedly funny when she wants to be, if she feels like she's in safe company, and when she feels she doesn't have to be 'Shirley Jones' anymore." |
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| "She was as much a normal Mom as there was. I never got the feeling that my Mom wasn't going to be at the PTA meeting or wasn't going to make the Little League game. She has a tremendous ability to prioritize and her first priority, foremost was her family. She is incredibly supportive. She has seen everything I have ever done, which is amazing." | "My Mother was always very real. She didn't live in an imaginary world after she finished a role. She still has so much to offer as a person. I hope she surrounds herself with people that support her, that love her, and that she can have a relationship with her family where there is harmony." |