Ridley Pearson Quotes

The boys had asked why, if it acted slowly, was it called quicksand. The Mollusks had replied that, as far as they were concerned, most English names for things were silly. The word that they used for quicksand was a deep grunt that translated roughly to "uh-oh.

Ridley Pearson

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• Silly
• Concerned
• Grunt
• Quicksand
• Mollusks

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• It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

  

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• I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

  

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• Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!

  

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• I'm sure in the history of Harvard, and the history of most schools, there's been some pretty crazy parties that I'm not even sure you could even capture on film how silly and ridiculous they were.

  

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• I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.

  

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• My friends and I often film videos when we get together and hang out, and they're usually just silly situational videos just for our own amusement.

  

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• Anybody who says they don't want to be seen on a show which has millions of people watching it at one time when they're in the business of selling records is a bit silly.

  

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• I was having a bad day, and my friend said, 'Go wash your hair.' I thought it was really silly - but it made me feel so much better. It might be a small thing, but it works. Washing it off and starting over.

  

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• I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly.

  

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• I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.

  

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• I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, 'Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts.'

  

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• When I was 18, I drove from New York to California to be a movie star. Not an actor, mind you, but a movie star. Have you ever heard of anything so silly?

  

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• To lave in the wave,Majestic and chilly,Tomorrow I crave;But today it is silly.It is pleasant to look at the ocean;Tomorrow, perhaps, I shall swim in it.

  

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• I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not going to lie down and get myself killed. I was going to get out of it.

  

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• For some reason, they always gave me a fat suit in high-school productions. If there was a character who needed to be robust, they gave me a fat suit, and I put on a silly voice.

  

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• Investing is a business where you can look very silly for a long period of time before you are proven right.

  

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• The gym was my only refuge. I could put music on and dance around with my girlfriends and be silly.

  

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• I have family members who live in Africa. Because of the family that lives there, I know what is happening in these countries, and it seems so silly to me that diseases like malaria are so prevalent when they are entirely preventable. Yet children are still dying every 35 seconds.

  

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• I don't get embarrassed easily, and I do silly things all the time!

  

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• Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera.

  

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• Life is funny. Things change, people change, but you will always be you, so stay true to yourself and never sacrifice who you are for anyone.

  

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• My college roommate gave me her copy of 'Lord of the Rings,' and I read that probably five or six times - not because I think it's the greatest thing ever written, though some people certainly think it is - but the world he creates is so vivid. So real that he designed its own languages, history and mythology.

  

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• The boys had asked why, if it acted slowly, was it called quicksand. The Mollusks had replied that, as far as they were concerned, most English names for things were silly. The word that they used for quicksand was a deep grunt that translated roughly to "uh-oh.

  

  Ridley Pearson
  • Boys
  • Silly
  • Concerned