Ridley Pearson quotes

What do you care more about? The kids or your hair? (Ridley Pearson)
If you don't believe in yourself, who will?' ~Maybeck.
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Be careful what you wear to bed, because you never know where you might wake up.
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He likes you, too." Finn repeated. "And don't tell me to shut up." "Shut up!" -Kingdom Keepers, Shell Game.
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Always trust computer games.
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Especially with four insanely angry, sword-carrying pirates bearing down on you, followed closely by an alien with a genetic malfunction that posed like Elvis Presley and looked slightly like a cross between a koala and a cuddly dog.
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Being right wasn't nearly as important as doing right.
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Who's Chernabog?" Grumbled Maybeck. Philby answered,"Only the most powerful villian Walt Disney ever created.
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I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.
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I'm about to read Scott Turow's 'Innocent.' I've been hungry for this book since he first told me it was in the works. I'm a serious Turow fan.
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As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience. (Ridley Pearson)
I'm still only half the writer I hope I will be.
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My favorite novel is 'To Kill a Mockingbird' because of its broad sweep, its tackling of big issues in ways that even young minds can make sense of and for the heart of the characters, who span a wide range of ages. I reread it every year.
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I have been a storyteller from a very young age. Both my grandfathers took me on their laps when I was little and either recited epic poetry or told me firsthand adventure stories from their youths. It instilled in me a sense of wonder, and I've been wanting to pass along that same sense of wonder ever since.
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I doubt myself every day. I think most writers do. It's part of the process. It's in part what keeps you trying to write better each day, each book. If you were ever completely satisfied, I think you might just move on to something else. So you persevere. My bandmate, Stephen King, says successful writing is 5% talent, 5% luck, and 90% perseverance. You hit walls, reviews, dead-ends, editors, trends, and you wake up in the morning and keep going. You write for the joy of writing. It's the best job in the world. I never-never-take this opportunity for granted. I try to earn it every day I'm in the chair.
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When I do things I shouldn't do, my mother says I need a new pair of glasses -- that I should be be looking differently at the choices I make.
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True love isn't reserved for weddings and ceremonies. It's from the heart. That's all it has to be. All it ever is.
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