Peter Benchley Quotes
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I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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I am the original 'Material Girl.'
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It's easier to go from theatre to film than the other way round. In film you're absolutely loved and cossetted and cared for. In film your director makes your performance. In theatre you're carrying it all.
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It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.
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Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.
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Fame creeps up on you.
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Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao was one of the worst boxing matches I've ever seen, but millions of people watched it because of the personalities involved.
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I believe in free trade. I don't support regulating trade prices between different regions. Our point of view is we don't want trade barriers between different countries.
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I've got the sort of personality that requires me to find some sort of release, and for me, it's performing.
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I think one of the reasons 'Gremlins' lasts and some other films don't is because I don't think the movie has a whole lot of dated things - sure, the cars, my hair, and few things here and there that date the movie - but it takes place in a sort of everytown, in a sorta non-specific time, and that gives the movie a timeless quality.
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I'm an athlete, so I'm very interested in making the sport as safe as possible - just for my own career longevity.
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The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.
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The Masters, while it has slowly gained equal importance as a major, isn't really the championship of anything.
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There's a real sense of camaraderie with sitcoms.
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There are great legends and great fighters in the history of Mexico, and there will be more to come.
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Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.
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I do like to play the darker characters; I don't really know why.
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No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness.
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God forbid that women have fantasies.
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My parents were quite strict; we couldn't just listen to whatever music we wanted. It was very much like they monitored what we listened to.
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Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides, precisely because of his mental incompetence, would not deserve such a punishment as Christianity promises him.
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We think we're saving time with microwaves, cell phones, beepers, computers and voice mail, but often these things help us create the illusion of getting somewhere - and they foster a chain of constant activity. We're really just squeezing extra activity into every minute that we gain.
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I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.
