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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I ain't never nervous. Never nervous.
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When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.
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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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Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.
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If you've got five or six cloud apps, do you want a different user ID and password for each one? No.
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The most amazing thing is being onstage and watching the audience sing every song lyric for lyric.
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I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.
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I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.
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Every woman must live by some sense of victory over disappointments, and Olympias was not the sort of woman to find compensation in her own powers of self-control and endurance.
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I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.
