Peter Benchley Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
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I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.
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I wanted to greet people in Telugu, so I asked someone how to say 'How are you' in Telugu. In fact, I instructed my entire staff to speak to me only in Telugu. So, there were times when I would ask them to translate certain words for me in Hindi, but the effort paid off.
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Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.
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I was familiar with 'Addicted' for a long time, even prior to the movie, way before it got the greenlight. And when it finally got the greenlight, I was very happy to be a part of it.
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In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
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I love New York. I'm working on Broadway, and it's a great way for me to get my feet wet in acting and a great way to season yourself as a performer.
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I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.
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Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.
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I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.
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Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
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Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.
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Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
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I was very fortunate to grow up with parents who love to travel, so I traveled from a young age. My dad's a heart surgeon and goes to conferences all over the world. By the time I was seven, I traveled outside the country for the first time. We went to Paris. The next year, we went to London, and then Brussels.
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The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
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It's because Gandhi believed in villages and because the British ruled from the cities; therefore, Nehru thought of New Delhi as an un-Indian city.
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I've ceased making predictions on things because we'll see how they turn out.
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I'm not here to hurt anyone or harm anyone.
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Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst.
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I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
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I love Paris - it's one of my favorite cities - and so to shoot a video in Paris was a dream come true.
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I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.
