Peter Benchley Quotes
If you're young and wild, you tend to believe your clippings. One day you're Hemingway. The next day you're nothing.
Quotes to Explore
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I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.
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Love is a strange emotion. It is ever evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two different things. Very few people are lucky enough to experience the two emotions simultaneously.
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
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In tight quarters, it's important to choose small-scale items.
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'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.
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'OLTL' has now allowed me to sing through the character as Blair. If you've followed my 20-some-odd-year career, you know I am a singer.
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It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
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I constantly write about my safety walking to and from school, and then I would come home at night, and I would cut on the TV, and I would watch a show like 'The Wonder Years,' or I would watch, you know, some other show like 'Family Ties.'
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
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Nowadays you don't need to be a senator or a CEO or a celebrity to have a voice in the media, and if you happen to be a senator, a CEO or a celebrity, you have a thousand people each with their own respective audiences to hold you accountable.
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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
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I don't go to enough movies.
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I have never planned things in life. I believe in living life or doing things to the moment.
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If you're young and wild, you tend to believe your clippings. One day you're Hemingway. The next day you're nothing.
