Peter Benchley Quotes
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The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
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Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!
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Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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Comedy is created when someone is trying very earnestly to do what he feels is the right thing to do at that moment.
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I would be concerned if any speech to Congress related any information that's new to the president of the United States.
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I find it easier to strike the ball with my instep across goal. But I've scored in loads of other ways, too.
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You have to defeat a great players aura more than his game.
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You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.
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MWA and The Author's Guild refused to accept me as a member.
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I remember being totally enamored with Sid Caesar.
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Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.
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In the face of excruciating pain and uncertainty, I never lost hope, and it never occurred to me to stop fighting - not ever.
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Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9.
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My feminist training was that this was your goal, to be a self-sufficient woman, but that is a miscalculation. It's just not the way we work. We work in dialogue with the community.
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There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.
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I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick.
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I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.
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What I need is courage, and this often fails me. And it is also a fact that since my disease, when I am in the fields I am overwhelmed by a feeling of loneliness to such a horrible extent that I shy away from going out. But this will change all the same as time goes on. Only when I stand a painting before my easel do I feel somewhat alive. Never mind, this is going to change too, for now my health is so good that I suppose the physical part of me will gain the victory.
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In France, the leader of Jacobinism perished on the guillotine; with us, the change of leadership was achieved by means of arrest and banishment. The technique of the process is gentler, but its essence is the same.
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Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.
