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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Most of the time I spend looking for the 25th hour in the day, the ninth day in the week, the 32nd day in the month and the 367th, eighth or 70th day in the year because I feel I have a very rich life.
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Scientists in different disciplines don't speak the same language. They publish in different journals. It's like the United Nations: You come together, but no one speaks the same language, so you need some translators.
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Most people view success by the results, and I don't.
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They handled it very badly. It was disappointing and very humiliating. John York was very rude. He never consulted with me over what he said to the press.
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Cinderella is not only an iconic character when it comes to beauty, grace and fairytale love, but also shoes.
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Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.
