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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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
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I was 17 when I decided to write stories as big as cathedrals, overflowing with the kind of memorable and audacious characters Walker Percy, Ernest Hemingway and Saul Bellow created.
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I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
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It had been his experience that the worst cynics all started out as idealists.
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I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day.
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Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.
