Peter Benchley Quotes
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Ideas for stories come to me based on my life, so who knows? If somebody sends me to become an astronaut, that's what I'll end up writing.
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Fascinations breeds preparedness, and preparedness, survival.
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I didn't invent the fear of sharks; it's as old as mankind, and that - to take that responsibility would mean that Mario Puzo should take the blame for the Mafia.
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We should be afraid of sharks half as much as sharks should be afraid of us.
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I dive as much as I can.
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It is not that I don't have a fear of sharks, it is that I have a respect for them, so that I know any more than if I were to go into the jungle, I would have a fear of tigers, that I would try to lower the odds.
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I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.
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It's hard to care deeply for something that might turn on you and eat you.
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In a deeply tribal sense, we love our monsters, and I think that is the key to it right there. It is monsters; it is learning about them: it is both thrill and safety. You can think of them without being desperately afraid because they are not going to come into your living room and eat you. That is 'Jaws.'
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Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.
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I'm a babe in the woods when it comes to the Internet.