Peter Benchley Quotes

There was a minor burst of macho nuttiness after 'Jaws' came out, in which people would go off in shark tournaments and come back holding the bloody heads of these animals and say, 'Look what I did.' But they've been doing that for hundreds of thousands of years anyway.

Peter Benchley

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 8, 1940 - February 11, 2006

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Really, what you should tell a novelist is, 'Keep going until you finish the draft. Don't show it to anyone.'

Andrew Sean Greer

Keep GoingYouFinishTellGoing

If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.

Andrew Young

MeBeenWantedOutspokenJimmy

I took a theater class in college and loved it.

Matt Czuchry

CollegeLovedClassTheaterTook

We'd have to suck away at oxygen canisters between songs just so that we could keep playing.

Michael Hutchence

PlayingAwayKeepSuckJustOxygen

My aunt put my cousins into a children's modelling agency, then my mum did it with us. Me and my sister got a few TV adverts, which was good pocket money. A director saw photos of me and asked me to do a short film.

Sullivan Stapleton

GoodChildrenMoneyMeSisterShort

The owners don't win by having a lockout. Shutting down your business is not good for anybody and it's certainly not good for the players, it's certainly not good for the fans. And that's most important to us.

Roger Goodell

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Less intelligence capacity equals less safety.

Mike Pompeo

IntelligenceSafetyCapacityLess

One of the fun things as an actor is to really spread your wings as wide as possible and do a variety of roles. I've been really lucky in that sense, I think.

Michiel Huisman

FunThinkWingsActorPossible

The current constitutional law places the president of the republic in an embarrassing situation.

Jose Eduardo dos Santos

LawSituationPlacesPresident

More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had.

Jon Stewart

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There's something about the superheroes and the idea behind their relationship with humans, whether it's a metaphor for the better part of ourselves, or the more flawed part of ourselves. So it seems to really be our own pop-culture version of Greek mythology.

Clark Gregg

RelationshipBetterMoreOwnSeems

A lot of people thought that it was a foolish step to move to television. But for me, it is all about the creative satisfaction I get.

Ashish Sharma

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