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Peter Benchley Quotes

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Me Think Single Fiction Influences

Sometimes people look to others for answers they can find within themselves. I don't really want the responsibility of being the guy they look to.

Responsibility People Look Find Want

This game is something Australians really look forward to.

Game Forward Look Something Really

Stay away from screens, especially those LED screens. Those blue-light emitting devices fool your brain into thinking that it's still daytime, even though it's night-time and you want to get to sleep.

Fool Sleep Brain Thinking You Want

There can be many different views of what Heaven is like, because Heaven is whatever makes each person eternally and fully happy.

Mattie Stepanek

Happy Heaven Person Whatever Because

I'm a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they're simpler for customers.

Plans Big Because Big Fan Customers

In the barbershop, there's democracy. You're a professor; you're an engineer; you're a garbage man, have at it. You got something to say, get down with it.

Michael Eric Dyson

Man Democracy You Down Say Garbage

I do lament how many investors focus on all the short-term sugar buzz of some marginal improvement in something - nothing history books are ever going to be written about. In many cases, these are quick and easy ways to make money.

Steve Jurvetson

History Improvement Money Focus Easy

When you visit a foreign city you are in it, but not of it, separated by a glass wall. Once, while a student, I was getting dressed in my ground-floor room when a family of Italians crossed the grass to watch, as if I were laid on for their amusement and instruction.

Family City You Wall Student Glass

My grandmother was the type of woman who always smiled and said, 'Treat people like you want to be treated, and life is so much easier.' My mom is the same way.

Life Woman People Mom Treat You

When you are having fun and creating something you love, it shows in the product. So when a woman is sifting through a rack of clothes, somehow that piece of clothing that you had so much fun designing speaks to her; she responds to it and buys it. I believe you can actually transfer that energy to material things as you're creating them.

Love Woman Fun Having Fun Energy

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.

Original Blueprint

The first piece of property that I bought was in Tuscany in 1973.

Miriam Margolyes

First Property Piece Bought

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