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Peter Benchley Quotes

It's hard to care deeply for something that might turn on you and eat you.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Care You Hard Eat Turn Something

I don't like being called 'macho.' Macho basically means stupid and a real Italian man is not macho, he's smart. That's smart in both senses: elegant and clever.

Man Smart Stupid Clever Real Senses

A lot of gay-themed films are terrible. And mainstream audiences and the press aren't interested, understandably.

Terrible Press Interested Audiences

As NBA coach, people get on you. But politics, maybe even more so at the local level, is nasty on a very personal level. I have a thick skin, but I don't want to deal with it.

Politics People You Skin Personal

I own a fart CD. It has, I believe, over 100 fart sounds. A lovely variety, from the up-close and personal to the more experimental and dissonant. Some people prefer to listen to Bach when they go to sleep... not me.

Sleep People Me Believe Go Personal

Paris's neighborhoods, the arrondissements, are organized like a twist. They spiral from the river like toilet water flushing in reverse and erupting out of the bowl - a corkscrew or what have you, a flattened pig's tail, a whorling braid notched one to 20.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Water River You Pig Paris Out

I'm really boring. I think about cooking all the time. I have a little book, so when I go out or see something, I jot it down and try to include it in a recipe or do a variation of it. I even have a notepad by my bed, which is usually saying we're running out of mango chutney.

Time Cooking Book Saying Think Down

All you can do is be your best self. I've always felt that I had to be that much more aware of how I present myself. I'm representing more than just me. I think every person should think that way.

Myself Best Me Think Self Present

Most of us seem to be buried under our own possessions, and it seems to be getting worse.

Possessions Own Seem Us Seems Worse

I think, the 'Van Dyke Show' and 'Mary Poppins' are two of the best periods of my life. I had so much fun, I didn't want it to end.

Life Best Fun Think End My Life

Everything in Venice is just a little bit creepy, as much as it's beautiful.

Christopher Moore

Beautiful Everything Venice Little

I always felt like reality was a bizarre place, and everybody was really good at being normal, and I didn't know how to do it.

Good Reality Place Know Always Like

Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.

Baseball Living Playing License Like

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