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Peter Benchley Quotes

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Love Time Discipline Solitude You

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

John Jay Chapman

Good Government Virtue Outcome

I always write back to people who are kind enough to write to me. Actually, I don't write - I recline on my red velvet sofa with my feet on the coffee table and dictate the letters to my eldest son.

Son Coffee Red People Me Feet

I'm not mad into raving, to be honest. If it's not music, I'm chilling. But most of the time, it's music.

Music Time Mad Honest Chilling Most

President Trump is, some ways, the personification of a new Bolshevism of the Right, where the ends justify the means and acceptable tactics include lies and smears and the exploitation of what Lenin called 'useful idiots.'

Simon Sebag Montefiore

New President Right Idiots Where

I think that the best part of music is when it comes from a real place and has an ability to kind of connect on a much larger scale. It no longer is a personal thing, it becomes everyone else's thing as well.

Music Best Think Place Personal

Obama and his staff's sheer disrespect for the presidency is probably causing the Gipper to spin in his grave.

Disrespect Presidency Spin Grave His

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

Life God Great Time Prayer Purpose

I love changing hair color. I love doing hair shape. I love the social aspect of salons. I love clients, and because of doing hair, I've heard so many life stories.

Jonathan Van Ness

Life Love Hair Color Doing Clients

I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.

Jonathan Frakes

Think Star Us Been I Think Very

We become what we do.

Chiang Kai-shek

I would prefer to be a little nervous, because when you stop being nervous is kind of when you stop caring.

Caring You Stop Nervous Kind Little

The people that become the biggest jokes are people who do not change. They stay the way they were in the past.

Change Past People Way Become Jokes

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