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Peter Benchley

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You're gonna need a bigger boat.


— Peter Benchley


#movie #movies

I dive as much as I can.


— Peter Benchley


#i #i can #much

I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.


— Peter Benchley


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I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.


— Peter Benchley


#guess #hopeful #i #optimist #pessimist

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


— Peter Benchley


#fiction #i #influences #me #non-fiction

I'm a babe in the woods when it comes to the Internet.


— Peter Benchley


#comes #i #internet #woods

I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.


— Peter Benchley


#creature #except #hurt #i #never

I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs.


— Peter Benchley


#dinosaurs #either #every #fascinated #i

Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.


— Peter Benchley


#fall #regularly #reputations #rise #tides

Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while.


— Peter Benchley


#attacked #been #close #creatures #enough






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However Universal Studios decided to break tradition by releasing the film with extensive television advertising. This 1976 novel is based on Benchley's chance meeting in Bermuda with diver Teddy Tucker while writing a story for National Geographic Magazine. Subsequent career
His reasonably successful second novel The Deep is about a honeymooning couple discovering two sunken treasures on the Bermuda reefs—17th century Spanish gold and a fortune in World War Two-era morphine—who are subsequently targeted by a drug syndicate.

Several more of his works were also adapted for cinema including The Deep and The Island.

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