"No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for, worldwide, sharks are much more the oppressed than the oppressors."

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Source : Peter Benchley (1995). “Ocean planet: writings and images of the sea”, ABRAMS

Peter Benchley

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“The England team must always be respected. They always fight to the end.”
“If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book.”
“Crash Holly's so short, you can see his feet on his driver's licence photo.”
“I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.”
“Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by them. Yet if I were asked to name the most important items in a writer's make-up, the things that shape his material and rush him along the road he wants to go. I would only warn him to look to his zest, see to his gusto.”
“Life isn't perfect. It's not supposed to be. We all make mistakes. You bash your head against the wall and you get hurt, but you walk away and make the best of it. And that's what makes it life, Brenna, not perfection. You'll never find happiness if you only expect to find a perfect life. Happiness is something we reach for while we try to learn from our disappointments.”

Source : Karen White (2007). “Learning to Breathe”, p.255, Penguin
“I enjoy my fun time and everything like that but I love what I do”
“It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened”

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