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Fascinations breeds preparedness, and preparedness, survival.

~Peter Benchley

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

~Peter Benchley

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Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.

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

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Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.

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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.

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

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There was a minor burst of macho nuttiness after 'Jaws' came out, in which people would go off in shark tournaments and come back holding the bloody heads of these animals and say, 'Look what I did.' But they've been doing that for hundreds of thousands of years anyway.

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Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: May 8th, 1940

Died: February 11th, 2006

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