I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because... | Peter Benchley

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

- Peter Benchley

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I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me.

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Other quotes by Peter Benchley

Tides Care

Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.

- Peter Benchley

Man Will

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

- Peter Benchley

Writing Time Love

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

- Peter Benchley

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

- Peter Benchley

Years

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

- Peter Benchley

Hurt

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

- Peter Benchley

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