Spielberg certainly made the most superb movie; Peter was very pleased. But Peter kept telling people the book was fiction, it was a novel, and that he took no more responsibility for the fear of sharks than Mario Puzo took responsibility for the Mafia.


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Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.
WENDY DAVIS
We know that Texas is more than a state. Texas has always been a promise. The promise that where you...
WENDY DAVIS
I'm happy in Lululemon, with a glass of red wine, watching HGTV.
WENDY DAVIS
Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's e...
WENDY DAVIS
When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get t...
WENDY DAVIS
As a senator from the only true swing district in the Texas Senate, I've been targeted by the GO...
WENDY DAVIS
When I first put my hat in the ring, several very tried and true and loyal Democratic activists from...
WENDY DAVIS
We need to get away from labels. That's the way people talk in Washington, D.C. - through labels...
WENDY DAVIS
I always stand out by the voting lines on Election Day, and I can't tell you how many people say...
WENDY DAVIS
I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epi...
WENDY DAVIS
I'm a very competitive person. You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, eve...
WENDY DAVIS
I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard w...
WENDY DAVIS
I hope telling the story of how I went from being a single mom to serving in the Texas State Senate ...
WENDY DAVIS
Let's make sure that we are working for age-appropriate sex education in our school system.
WENDY DAVIS
One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That'...
WENDY CRAIG
There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not goi...
WENDY COPE
The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour...
WENDY COPE
Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop...
WENDY COPE
In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot...
WENDY COPE
I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're g...
WENDY COPE
I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
WENDY COPE
Possibly I've become less funny as I've been happier.
WENDY COPE
I like a quiet life.
WENDY COPE
I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you ...
WENDY COPE
I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset ...
WENDY COPE
I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, ...
WENDY COPE
Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make t...
WENDY COPE
I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to...
WENDY COPE
I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you ca...
WENDY CARLOS
Composition has almost always been solitary.
WENDY CARLOS
A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
WENDY CARLOS
Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change...
WENDY DAVIS
Real Texans don't want any woman to die of cancer because she can't get decent health care o...
WENDY DAVIS
I look back, and I have no regrets, truly. Everything led me to the place where I am now.
WENDY WHELAN
Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to ...
WENDY DAVIS
Nothing nice you ever do for anyone is for no reason.
WENDY MASS
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
WENDY MASS
Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision tha...
WENDY KOPP
He was that driven, that smart. But he could not sit still within himself.
WENDY WALKER
Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
WENDY WASSERSTEIN
Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?"
All the time.
WENDY MASS
You need to be flagrantly insouciant.
You care way too much.
And because of that you will...
WENDY WUNDER
I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.
WENDY COPE