You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in a movie. A movie really has to choose its battles.
Walter Kirn
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Superior and inferior wage one hundred battles a day.
Han Fei
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There is an emerging subgenre of British nonfiction in which journalists from 'The Guardian' fearlessly recount their own derring-do in David-and-Goliath battles waged against omnipotent state interests in the pursuit of Big Important Truths.
Jo Becker
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For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
Sun Tzu
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I'm very much engaged in the political battles. But I'm doing it as a supporter of Republicans... rather than as an active candidate.
Mitt Romney
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You have to pick your battles on set.
Claire Danes
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My battles have been against federal actions that exceed the powers our Founders granted to the federal government in the constitution.
Scott Pruitt
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As a property developer, I learned a long time ago to choose your battles wisely and that, unfortunately, compromise is a given.
Kevin McCloud
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Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
George Orwell
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My goal is to show girls that I'm fighting so they don't have to, so they don't have to fight the same battles, so they don't have to fight for wage equality or whatever it may be.
Alex Morgan
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I went through a lot of battles in high school.
LeBron James
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Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
Gary Numan
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