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I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome. -- James Dickey
I like the dueling club scene, where Daniel and I fight with our wands. I thought it was a brilliant scene to shoot. I think the end product looked really good. -- Tom Felton
The dueling maturity levels in high school is such a source of comedy to me. I was always such a late developer. I was last to walk. I was last to ride a bike. I was last to have sex. That's why it's fun to portray one side of your childhood onscreen. -- Paul Feig
Bring back dueling, I say. Drive-by sword fight. -- Tim Roth
We should restore the practice of dueling. It might improve manners around here. -- Edward Abbey
That I was not dueling with the king, but trying to communicate with him, was itself an incommunicable fact. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
If all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be shed in that way. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Since bodily strength is but a servant to the mind, it were very barbarous and preposterous that force should be made judge over reason. -- Philip Sidney
Hammett gave murder back to the kind of people that commit it for reasons, not just to provide a corpse; and with the means at hand, not hand-wrought dueling pistols, curare and tropical fish. -- Raymond Chandler
Paul Taylor's 'Offenbach Overtures' has lots of zip and charm, and its pair of dueling soldiers in red, who end up starry-eyed about each other while their disgusted seconds take up the quarrel, is nonstop funny. -- Robert Gottlieb
I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley and Inigo dueling on the cliff-top. I had never held a sword in my life, but I phoned my mum and said, 'I want to learn to fence!' -- V. E. Schwab
My knowledge of pain, learned with the sabre, taught me not to be afraid. And just as in dueling when you must concentrate on your enemy's cheek, so, too, in war. You cannot waste time on feinting and sidestepping. You must decide on your target and go in. -- Otto Skorzeny
Horizontal hostility may be expressed in sibling rivalry or in competitive dueling which wrecks not only office tranquility or suburban domesticity but also some radical political groups and, it must be sadly said, some women's liberation groups. ... [it is] misdirected anger that rightly should be focused on the external causes of oppression. -- Florynce Kennedy
I wondered if that's what aging felt like. That desire and reality were dueling until the day you die, that nobody every got to a place of peace. I had always wanted to get old so I didn't have to care anymore, but I began to think that it would be best just to skip the getting older part and just die. -- Portia de Rossi

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