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"I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat."
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"Percy glanced over. He saw the fallen giant and seemed to understand what was happening. He yelled something that was lost in the wind, probably: Go!Then he slammed Riptide into the ice at his feet. The entire glacier shuddered. Ghosts fell to their knees. Behind Percy, a wave surged up from the bay-a wall of gray water even taller than the glacier. Water shot from the chasms and crevices in the ice. As the wave hit, the back half of the camp crumbled. The entire edge of the glacier peeled away, cascading into the void-carrying buildings, ghosts, and Percy Jackson over the edge."

"Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything."

"She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes."

"I don't expect to win every battle but I think Fred Pierce has enough respect for me that I can go fight my battles and win my share."

"It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same."

"The public relations warriors fought and lost Monte Carlo's Battle of the Magazine Covers."
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"It's absolutely fine to think of new ways of doing things, and I'm not just asking for the traditional reporter to look into our living rooms night after night."

"Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words."

"I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based."

"That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter."

"The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales."

"The BBC has the obligation to think big. And at the moment, that clarion call sounds an uncertain note to me."

"Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters."
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