There’s places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But the idea that people can easily just stand up and say ‘let’s just build a fence’ and be done with it and wipe our hands, and it’s going to secure the border, that’s not reality.

Competing in junior fencing requires lessons, equipment, and travel that may cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month, keeping talented athletes from wielding sabers or masks.

I went to Paris for a year in 1986 to study theatre; there was a lot of clowning around, buffoonery and fencing. It was then that my own style kind of blossomed.

All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue.

With sabre fencing, it’s important to have a strong core. I do an exercise called ‘the dead bug.’ You sit on the round side of a Bosu ball, lean back, extend one arm and the opposite leg, then switch.

You have to list all your special skills on a form when you get an agent. There’s fencing, stage combat, horse riding, motorbike riding, Spanish, French, German, whatever. I just ticked everything. I talk about 10 languages according to that form. I even ticked the extreme sports box.

I enjoyed trying everything. I’d never get a chance to try fencing or archery if it wasn’t for this. It was really fun experience.

I love waking up every single day and going to fencing practice in the morning and just working hard and setting those big goals one after another, and achieving them, and wanting to do it again and again and again. There’s no reason for me to stop.

But my view is that you need a system at the border. You need some fencing but you need technology. You need boots on the ground. And then you need to have interior enforcement of our nation‘s immigration laws inside the country. And that means dealing with the employers who still consistently hire illegal labor.

As a pirate, she once undressed a fencing instructor using only her sword!

The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.

Fencing made me feel for the first time like a winner.

I had Eondel teach me,” Raoden said. “Back when I was trying to find ways to prove that my father‘s laws were foolish. Eondel chose fencing becausehe thought it would be most useful to me, as a politician. I never figured I’d end up using it to keep my wife from slicing me to pieces.

I did quite a lot of fencing when I was a kid, I was a swimmer, and I played a lot of basketball. I was a fencer for Great Britain, but I only did that because I watched Robin Hood, Star Wars, Highlander and The Three Musketeers, and I wanted to emulate Richard Harris and the great British actors that I grew up watching.

There’s places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But the idea that people can easily just stand up and say, oh, let’s build a fence and be done with it, wipe our hands, it’s going to secure the border, that’s not reality.

Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.

He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress – or a nunnery.

I’ve been very physical my whole life. I’ve done a lot of ballet, fencing and karate, and everything.

When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.

Fencing is more a sport than a martial art. It would be like basing your knowledge of roman phalanx warfare on NFL football.

I belong to an improv group, I play cello, I have these phases – fencing, tae kwon do, baseball, ice hockey, boogie boarding in the summer, snowboarding in the winter.

The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.

Obviously, swimming is my strength, but I’m also good at fencing.

It’s always better to attack than to defend,” Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. “Always. Ye don’t win with defense–ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it!

You were taught how to do the things you needed to do. Dance, speech, fencing. They groomed people. If you were in a film, and the script wasn’t working for you, they brought in screenwriters and fixed the scripts.